Elon Musk’s Wealth Lifts Off: SpaceX Valuation Rockets Him Past $600 Billion

Elon Musk has just rewritten the record books on personal wealth. A stunning new valuation for SpaceX – set at around $800 billion in a blockbuster insider share sale – has sent Musk’s net worth soaring by nearly $167 billion in a single move, to roughly $638 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In this video, we break down how one re-rating of SpaceX turned into the biggest wealth surge ever linked to a single individual, and how Tesla, X and xAI are adding extra thrust to Musk’s financial liftoff. We also stack Musk’s fortune against the rest of the world’s richest – from Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – and explore whether Musk could realistically become the world’s first trillionaire. Watch this deep-dive explainer on the man who has taken the rich list into a whole new orbit.