Insight - Musk creates new model of 21st century billionaire

By DAVID RANDALL

Elon Musk

WITH a stable of businesses ranging from electric cars to private rocket ships, iconoclastic billionaire Elon Musk (pic) has become the richest person in the world by building a fortune firmly planted in 21st century technology.

With an all-cash US$43bil (RM182bil) offer to buy Twitter Inc, Musk may soon emulate the tycoons of the past by controlling a media platform that contributed to his rise to fame.

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