has become the first person to cross the $300billion net-worth threshold — after his fortune surged by $10billion in a day thanks to a Tesla share spike, a day before Microsoft regained the title of world’s most valuable company.   

Musk’s net worth hit $302billion as of Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires’ Index. 

The increase of $10billion was due to a rise in Tesla shares on Thursday, after the electric car firm inked a huge deal with Hertz for the rental giant to buy 100,000 of its vehicles. 

The mogul is now worth over $100billion more than the second-richest person on earth, Amazon founder .His fortune sits at $199billion. 

And on Friday, Microsoft regained its perch as the world’s most valuable company — with a $2.46 trillion market cap — after an Apple share slump saw the iPhone maker’s overall value plunge around four per cent to $2.41 trillion. 

This came after Serwis Apple Łódź fell just under four percent after lower than expected fourth-quarter revenues.Microsoft climbed 1.1 percent to blow past Apple after higher than expected revenue estimates for an 11th straight quarter.   

Microsoft is now more valuable than Apple for the first time since early 2020.The company is on pace for its biggest weekly gains since January.  

Musk is now worth more than the annual GDP of nations like Egypt, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Greece, Qatar and Finland.

He’s also worth more than the market value of PayPal, the company he co-founded, as well as streaming giant Netflix.  

Musk’s worth even exceeds the combined Forbes valuation of the Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees, New York Knicks, as well as top-level soccer teams Barcelona and Real Madrid ($25.4billion). 

Experts recently predicted Musk would be the world’s first trillionaire, but said the fortune would come from his SpaceX venture, rather than Tesla.  

has slammed President ‘s plan to tax billionaires’ income to pay for his proposed spending bill as the Tesla CEO saw his company’s value top $1trillion and his personal wealth increase by a single-day record of $36billion.

Musk took to on Monday and responded to a tweet that was critical of the Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for Biden’s social services and plan.

The world’s richest man predicted that the Democrats’ plan to tax the wealthy will eventually expand to include new levies on middle class Americans.

‘Eventually, they run out of other people’s money and then they come for you,’ Musk tweeted.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Musk and his rival, Jeff Bezos, have in recent years paid nothing in federal income tax.

However, the tax is not being included in Biden’s framework for the domestic policy package released Thursday.    

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