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How Elon Musk Became The Richest Person In America In 2022 | Forbes
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3:22Now PlayingElon Musk couldn’t help but gloat. Last September, the day Musk overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world, Forbes reached out to the man behind Tesla and SpaceX for his thoughts.
“I’m sending a giant statue of the digit ‘2’ to Jeffrey B.,” Musk wrote in a short email, “along with a silver medal.”
The swap at the top came 24 days after last year’s Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans was finalized on September 3, 2021 and now, one wild year later, Musk can finally claim his gold: He is No. 1 on The Forbes 400 for the first time this year, with an estimated net worth of $251 billion–$60.5 billion more than he had on last year’s ranking and $100 billion richer than Bezos. That’s also a record for No. 1 on The Forbes 400.
The Forbes 400 is our annual ranking of the richest Americans. Our estimates are a snapshot of each member’s wealth as of September 2, 2022. For a detailed methodology and an explanation of our philanthropy score and self-made score, please see forbes.com/forbes-400. Daily updated net worths are available at forbes.com/real-time-billionaires.
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