Elon Musk is probably wealthier than you think. Here's how the world's richest person acquired so much wealth.

For Musk, the world’s richest man and Tesla’s largest shareholder, those are just paper losses. He owns and runs several other companies — among them SpaceX, Twitter, and artificial intelligence startup xAI — so Tesla’s recent decline is just a flesh wound.

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