As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, when SpaceX goes public today, Elon Musk — already the richest person in the universe by several hundred billion dollars — is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire. But he’s not the only person whose bank account will be radically transformed by the IPO, which will value the company at something in the ballpark of $1.75 trillion. There are also SpaceX execs, rank and file workers, early investors, current and former Trump administration officials, universities, Hollywood moguls and more. Herewith, a guide to everyone that’s about to be a lot richer today than they were yesterday.
To put Musk’s anticipated trillionaire status in perspective, surpassing the four-comma mark would mean his net worth will be approximately five times that of the second-richest person in the world, Larry Page, whose total assets came in on Thursday at a comparatively paltry $284 billion. Another way to look at it: you’d have to add up the net worths of Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison to get to Musk’s wealth. Or, split evenly among the 14 Musk children we know of, roughly $70 billion a piece, though that number will likely come down given his pet project of repopulating the earth. Oxfam has called Musk’s soon-to-be trillionaire standing “a dark day for democracy” and noted that “not only does much of Musk’s fortune rest on past government support, but he also used his time in the Trump administration to protect and enlarge that wealth.”
