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Elon Musk breaks Guinness World Record for largest loss of fortune

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It鈥檚 official: Elon Musk has now shattered the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history, according to the (GWR). His loss is up to US$124 billion more than the previous record.

Since November 2021, he has lost around US$182 billion, according to Forbes. In a blog post, GWR says that while 鈥渢he exact figure is almost impossible to ascertain,鈥 other sources suggest the lost amount is closer to US$200 billion, surpassing by far the previous record set by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son -- who, in 2000, lost US$58.6 billion.

Masayoshi Son鈥檚 net worth declined from a peak of US$78 billion to US$19.4 billion in July of 2000 as a result of the volatility and plummeting value of his tech conglomerate, Softbank, GWR said.

Forbes estimates that Musk鈥檚 net worth, largely affected by poor performance of Tesla鈥檚 stock, plummeted from US$320 billion in 2021 to US$138 billion as of January 2023.

鈥淟ong-term fundamentals are extremely strong. Short-term market madness is unpredictable,鈥 Musk tweeted on Dec. 30, 2022.

With the vast majority of Musk鈥檚 fortune hinged to Tesla stock, the 65 per cent drop in the company鈥檚 value in 2022 was another black eye in a storm of financial woes that knocked off his status as the world鈥檚 richest person. (The title now goes to Bernarn Arnault, founder of Louis Vuitton Mo毛t Hennessy, who has an estimated net worth of US$190 billion.)

Musk鈥檚 steep descent kicked off in October 2022,when he purchased Twitter for approximately US$44 billion.

Despite such a drastic decline of wealth, Musk won鈥檛 starve.

He remains the world鈥檚 second-richest person.

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