Before Friday, the trillion-dollar mark was reserved for measures such as the GDP—or staggering debt burdens—of a handful of major economies, and, more recently, the market value of some of the world's largest publicly traded companies. Now, for the first time, that milestone belongs to an individual.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk's net worth now stands at a staggering $1.11 trillion—higher than the combined fortunes of the next four billionaires: Larry Page, co-founder of Google; Sergey Brin, who also co-founded Google; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The combined net worth stands at $1.089 trillion, while Musk’s worth alone is $1.11 trillion.
