Elon Musk is starting the new year off strong. On Monday, the twitter-savvy mogul added $32.6 billion to his net worth. Musk’s fortune stands at $304.2 billion, Forbes estimates, once again putting him back above the $300 billion threshold.
Musk, who is Tesla’s CEO and owns about 15.6% of its stock, continues to sell shares. In late December, he closed out the year by unloading nearly 3 million shares on the open market to cover the tax bills on some 5.7 million stock options he simultaneously exercised. Musk
for 2021, which could place him among the biggest individual U.S. taxpayers ever. He sold 15.7 million Tesla shares, worth more than $16 billion , over the course of the year.
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