Elon Musk is now a trillionaireElon Musk is now a trillionaire

After a needless to say eventful week, Elon Musk is now a trillionaire, having added some $274 billion to his net worth through last Thursday alone, and $351 billion to his net worth year to date, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 

• That makes Musk more than 3x richer than the next man on the list, Google cofounder Larry Page. He’s nearly 4x richer than Jeff Bezos, and possesses nearly 10x the wealth of Bill Gates. 
• As recently as 2024, the richest man on Earth had about $200 billion, and the title shifted between Musk, Bezos, and Bernard Arnault. In 2025, a rally in Oracle briefly made CEO Larry Ellison the richest man on the planet.**** 
• Having blasted off to a trillion dollars, and with all rivals far in his Tesla’s rearview mirror, Musk is now in an entirely novel echelon of wealth. 
• If you spent $27,000 a day for 100 years, you would spend about a billion dollars over that century. A trillionaire could do $27 million per day for that century. 

The ancient Egyptians believed that the measure of a person’s worth was calculated upon their death when Anubis, god of the afterlife, would weigh their heart against a feather to see if a heavy heart would be fed to Ammit, the Devourer of Souls. Here in America, we do things a little differently, where the measure of worth is the net present value of future cash flows, and in lieu of Anubis, we delegate that task to the market. As it stands now, by our ancient rites and customs, Elon Musk is the first trillion-dollar man.

The Takeaway

Sure, you might say, a trillion dollars is a lot of money, but that’s a paper trillion, the amount backed by voluminous stock holdings and not actually spendable. But given the ample number of people lining up around the block to offer credit vehicles and capital to the richest man in the world already, the line won’t be around the block so much as to the moon and back to offer money to a man who is 3x richer than his closest rival. It’s Musk’s world, and we’re just in it.