Elon Musk is officially a trillionaire. Here's what $1,000,000,000,000 looks like

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire. Catapulted by the historic market debut of his rocket company, SpaceX, the tech mogul has officially amassed 13-figure wealth. SpaceX debuted on public markets Friday at $150 a share, locking in an unprecedented $1.97 trillion market valuation. Ahead of the first trade-in, Forbes put Musk's net worth at $982 billion. Much of his fortune comes from his electric car company, Tesla. He also co-founded the company that later became PayPal. $1 trillion is a thousand times greater than $1 billion, and a million times greater than $1 million. A one and 12 zeros, four commas. Still, the number one trillion is hard to comprehend. So let's put it in perspective. If you made $100,000 a year and saved every penny, it would take you 10 million years to match that wealth. That means you would have had to start working when early human ancestors were first walking the earth. If Musk decided to buy every single American adult a $4 iced coffee every single day, he could keep the entire country caffeinated for almost three years straight. His wealth will sit just shy of the gross domestic product of Poland, while completely eclipsing the entire annual economic output of Taiwan. Only about 21 countries have a GDP higher than $1 trillion today. If you divide up $1 trillion and distribute it equally to all 8.2 billion people on earth, every single person on the planet would instantly get nearly $122. So what does he plan on doing with all that cash? Musk says he doesn't plan to spend his trillion dollar fortune solely on himself. He'll instead use it to fund a permanent human settlement on Mars, and his first counting on SpaceX to get us there.