Elon Musk has passed up Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person.
The 49-year-old Tesla CEO swept by the Amazon CEO as the top billionaire according to Bloomberg News.
As of Thursday, Musk is worth more than 188 billion dollars as Tesla shares reached a record high of over 811 dollars a piece.
That's around 1.5 billion more than Bezos.
The report is based off of Musk's Tesla stocks and unrealized paper gains on vested stock options.
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