Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world

Space-X Founder Elon Musk overtook Amazon C-E-O Jeff Bezo’s status as the world’s richest person. It happened Thursday as Tesla shares rose lifting the value of Musk’s stock by more than Nine-Billion dollars according to Bloomberg.

Someone could become very wealthy this weekend. Nearly one billion dollars is up for grabs between the two lottery jackpots. No one won Wednesday nights Powerball drawing which leads to Saturday’s jackpot jumping to at least four hundred and seventy million dollars.