Elon Musk's $182 billion losses, stemming from Tesla stock prices nosediving, are a Guinness World Record.
[Guinness World Records](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/elon-musk-suffers-worst-loss-of-fortune-in-history-amid-market-madness-731988), Musk has lost $182 billion since November 2021. Plaid is sickkk— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [relate to his tween nephew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98k05_bM2e4).
Elon Musk can now be proud of the fact that he's officially the record holder for the "largest loss of personal fortune in history."
According to Forbes, the wealth of billionaires across the globe dropped by nearly $2 trillion in 2022. But even if you give or take a couple billion, Musk's sky-high losses are easily clear of the previous record held by Korean-Japanese investor and Softbank CEO Masoyishi Son of $58.6 billion. [Sam Bankman-Fried](https://futurism.com/the-byte/crypto-billionaire-94-percent-wealth) and [Mark Zuckerberg](https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-stock-crash), to name a few. [safety](https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-autopilot-crashes-recall) and [marketing of its vehicles](https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-reportedly-criminal-investigation-self-driving) when Musk bought Twitter in October, a [maligned move](https://futurism.com/elon-musk-poll-twitter-resign) that came with its own [heaps](https://futurism.com/the-byte/squatter-elon-musk-paying-rent-twitter) [of](https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-leak-elon-musk-identity) [controversy](https://futurism.com/elon-musk-deleting-journalists-twitter), and Tesla only continued its downward spiral from there. [unloading billions of dollars worth of his Tesla shares](https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-unloads-billions-tesla-stock), but evidently that wasn't enough to prevent him from landing in the record books. [press release](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/elon-musk-suffers-worst-loss-of-fortune-in-history-amid-market-madness-731988) that "the exact figure is almost impossible to ascertain."
Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been named by Guinness World Records as suffering the greatest drop in personal fortune at $182 billion.
This took his total sales in shares of the company to $36 billion in a single year. Still want the job?” [Volkswagen](https://fortune.com/company/volkswagen/) joined [Pfizer](https://fortune.com/company/pfizer/) and [General Mills](https://fortune.com/company/general-mills/) in an [advertising exodus from the platform while it monitors how Twitter evolves.](https://fortune.com/2022/11/04/twitter-advertiser-exodus-deepens-volkswagen-pfizer-general-mills-pause-ad-spending/) Mobs of angry Tesla customers reportedly showed up at several Tesla showrooms across the country demanding some form of compensation for buying a new car at the older, higher prices. Arnault has an estimated net worth of $190 billion. [kicked off to a bumpy start after Musk slashed the price of two main model lines in China](https://fortune.com/2023/01/09/tesla-price-cuts-china-angry-mob-storm-showrooms-shaanxi/) in a bid to compete with rival [BYD](https://fortune.com/company/byd-2/).
The Tesla and Twitter boss has seen his fortune fall by $165bn (£135bn) since November 2021.
The firm "Long-term fundamentals [at Tesla] are extremely strong. Elon Musk has broken the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history.
Let that sink in!Elon Musk has lost so much money Guinness World Records has had to add the loss to the record books.The former richest man in the world ...
In the memo, It has been the electric carmaker’s worst year to date. [first person ever to lose $200 billion](https://www.joe.co.uk/news/elon-musk-lose-200-billion-372570) off his net worth, according to the [Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-30/elon-musk-becomes-first-person-ever-to-lose-200-billion?leadSource=uverify%20wall). In a press release on Friday, Guinness World Records (GWR) announced that the 51-year-old had broken the record for the “largest loss of personal fortune in history”. The former richest man in the world - and the second person to ever amass a personal fortune of more than $200 billion (Bezos was the first) - has reportedly become the [Elon Musk](https://www.joe.co.uk/joe/elon-musk) has lost so much money Guinness World Records has had to add the loss to the record books.
Twitter and Telsa Ceo, Elon Musk has broken the record for losing more money than any other human in history.
The amount that I torture myself is next level, frankly,” he added. Or is it just the mentality of literate people thinking that why bring babies in this already “overpopulated” world?” After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.” However, he later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. “Let’s try to be kinder. Let’s try to be more generous. The story states that the “court documents obtained by Insider show that the tech mogul Elon Musk quietly had twins last November with one of his top executives, Shivon Zilis. Let’s keep the faith. “I didn’t do it to help make more money. However, they then remarried the next year, and eventually divorced again in 2016. Elon Musk has broken the record for losing more money than any other human in history. You know, we are a family that have been doing a lot of things for a long time, it’s not as if we suddenly started doing something.”
According to Guinness World Records (GWR), Elon Musk has set a record for the biggest loss of personal riches in history.Musk also lost the title of world's ...
Musk sold $7 billion worth of Tesla stock to raise money for his plan to purchase Twitter, as well as another $4 billion in November. According to the website, even though it's very difficult to pinpoint the precise amount, Musk's overall losses much exceed the previous record of $58.6 billion, which was achieved by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son in 2000. Musk has lost close to $200 billion, citing Forbes' estimate that he has lost about $182 billion since November 2021.
Elon Musk's name is set to appear in the history books for breaking the Guinness World Record of losing the most wealth ever, CNBC reports.
Musk's fortune once sat as high as $320 billion in late 2021. The 53-year-old's wealth decline spared Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from taking the Guinness World Record. Elon Musk's name is set to appear in the history books for breaking the Guinness World Record of losing the most wealth ever, CNBC reports.
“Although the exact figure is almost impossible to ascertain, Musk's total losses far surpass the previous record of $58.6 billion, set by Japanese tech ...
Musk’s electric car company has suffered from unpredictable “short-term market madness”, according to Musk (in a 30 December tweet). Shareholders have been concerned that Musk has lost his focus on Tesla. He claims “long-term fundamentals are extremely strong”.
Guinness World Records says Elon Musk's $182 billion loss since November 2021 is the largest loss of personal fortune ever.
And it isn’t like he was the only super-rich person to lose money in the last 12-plus months; Forbes He covers stadiums, sneakers, gear, infrastructure, and more for a variety of publications, including Popular Mechanics. With so much of his personal wealth tied to Tesla stock, the ebbs and flows—or massive peaks and valleys—of short-term stock prices will dramatically impact Musk’s fortune. That stock didn’t fare so well in 2022, dropping 65 percent over the course of the year. [Elon Musk](https://www.popularmechanics.com/elon-musk-latest-news/)’s $182 billion loss since November 2021 is the [largest loss of personal fortune ever](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/elon-musk-suffers-worst-loss-of-fortune-in-history-amid-market-madness-731988). [just declared](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/elon-musk-suffers-worst-loss-of-fortune-in-history-amid-market-madness-731988) the 50 percent-plus drop the new record for the “largest loss of personal fortune in history.”
Elon Musk, once the richest man in the world, has now created a world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history, according to Guinness Wor.
His net worth dropped below $200 billion in November 2022 as investors got rid of Tesla shares over worries that he may be more focussed on Twitter. His net worth dropped from a peak of $320 billion in 2021 to $138 billion as of January 2023 due to poor performance of Tesla stocks. Musk sold Tesla stocks worth $7 billion as he was trying to buy out Twitter in 2022and the stocks ended in a 65% loss, according to Forbes.
With markets plunging, the past year has been rough for most investors. But one investor suffered the biggest loss of them all — Tesla CEO and Twitter owner ...
The tech billionaire has reportedly lost $182bn (£150bn) since November 2021, largely due to the drop in Tesla's share price.
Short-term market madness is unpredictable.” [Masayoshi Son](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/08/softbank-vision-funds-cuts-loss-arm) in 2000. [Guinness World Records](https://www.theguardian.com/world/guinness-world-records) report.
Musk's net worth has dropped from a peak of $320 billion in 2021 to $138 billion in January 2023 due to the poor performance of Tesla stocks. “It is almost ...
Last month, he sold another $3.58 billion worth of stock, taking his total sell-off to more than $23 billion since April. In the post, the organization cited Forbes’s estimate that Musk has lost around $182 billion since November 2021, though other sources indicate the figure is closer to $200 billion. Musk’s net worth has dropped from a peak of $320 billion in 2021 to $138 billion in January 2023 due to the poor performance of Tesla stocks.
Elon Musk, once the richest man in the world, has now created a world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history, according to Guinness ...
His net worth dropped from a peak of $320 billion in 2021 to $138 billion as of January 2023 due to poor performance of Tesla stocks. REUTERS/Steve Nesius/File Photo FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and chief engineer Elon Musk attends a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.