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Elon Musk, crowned the world's richest person on Thursday, has grand plans for his roughly $188 billion net worth.

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX plans to dedicate as much money as he can to colonizing Mars, and he's selling most of his material possessions in the process, the billionaire said last month in an interview with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider's parent company, Axel Springer.
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the billionaire also told Döpfner he was accumulating wealth not for material possessions but to eventually fund a colony on Mars.

"I think it is important for humanity to become a spacefaring civilization and a multiplanet species. And it's going to take a lot of resources to build a city on Mars," Musk said. "I want to be able to contribute as much as possible to the city on Mars. That means just a lot of capital."

To Musk, parting ways with his material possessions also signals that he's committed to going to Mars.
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The SpaceX founder has said he plans to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050 and build a fleet of 1,000 Starships to ferry them there. Musk aims to launch three of the 387-foot rockets SpaceX is developing for deep-space travel each day.