Spend a Billionaire's Fortune
We Tried to Spend the World's Richest Fortune on Real Billionaire Purchases
Elon Musk's live net worth is an estimated $405.74B. We built a shopping list of 15 real, documented purchases — from a $6 coffee to Elon Musk's actual $44 billion Twitter deal — and added up what it would cost Elon to buy one of literally everything on it.
The full list comes to $54.23B — just 13% of Elon's fortune. That leaves $351.51B over, enough to buy the entire list again 6 more times.
Even the priciest item — Twitter (now X) (what Elon Musk paid in 2022), at $44.00B — barely dents it: Elon's fortune could buy about 9 of them. At the other extreme, that same fortune buys roughly 67.62B cups of coffee.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Are the item prices on this list real?
- Yes — each one is a rounded public figure or a documented deal price (Bezos's Washington Post purchase, Musk's Twitter deal, Ballmer's Clippers purchase, and so on), listed next to the item.
- How much of Elon Musk's fortune would it take to buy one of everything?
- About 13%, or $54.23B out of an estimated $405.74B.
- Can I try this with a different billionaire?
- Yes — the Spend a Billionaire's Fortune calculator above lets you switch between the top 8 billionaires we track and build your own shopping list against their live net worth.
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