Elon Musk, the world's richest person, has a net worth of around $239 billion, according to estimates by Bloomberg.
He went on to cofound online bank X.com in 1999. It soon merged with Peter Thiel's Confinity to become PayPal, and the company was bought for $1.5 billion by eBay in 2002. Despite having been ousted as CEO, Musk walked away with around $165 million. Musk said 2008 was"the worst year of my life." Alongside problems in his personal life, Tesla kept losing money and SpaceX was having trouble launching its Falcon 1 rocket. By 2009, Musk was living off personal loans.
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