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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Piyush Shukla

Elon Musk Net Worth: From $788,800,000,000 today to a possible $1,000,000,000,000 after SpaceX IPO— How much would each of his 14 children get?

Elon Musk's net worth in June 2026 has reached $788.8 billion, widening the gap between him and every other person on earth. Forbes' real-time tracker confirmed the figure on June 8, 2026, keeping Musk firmly at the top of the 2026 Billionaires List. What is striking is not just the scale of this wealth — it is the speed at which it is growing. With SpaceX's IPO reportedly set to launch within days and the combined entity valued at $1.77 trillion, analysts now openly debate whether Musk will become the world's first trillionaire within the year.

That trajectory is almost impossible to absorb without context. One trillion dollars is one million million. Spending $1 million every single hour, without sleeping, without stopping, would still take more than a century to exhaust $1 trillion.

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