{"id":245863,"date":"2026-06-12T15:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-goes-public\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:07:41","slug":"elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-goes-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-goes-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Becomes World&#8217;s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Goes Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2229034\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elon-musk\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a> has officially become the world\u2019s first trillionaire.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday (June 12), the 54-year-old businessman\u2019s company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/spacex\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">SpaceX<\/strong><\/a> went public at a valuation of approximately $1.77 trillion, pushing the CEO\u2019s estimated $813 billion net worth over the trillion-dollar line, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-trillionaire-wealth\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=959732159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musk<\/strong>\u2018s latest financial feat comes after SpaceX\u2019s IP was expected to set share prices at $135 each, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mattdurot\/2026\/06\/03\/spacexs-reported-ipo-price-would-make-elon-musk-the-worlds-first-trillionaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Teams are go for launch with a $135 price per share for the SpaceX IPO,\u201d SpaceX wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2065154746810327356\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, along with a link showing how would be able to buy the now-public stock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musk<\/strong> owns approximately 4.8 million shares of SpaceX common stock, or about 42% of the company, along with 350 million stock options. Those holdings are worth an estimated $688 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/elon-trillion.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/elon-trillion-788x525.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk is a trillionaire\" class=\"wp-image-2229036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/elon-trillion-788x525.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/elon-trillion-428x285.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>When combined with his stakes in Tesla and other business ventures, the rise in SpaceX\u2019s valuation pushes <strong>Musk<\/strong>\u2018s personal net worth over $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musk<\/strong> is now worth more than twice the world\u2019s second-richest person, Google co-founder <strong>Larry Page<\/strong>, who is worth an estimated $288 billion.<\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX, which is trading under the ticker symbol \u201cSPCX,\u201d rises above $135 per share, <strong>Musk<\/strong>\u2018s wealth will climb even further,  though he could fall below the trillionaire line if the stock sinks.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX was founded in 2002, and is now a major partner for NASA. It launches rockets and runs the Starlink internet service used around the world. It also owns social network X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In his private life, <strong>Elon<\/strong> <strong>Musk<\/strong> partnered with several women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/12\/elon-musks-family-all-14-children-their-4-mothers-as-of-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and welcomed over a dozen children to date.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elon-musk\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/finance\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/net-worth\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Net Worth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/spacex\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/stock-market\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stock Market<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-spacex-goes-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Elon Musk has officially become the world\u2019s first trillionaire. On Friday (June 12), the 54-year-old businessman\u2019s company SpaceX went public at a valuation of approximately $1.77 trillion, pushing the CEO\u2019s estimated $813 billion net worth over the trillion-dollar line, CBS News reports. Musk\u2018s latest financial feat comes after SpaceX\u2019s IP was expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}