Elon Musk has amassed a staggering amount of wealth like we’ve never seen before.That may seem like hyperbole, but it’s true: The tech titan has a mind-boggling $839 billion net worth, according to Forbes’s annual World Billionaires List, making him the first person to surpass the $800 billion mark on his way to becoming the first trillionaire.Musk is perched atop the publication’s ranking for the second year in a row, and now his status has been cemented as the richest person ever recorded. As the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and A.I. start-up xAI, the CEO saw his net worth get a big push forward by half a trillion dollars last year, thanks to his E.V. company’s rising value and his space company’s potential to go public this year.And though things can change, Musk’s fellow billionaires have quite a ways to go to catch up. Google cofounder Larry Page sits at No. 2 on the ranking, with a net..
