What Elon Musk could buy with $1 trillion

Tesla shareholders have approved a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could, over the next decade, make him the world's first trillionaire. This is contingent on Tesla achieving significant milestones, including a substantial increase in its market capitalization. The article explores what a trillion dollars represents, emphasizing its incomprehensible scale. For perspective, it would take nearly 800 years to spend a trillion dollars at $40 per second. With a trillion dollars, one could purchase numerous assets and entities, such as multiple Shohei Ohtani contracts, every car sold in the US annually, thousands of Starbucks CEOs, hundreds of supertall skyscrapers, numerous megayachts, or even the entire Ivy League multiple times over. Further examples illustrate the immense purchasing power of a trillion dollars, including buying almost 500 of the world's largest cruise ships, providing a substantial bonus to every person in the United States, or acquiring the annual GDP of Switzerland. It could also fund the purchase of every house in Hawaii, the acquisition of Coca-Cola along with a bevera... download the app to read more