The World’s First Trillionaire? 🇿🇦

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]A South African maybe on track to become the world's first trillionaire. You see, for years the idea of that felt like something you'd expect a couple hundred years from now, but you see Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO could change that. You see, reports suggest that the rocket giant could debut at a valuation of roughly 1.5 to 1.75 trillion [snorts] dollars, which means that Musk's stake in the company would push his overall net worth into the trillionaire category at at least on paper. Now, that's the key part here. This isn't Musk sitting on a vault of cash like Scrooge McDuck. Most of his wealth is tied up in equity, so ownership in companies whose value rise and falls with the market. And hey, SpaceX is no longer just being judged as a rocket company. Starting is one of its biggest financial engines. Its commercial launches still dominate globally, and investors are still betting on long-term moon, Mars, and AI infrastructure ambitions. Now, what makes this bigger than just another billionaire headline or trillionaire headline is how unusual the scale is.

[00:01:01]You see, Musk already sits across The Boring Company, Tesla, X, XAI, SpaceX. A lot of X's, but SpaceX could become the business that changes the wealth ceiling entirely, [music] which means that this trillionaire conversation no longer just feels like some distant prediction. It may now just depend on a stock listing.