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The Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur is now worth £136billion. Last month, he overtook Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, as the world's richest person. Both Musk and Bezos have seen their portfolios grow over the pandemic, a fact in stark contrast to the millions of workers around the world struggling to keep afloat as the coronavirus bites.