Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire

Elon Musk's net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after Space X's IPO. His net worth, which was hovering around $800 billion before the IPO, includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in Space X, along with his wealth from his other companies, like Tesla. Shares of SPCX opened at $150 and have remained well above the $138 benchmark that gives Musk a 13-figure net worth. Space X combined Musk's rocket, AI, and social media platforms earlier this year, and said in its S-1 that its goal is to "build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light … Read the full story at The Verge.