Musk has more than twice the wealth of Buffett and $100 billion more than Bezos

How rich is Elon Musk?

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s net worth is now around a stratospheric $300 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time ranking of the world’s richest people.

That means Musk, 50, has a more than $100 billion lead over runner-up Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of Musk’s space rival Blue Origin.

The superlatives don’t stop there. Musk, Twitter’s newest board member, has more than twice the wealth of legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, who started investing in 1941 when he was 11. Net worth now stands at “only” around $125 billion.

Musk also has significantly more than the combined fortunes of former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates ($136 billion) and Steve Ballmer ($100 billion). The same goes for Google co-founders Larry Page ($120 billion) and Sergey Brin ($115 billion).

Musk is a sports fan? He could buy all 32 National Football League teams (currently worth more than $112 billion, according to data site Sportico) and still have nearly $190 billion left over.

And Musk has only about $35 billion less than the gross domestic product of his native South Africa, whose GDP is $335 billion, according to the World Bank. Musk’s net worth exceeds the GDPs of Colombia, Finland. Pakistan, Chile and Portugal.

Musk is clearly in uncharted territory when it comes to wealth. He is the richest person of all time, according to Forbes.

Still, some historical experts argue that other 19th and 20th century American industrialists such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, as well as monarchs and rulers like Mansa Musa of the 13th century Mali Empire and Augustus Caesar – who reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14 – may have had more wealth by adjusting for inflation.