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Elon Musk, the World's First Trillionaire

The week the SpaceX IPO pushed Elon Musk past a trillion dollars, his fortune topped the world's ten richest and exceeded the next four combined.

Dark leaderboard bar chart titled 'The World's 10 Richest People,' net worth as of June 12, 2026. Each row pairs a circular portrait with a horizontal bar, ranked top to bottom. Elon Musk sits at No. 1 with a single long gold bar reaching $1.1T, far longer than any other. Below him in muted slate bars: Larry Page ($294B), Sergey Brin ($271B), Jeff Bezos ($249B), Larry Ellison ($232B), Michael Dell ($225B), Mark Zuckerberg ($195B), Jensen Huang ($177B), Bernard Arnault ($157B), and Warren Buffett ($144B). Musk's gold bar is longer than the next four slate bars laid end to end.

After the IPO of SpaceX, Elon Musk became the first trillionaire on June 12, 2026. At $1.1 trillion he is worth more than the next four people on the list combined: Larry Page (No. 2), Sergey Brin (No. 3), Jeff Bezos (No. 4), and Larry Ellison (No. 5), who together hold about $1.05 trillion.