Musk became the world's first trillionaire after his company, SpaceX, went public. Since then, people have been trying to imagine the extent of his fortune. Some have calculated that if you stacked $1 trillion in $100 bills, it would be nearly 1,093 kilometers high, the author notes. John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in American history and owner of Standard Oil, had a fortune equal to 1.5 percent of the US GDP, and Musk's fortune is m…
Musk became the world's first trillionaire after his company, SpaceX, went public. Since then, people have been trying to imagine the extent of his fortune. Some have calculated that if you stacked $1 trillion in $100 bills, it would be nearly 1,093 kilometers high, the author notes. John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in American history and owner of Standard Oil, had a fortune equal to 1.5 percent of the US GDP, and Musk's fortune is m…