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Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soar

Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soar
France 24 Saturday 13 June 2026, 13:04 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soar Issued on: Share Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX closed almost 20 percent higher on their trading debut Friday after the biggest IPO in history, making the polarizing entrepreneur the world's first trillionaire as he vowed to take humanity to Mars.
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