{"id":21750,"date":"2026-06-12T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-after-spacex-ipo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:36:23","slug":"elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-after-spacex-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-after-spacex-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk becomes world\u2019s first trillionaire after SpaceX IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a post on the social media platform he owns, Elon Musk recently lamented: “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about.”<\/p>\n

Now the world’s richest person can put that maxim to an even bigger test as he adds a new title: world’s first trillionaire.<\/p>\n

SpaceX shares opened at US$150 each, 11 per cent above their offering price after they began trading in New York on Friday, valuing the rocket and AI-company Musk founded at roughly US$2 trillion.<\/p>\n

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His fortune now stands at the once-unimaginable figure of almost US$1.05 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That is more than three times that of the world’s second-richest person, Google co-founder Larry Page.<\/p>\n

It was less than 10 years ago that Bloomberg’s wealth index registered its first fortune of more than US$100 billion – a milestone Musk blew past in 2020.<\/p>\n

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He has since come to dominate the ranks of the world’s richest, first as Tesla evolved into one of the all-time best-performing stocks and later as investors scrambled for a piece of Space Exploration Technologies Corp, as SpaceX is formally known, now among the world’s most valuable companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a post on the social media platform he owns, Elon Musk recently lamented: “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about.” Now the world’s richest person can put that maxim to an even bigger test as he adds a new title: world’s first trillionaire. SpaceX shares opened at US$150…<\/p>\n

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