A trillion is a lot of zeros. Tesla CEO Elon Musk may soon become the world’s first trillionaire. Musk’s chance of becoming the world’s first trillionaire comes from a new pay package Tesla is offering him. The pay package includes over 420 million shares of Tesla stock, which will not make a him a trillionaire but if Tesla’s value rises, he will be on the door of becoming a trillionaire. If Elon Musk achieves his compensation plan, it would make him a Trillionaire. Our traders forecast the first trillionaire to be: • Elon Musk 43% • Mark Zuckerberg 7% • Jensen Huang 5% • Sam Altman 5% • Larry Ellison 3% • Larry Page 2% • Jeff Bezos 1% pic.twitter.com/08THxEj6LC — Kalshi (@Kalshi) September 5, 2025 CNN reported a more in-depth report on how Musk may soon make all of those zeros:   Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, could become the first trillionaire after the Tesla board unveiled a massive new pay package for its CEO to keep his focus on the troubled EV maker. The package would grant him additional shares of Tesla stock if the company is able to grow far beyond its current value, with a market capitalization far greater than any company has ever approached. Musk’s previous pay package, which added significantly to his massive wealth, also laid out ambitious growth plans that once appeared to be a reach – but which Tesla proved able to reach easily. The new pay package could grant Musk 423.7 million additional shares of Tesla stock. Those shares would be be worth $143.5 billion at today’s stock value. But Musk would get those shares only if the value of Tesla stock increases significantly in coming years. The company stock would need to reach an overall value of $8.5 trillion for Musk to get all the shares, significantly above the current market capitalization of $1.1 trillion Those 423.7 million new shares that Musk would get under this package would be worth close to $1 trillion should the company hit the increased valuation targets spelled out in Friday’s proxy statement. If Tesla shares are able to reach the $8.5 billion market capitalization value, it could become the most valuable company ever. It would be worth roughly double the current market value of Nvidia (NVDA), the current most-valuable company on the market. Tesla is already the most valuable automaker by a large margin, even though legacy automakers, like second-most valuable automaker Toyota, sell far more vehicles and now make more profits. Musk is currently the world’s richest man and has a net worth of $378 million. Bank Rate provided details who is now currently on the top 5 richest people on the earth: 1. Elon Musk: $378 billion Elon Musk is one of the most controversial business figures, but what’s not under dispute is his wealth. Born in South Africa, Musk built Tesla into a leading player in the electric vehicle market, and is pushing space travel with his SpaceX venture. Musk made a small fortune as an early shareholder of PayPal, and more recently purchased Twitter, which he renamed X. Musk has courted controversy in recent years, becoming politically aligned with President Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election before becoming the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as well as using drugs during a broadcast interview with top podcaster Joe Rogan. 2. Larry Ellison: $297 billion Larry Ellison co-founded software company Oracle and ran it for decades before becoming its chief technology officer and executive chairman. Ellison also owns nearly all of the Hawaiian island of Lana’i. 3. Mark Zuckerberg: $274 billion Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Meta Platforms, the company previously known as Facebook. The youngest member of this list, Zuckerberg began Facebook out of his dorm room at Harvard and quickly expanded it over the ensuing years. Meta owns social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, as well as the messaging service WhatsApp. The company is also heavily investing in artificial intelligence. 4. Jeff Bezos: $246 billion As the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos became something of a household name in the dot-com boom of 1999-2000, but his wealth really took off after the 2008-2009 financial crisis. In the decade that followed, Amazon expanded into web services, logistics and shipping and more. Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and founded Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is commercializing space travel. He’s also a noted philanthropist, founding the Bezos Earth Fund in 2020 with a donation of $10 billion and has said that he will give away most of his fortune. 5. Larry Page: $181 billion Larry Page co-founded Google — subsequently renamed Alphabet — with another member of this list (No. 7). He headed up the company from 1997 to 2001 and then again from 2011 to 2019. Your thought?