In the coming weeks, Elon Musk's space and AI company SpaceX is expected to go public, a listing expected to be the largest of its kind ever. Elon Musk, who founded the company in 2002, remains the majority owner, and The Wall Street Journal notes that the IPO could mean that Musk will now become the world's first dollar trillionaire, that is, with a fortune of more than a trillion dollars.
The newspaper estimates that Musk's fortune is already over $970 billion, 31 years after he founded his first company. This means that in that time, Musk has earned almost $60,000 a minute. That's $85.7 million a day, or a staggering $2.6 billion a month.
With his fortune, according to the newspaper, he could buy 2.4 million residential buildings in the United States, or 10,000 private aircraft, and would also be able to cover fuel expenses for five years.
If Musk is interested in sports, the money would be enough to buy all 32 teams in the NFL, plus all the teams in the NBA. Musk would still have $500 billion left over for chips and soda when he wanted to check out the games of his 62 sports clubs.
But even from a global economic perspective, Musk's fortune stands out. $970 billion is more than the annual GDP of 125 countries (including Sweden and Norway), the newspaper notes.
