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

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The "Technoking" of Tesla made it into the record books thanks to an abysmal 2022 which saw his fortune shrink by $182 billion, the organization announced Friday in a release that cited data from Forbes.Guinness noted that although "the exact figure [of Musk's loss] is almost impossible to ascertain," with some outlets estimating that he lost more than $200 billion, the Twitter owner demolished the previous record: a $58.6 billion loss by Japanese investor Masayoshi Son in 2000.The loss was enough to knock him off his perch as the richest man in the world — a title now held by luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault.The 53-year-old's wealth decline spared Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from taking the Guinness World Record.Fellow tech CEO Mark Zuckerberg also broke Masayoshi Son's record with his $78 billion loss."

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