Elon Musk's $182 billion net worth drop breaks Guinness World Record

Elon Musk tin adhd a caller rubric to his resume: Guinness World Record holder.

The "Technoking" of Tesla made it into the grounds books acknowledgment to an abysmal 2022 which saw his luck shrink by $182 billion, the enactment announced Friday successful a release that cited information from Forbes.

Guinness noted that though "the nonstop fig [of Musk's loss] is astir intolerable to ascertain," with immoderate outlets estimating that helium mislaid more than $200 billion, the Twitter proprietor demolished the erstwhile record: a $58.6 cardinal nonaccomplishment by Japanese capitalist Masayoshi Son successful 2000.

Musk's shrinking fortune was mostly owed to the steep descent of Tesla shares, which mislaid astir 65% of their worth during the company's worst twelvemonth connected record.

The nonaccomplishment was capable to sound him disconnected his perch arsenic the richest antheral successful the satellite — a rubric present held by luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault.

Of course, Musk isn't the lone billionaire whose luck took a deed successful 2022. American billionaires collectively mislaid $660 cardinal past year, CNBC Make It antecedently reported.