As the company’s share price rose continuously, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s net wealth surpassed social networking company Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, becoming the world’s third richest person .

For Musk, 49, he has experienced many extraordinary things in the last few days. His new crown virus test turned positive, his rocket company sent four astronauts into space, and Tesla was approved to be included in the S&P 500 index on Monday local time.

On Monday, local time on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, Tesla's share price closed at $408.09, a 15% increase in after-hours trading that day. According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, on Tuesday, local time, Tesla's stock price reached $460 in premarket trading, which allowed Musk's wealth to increase by $11.8 billion to $114 billion. Since the beginning of this year, his wealth has increased from less than US$90 billion to US$114 billion, making him the fastest-growing wealthy man in the world's 500 richest list.

According to Forbes magazine’s latest 500 list of the world’s richest people, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) is $182.1 billion, Microsoft founder Bill Gates (Bill Gates) is $114.8 billion, LVMH chief Executive Bernard Arnault (Bernard Arnault) is $113.4 billion, and Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) is $93.9 billion.

On Tuesday, Tesla's stock price rose by $33.52 to close at $441.61, an increase of 8.21%. In after-hours trading that day, the company's stock price fell by US$3.31 to US$438.30 per share, a decrease of 0.75%. As of Tuesday, Tesla's market value reached 418.603 billion US dollars.

After months of speculation and a temporary setback, Tesla will finally enter the S&P 500 index on December 21.

Last Saturday, Musk tweeted that he was "probably" already a moderately COVID-19 patient with symptoms of a "mild cold". But on Sunday, he again tweeted that he had no symptoms. On the same day, Musk’s space exploration technology company Spacex made a vehicle that sent four astronauts into the International Space Station. (Tianmen Mountain)

Source: NetEase Technology Report, translated by Google Translate