Here we go: Elon Musk has officially become the world's number one A trillionaire, but there's a nuance (1 photo + 1 video)
While mere mortals are counting their change until payday, Elon Musk has finally shattered this world and officially become history's first dollar trillionaire. 
Yes, a trillion is a one followed by twelve zeros: $1,000,000,000,000. The main purveyor of promises of Mars colonization and self-driving irons is now officially richer than the GDP of most countries on this planet.
He was aided in this by yet another financial spectacle of unprecedented generosity – the IPO of the space company SpaceX. The long-awaited IPO (initial public offering) sparked such a frenzy among investors that the company immediately raised a record $75 billion. This is an all-time high for the stock market, proving that if you promise people space, they'll happily hand over their last billions on Earth.
Thanks to this stock market boom, Musk's personal fortune has skyrocketed to completely insane heights.
There are already jokes online that Elon can now go beyond churning out his dubious electric cars and buying up social media platforms for silly memes, and buy up a couple of small countries, lock, stock, and barrel. However, given his penchant for hype, all those trillions will likely go toward yet another crazy project that we'll be discussing for the next ten years.
But all this beauty is only on paper for now: the valuation includes options contingent on future conditions (launching data centers, establishing a colony on Mars). Of the $1 trillion, Musk will receive the bulk of it—$867 billion—only for establishing a colony on Mars.
