Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire.That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable. Before Friday, the trillion dollar mark was reserved for measures like the GDP (or staggering debt) of a handful of major economies – and, in the last decade alone, the value of some of the biggest companies to ever trade on the stock market.Musk’s new title arrives amid a wider acceleration for the richest of the rich.Year after year, his former (although now very distant) billionaires club has reaped a growing number of members – from tech titans to celebrities.All the while, more and more people worldwide are struggling to pay their everyday bills. Many have decried the arrival of the first trillionaire as the latest and most alarming example of that wealth gap.People protest against the SpaceX IPO in New York on Friday. Photo: EPAThe number “1 trillion” is hard in itself for the human mind to comprehend. One trillion dollars is a thousand times greater than US$1 billion. And a million times more than US$1 million.
Musk is world’s first trillionaire – what could he buy with all that money?
The SpaceX boss has reached a level of wealth that is hard to understand in real terms. But we’re going to try.
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Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX's IPO, concentrating $1 trillion in a single founder. This reflects accelerating wealth consolidation among tech titans, reshaping venture capital allocation and M&A dynamics.
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