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Elon Musk Is Worth Over $250 Billion, New Analysis Predicts He'll Be A Trillionaire By 2024
https://www.iflscience.com ^ | MARCH 28, 2022 | Tom Hale

Posted on 03/28/2022 10:56:30 AM PDT by Red Badger

Elon Musk, the richest human in the known universe, is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire.

As of March 28, 2022, Musk has a net worth of $256 billion, according to Bloomberg. A recent analysis by Tipalti Approve found that the SpaceX founder’s fortunes are currently undergoing an annual increase of up to 129 percent, which could potentially see him own a net worth of $1.38 trillion ($1,380 billion) by 2024 at age 52.

To reach their findings, the recent analysis by Tipalti Approve looked at the net worth of the top 30 people on the Forbes Rich List and recorded the last six years of data from current standings back to 2017.

This isn't the first time this prediction of Musk making history has been made. Just last year, analysts from Morgan Stanley forecasted that Musk is set to reach trillionaire status very shortly, primarily as a result of his booming space exploration business SpaceX.

The world’s richest person is usually listed as Musk or Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, depending on how their stocks and shares are doing in that particular period. However, Bezos is not forecasted to become the second-ever trillionaire according to Tipalti Approve.

That title goes to Gautam Adani, an Indian billionaire industrialist who founded Adani Group, a multi-pronged conglomerate involved in port management, energy production, mining, food processing, and more. Currently valued at around $93 billion, Adani and his family's coffers are set to swell to $1 trillion by 2025.

Next set to receive trillionaire status is Zhang Yiming, the Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded ByteDance, better known as TikTok. Then it will be Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of the world's largest luxury goods company, LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, followed by Mukesh Ambani, the largest shareholder of conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd.

As per this new analysis, Bezos is predicted to become the world’s sixth trillionaire around 2030. Mark Zuckerberg is predicted to hit trillionaire status in 2034 at age 49. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft who was the world's richest person from 1995 to 2017, isn’t expected to reach the trillionaire mark until 2044, at which time he’ll be 88 years of age.

Meanwhile, as the wealth of these few hyper-rich individuals continues to skyrocket, after 25 years of extreme poverty steadily declining, 2020 saw global extreme poverty rise for the first time in over 20 years, largely due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed countries are also feeling the sting, with poverty and inequality forecasted to increase across Europe and North America due to COVID-19. Furthermore, climate change is estimated to push up to 132 million people into poverty by 2030.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; History; Society
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; spacex; starlink; tesla
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1 posted on 03/28/2022 10:56:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
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“primarily as a result of his booming space exploration business SpaceX.”

Huh? Where is the profit from that? Are that many people lining up to fly in it?


2 posted on 03/28/2022 10:58:01 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Red Badger

Well one good thing, at least he isn’t a flaming Marxist sh— bag like Bozos


3 posted on 03/28/2022 10:58:45 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Red Badger

“Mark Zuckerberg is predicted to hit trillionaire status in 2034 at age 49.”

I highly doubt Fartbook will even exist in 2034 and Zuckerturd is too stupid to expand into other areas.


4 posted on 03/28/2022 11:00:11 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Red Badger
Mark Zuckerberg is predicted to hit trillionaire status in 2034 at age 49.

If current inflation rates continue, that should be just enough to get 6 gallons of petrol.
5 posted on 03/28/2022 11:00:11 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Red Badger

Pocahontas can’t wait to get her hands on some of that wampum if the Democrats get a wealth tax passed into law.


6 posted on 03/28/2022 11:01:19 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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If I had that kind of FU money, I would spend my life doing things that take down demonrats and deny them wealth and resources


7 posted on 03/28/2022 11:03:02 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Red Badger

He is a piker.

The Germans had wheel barrows full of money, the used money to cook muffins.


8 posted on 03/28/2022 11:03:45 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

SpaceX is the only US entity that can fly astronauts into orbit (even NASA cannot), and the major provider of cargo/satellite services as well. This business only will grow, especially with Starship coming online soon.


9 posted on 03/28/2022 11:05:26 AM PDT by billakay
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To: Red Badger

Goody goody. Maybe he will out spend the Democrats and buy the 2024 election.


10 posted on 03/28/2022 11:07:25 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

I’m sure that Elon would part with a billion or two to find a woman who won’t leave him. Maybe Natasha Bassett is the one?


11 posted on 03/28/2022 11:09:24 AM PDT by devere
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I think SpaceX is ancillary. When Musk makes Starlink public, that will become the golden goose. As Ukraine is now a test market for fast deployment and bypassing censoring, a global revenue stream could shift much of the world’s users of current internet providers his way. $50 per month per antenna times 2-3 billion customers is serious cash. SpaceX would become the service staff for Starlink.


12 posted on 03/28/2022 11:12:26 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Signalman

Petrol is sold by the litre... Gasoline and Diesel are sold by the gallon.


13 posted on 03/28/2022 11:17:12 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, but a trillion dollars just ain’t what it used to be.


14 posted on 03/28/2022 11:20:29 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Cargo, satellites, people...He has developed a system that has dramatically reduced the cost of launching payloads.
15 posted on 03/28/2022 11:30:04 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: Red Badger

Lieawatha will have a field day with this.


16 posted on 03/28/2022 11:32:03 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Red Badger

Is there any way to convince him to buy Disney and toss all the Pervs out?


17 posted on 03/28/2022 11:33:01 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Little Ray

He doesn’t want to waste his dough.................


18 posted on 03/28/2022 11:59:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I see numbers like that and wonder......

I can’t even imagine what having that kind of money would be like.


19 posted on 03/28/2022 12:03:48 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: Signalman

Optimise.😏


20 posted on 03/28/2022 12:06:59 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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