From the first million to half a trillion .. How did Elon Musk made his legendary wealth?

The wealth of US billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has reached an unprecedented level of $ 500 billion on Wednesday, according to the immediate “Forbes” index of billionaires, to become half the way from the title of the first trillion in the world.

The wealth that fluctuated a little to settle at $ 499.1 billion, reflects an exceptional boarding journey that started from the first million achieved by Musk after the sale of his emerging company Zip2 in 1999 for $ 22 million, to the establishment of Paypal and then Spacex, and his early investment in Tesla in 2004. Over the passage of years, Musk Tesla turned from a troubled company into a giant of electric cars, and launched ambitious projects such as Neuralink and The Boring Company, as well as the renames of Twitter to X and merged it into its plans to build “application of everything”. Today, the value of its shares: 12% of Tesla = 191 billion dollars. 42% of SpaceX = 168 billion dollars. The world’s riches, ahead of Larry Ellison ($ 350.7 billion) and Mark Zuckerberg (245.8 billion dollars). According to Forbes, the world’s first trillion mask may become by March 2033 if the growth of his companies continues in this way.