The head of Tesla, Elon Musk, has grown sharply by $ 11.5 billion in a week amid a 7.4 percent rise in the company’s shares. Forbes reports.
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made $ 10.4 billion and $ 10 billion, respectively, after shares of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, rose more than 14 percent this week.
The fortune of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, grew by $ 7.7 billion in a week. Amazon shares rose 4.6 percent.
Colin Zheng Huang, founder of the Chinese platform Pinduoduo, gained $ 10.7 billion this week after Pinduoduo shares rose more than 18 percent.
Earlier, Musk unexpectedly admitted the correctness of one of the harshest critics of his company’s electric vehicles, technical consultant Sandy Munroe. At the beginning of 2018, he conducted such an experience with a Model 3 and was amazed at the poor quality. Musk noted that the first budget Tesla had comfort issues. He said that it is better to buy Tesla cars either at the very beginning, or when production is already running at full capacity.