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Tesla’s Hidden Billionaire: How a Retail Trader Made $7 Billion

Singapore-based Leo KoGuan — who picked up stock trading in 2019 — has quietly amassed one of the single biggest stakes in Elon Musk’s company.

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From a penthouse overlooking the pale blue Singapore Strait, a discreet billionaire made a startling claim: he’d quietly amassed one of the single biggest stakes in Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc.

“I believe in Elon’s great mission,” Leo KoGuan told the world via Twitter.