Elon Musk in Colorado in 2022.
Elon Musk is worth an estimated $822.3 billion, according to Forbes, making him the richest person in the world, and that fortune could hit $1 trillion when SpaceX lists or – at the current exchange rate of R16.26 – R16.26 trillion.
For context, global gross domestic product is $126 trillion.
The South African-born entrepreneur has built a fortune so large that some analysts believe he could become the first person in history to be worth more than $1 trillion if SpaceX proceeds with a public listing at the valuations currently being discussed.
But Musk’s wealth was not built through a single company. Instead, it was accumulated over three decades through a series of increasingly ambitious ventures, with each success funding the next.
