Curiosity-driven deep dives into wealth, Elon Musk, and the absurdity of a trillion dollars.
From PayPal to Tesla to SpaceX — the unlikely chain of bets that turned a South African kid into the world's first (paper) trillionaire. We break down every major windfall.
Read more →A trillion dollars is a number so large the human brain struggles to process it. We visualize it with stacks of cash, football fields, and time analogies that finally make it click.
Read more →Elon, Bernard, Jeff, Mark... the billionaire leaderboard keeps shuffling. Here's the current top 10, their wealth sources, and how much of their money is actually liquid.
Read more →Spoiler: even at $1 million per second, it would take 12 days to burn through $1 trillion. We calculate the impossible burn rate and what you'd need to buy to achieve it.
Read more →Tesla's market cap swings by tens of billions on a single earnings call. Here's why Elon's fortune is essentially a leveraged bet on one electric car company.
Read more →At $350B+, SpaceX alone makes Elon a multi-billionaire. How did a rocket company become more valuable than Ford? The government contracts and Starlink revenue explained.
Read more →He bought it, renamed it, and lost most of its value. The X/Twitter acquisition is a masterclass in how NOT to spend billions. A timeline of the chaos.
Read more →Elon can't just walk into a bank and withdraw $1 trillion. Most of his wealth is locked in stock. We explain the difference between net worth and actual spending money.
Read more →End world hunger? Solve climate change? Buy every NFL team? We run the numbers on what a trillion dollars could accomplish if it weren't trapped in a spending simulator.
Read more →Mansa Musa, Augustus Caesar, Genghis Khan — history's richest rulers. How does Elon's $1 trillion stack up against the wealth of empires? (Hint: it's complicated.)
Read more →Politicians love to talk about taxing billionaires. But how would you even tax $1 trillion in mostly illiquid stock? We explore the practical (and impractical) approaches.
Read more →Elon wants to colonize Mars. We estimate the real price tag — from Starship launches to life support to the first Martian pizza delivery. It might be cheaper than you think.
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