Musk’s Trillion Is Worth 7 Warren Buffetts or 41 Years of NASA

As recently as the summer of 2024, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault were swapping the title of world’s richest person on a near-daily basis, with net worths hovering around $200 billion.

Now, not even two years later, Musk, 54, has amassed the world’s first trillion-dollar fortune, worth twice as much as Bezos and Arnault put together.

Just how rich is a trillionaire? A billion dollars is hard to grasp: enough to spend $27,000 a day over a 100-year lifetime. A trillion dollars is practically impossible to imagine — equivalent to about $27 million per day for a ...