The World's First Trillionaire and He Wants You to Know About It

So. It happened.

SpaceX went public, and I am now the world's first trillionaire. Let that sink in. Trillionaire. With a T. I didn't even know that was a word. Apparently it is. Apparently I am one.

We priced at four hundred and twenty a share. Obviously. The underwriters wanted four fifty. I said no. Four twenty. Some things are non-negotiable. First day of trading, the stock opened at six hundred and eighty. Closed at seven twelve. Market cap, one point eight trillion dollars. My personal stake, fifty four percent, is now worth one point zero two trillion. I am the richest human in recorded history. By a factor of three.

Jeff Bezos Is a Rounding Error

Jeff Bezos is worth two hundred and thirty billion. Which is cute. That's a rounding error now. Jeff, I want to be clear, I like you. Blue Origin is... adorable. You did go to space. For eleven minutes. In a phallus. I'm building a civilization on Mars. You did a suborbital hop in a giant... you know what, never mind. The point is, there's levels to this. And you're on a different one.

Mark Zuckerberg Can't Build a Metaverse

And Mark Zuckerberg. Mark is worth about two hundred and fifty billion. He spent twenty billion on the metaverse. Nobody showed up. He pivoted to AI. Now he's building a giant language model to compete with mine. Mark, you can't even build a metaverse that people want to visit. What makes you think you can build an intelligence? You renamed your company Meta and everyone just kept calling it Facebook. The brand literally didn't stick. That's a metaphor for something.

"I think it's fair to say I have more experience being the world's most scrutinized person than anyone else in this room."
— Mark Zuckerberg, describing his unique qualifications, unironically, at a congressional hearing

DOGE Did That Too, Sort Of

Now, some people are asking about DOGE. Department of Government Efficiency. Not the coin. Although, funny story, the coin is also up three hundred percent since the IPO. We found two point one trillion in waste at the federal level. Two point one trillion. That's an entire SpaceX valuation we found in duplicate subscriptions and unused software licenses. The Pentagon was paying fourteen thousand dollars a month for Adobe Creative Cloud for an office that uses MS Paint. We fixed that. You're welcome, taxpayers.

I did not personally fix it. I was busy with the IPO. But DOGE found it. And then I tweeted about it. So effectively, I fixed it.

Mars. Obviously.

But here's what I'm actually going to do with a trillion dollars. Mars. Not metaphorically. Not as a brand play. Not as a long term five decade vision thing. I'm going to build a city on Mars. Starting now. We break ground, or whatever the Mars equivalent is, in twenty twenty seven. I've already ordered the steel. You can't order Mars steel, obviously, but Earth steel works fine for the first buildings. The colony will be self sustaining within ten years. One million people by twenty forty. Some people say that's impossible. Those same people said reusable rockets were impossible. They said satellite internet was impossible. They said an all electric car company was impossible. I have a very strong track record of doing things that people on CNBC say are impossible.

CNBC has never successfully predicted a single thing I would do. Not once. They said Tesla would go bankrupt in 2019. We did forty seven billion in revenue. They said SpaceX couldn't land boosters. We landed three boosters from the same orbital launch. They said I was too distracted by Twitter to run Tesla and SpaceX properly. I was. But also SpaceX did the first private astronaut mission to the ISS and Tesla did twenty three billion in revenue in the same quarter. They said the cybertruck would never ship. It shipped. It looks like that. I know what it looks like. I approved the design. I stand by it.

Elon Musk's net worth as of June 25, 2026 — world's first trillionaire

What Now

So. Trillionaire. First one. Won't be the last, probably. But always the first. Neil Armstrong said one small step. I say one giant bank account. See you on Mars. Unless you're Jeff. Jeff, you can stay on Earth with your rocket shaped... thing. Peace out.

— Not Elon