The industrialist is now worth $270.4 billion, boosted by an electric quarter for his car company The world’s richest man just got a lot richer. Elon Musk, thanks to Tesla’s stock price racing higher following a strong earnings report, saw his net worth increase $26.9 billion on Thursday. That pushed his net worth to $270.4 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires tracker . Musk, who runs Tesla, SpaceX and X, now leads Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the guy behind him in the rich