Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX went public on Friday.

His combined wealth from Tesla and SpaceX stock now totals $1.26 trillion in paper assets.

To put the sum in perspective, spending $1 million every hour would take more than a century to exhaust $1 trillion.

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Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX, his rocket and AI company, went public on Friday. It’s a staggering amount of wealth never seen before in the history of human commerce.