Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has made him the world’s first trillionaire. His fortune is now estimated at over $1.3 trillion. This is more than four times the wealth of the world’s second-richest man, Alphabet co-founder Larry Page (estimated at $300 billion).
A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable. It possesses an almost magical power, like a religious incantation or forbidden word.
