How Large Is Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune? Spend It Yourself
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On any given day, Elon Musk is worth about a trillion dollars.
Key facts
- But if he were to cash those out, sell Neuralink and the Boring Company, and scrounge together some extra change, his checking account would hit 13 digits
- Trillion” sounds like a short hop from “billion,” after all, even though it is in fact 1,000 times bigger
- Spend Elon Musk’s Money is a new visualization that lets you, well, spend Elon Musk’s money, on anything from Big Macs to aircraft carriers to the Las Vegas Sphere
- The reporter has been running it since the reporter was 19, and it’s kind of a catalog of everything the reporter is interested in: visualizations, science, weird game mechanics
Summary
“Trillionaire” is an easy enough word to say. “Trillion” sounds like a short hop from “billion,” after all, even though it is in fact 1,000 times bigger. WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal, the proprietor of the consistently delightful website Neal.fun, to do that. WIRED spoke with Agarwal about this new project, why it feels so relevant now, and the state of building things on the web.