In addition to Tesla, Link also held a 16.5% stake in Twitter and owned 450,000 shares of Amazon stock.
Currently, Twitter has not gone public, but after three rounds of financing, its market value has reached 1.8 billion US dollars, making the 16.5% stake worth approximately 280 million.
This year, Amazon shook off the impact of the financial crisis with its stock price rising from 336 US dollars at the beginning of the year to 396 now, bringing its market value to 68.8 billion US dollars.
The 450,000 shares of Amazon were worth around 182 million US dollars.
Together, these assets brought his net worth to around 1.2 billion US dollars, neither the 1 billion mentioned by The Wall Street Journal nor the 1.5 billion estimated by the New York Post.