Elon Musk: World’s Richest Man
- InkSociety
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min read
By Jacob Kim
Rowland High School
Elon Musk has been declared the richest man after beating Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. On January 7th, Elon Musk passed Bezos by $1.5 billion and worth a net $188.5 billion. Elon Musk is known for being the CEO of Tesla, working with NASA to launch Space X, founding Paypal, and more. These projects and businesses helped boost Elon Musk to being the man he has become today.

Elon Musk has been a prodigy for a while now. Tesla’s market capitalization has been skyrocketing ever since January 2020. Because of his success, he even passed Bill Gates in November 2020 with $128 billion. His fame was great, however it was bad as well. There are still many billionaires capable of rising up against him. This didn’t stop Musk from still improving. After passing Bezos, Amazon has been dipping. This is how Musk became the richest man. Two high school students giving their input about Elon Musk. First, Kenneth Yang, a 12th grader at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, stated his view on Elon Musk, “My thoughts are probably that he in some way got what he aimed for? Tesla is a famous and innovative company that he has managed to recover during COVID even after just making a factory in China when the lockdown started. In some cases though, there were parts where he has made himself an internet sensation in other ways. However, overall he is an intelligent and creative thinker and businessman.” Secondly, Sean Son, a 10th grader at Troy High School, also stated his thoughts about Musk, “I think that Elon Musk being the richest man is not going to impact individuals like me much, but for the future of science, his money will be able to help a large amount.” Both of these students clearly give their respect to Elon Musk for his accomplishments, however they both mention that he has made some mistakes. Elon Musk is viewed as someone capable of helping the world with his money. However, he is also seen as a bad person because of his fame and mistakes.
Overall, Elon Musk deserves to be seen more positively than negative. He has done more good than bad. Elon Musk’s companies and businesses too hopefully make a huge impact on the world. Also, since he’s the richest man on the planet, who knows if anyone will ever surpass him? If you were able to surpass him, what would you do with all that money and fame?
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