Popular digital artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, portrayed Elon Musk as a massive cyborg figure late Monday following his historic achievement as the world’s first trillionaire.
Musk Shows As Undisputed Tech Tzar
Beeple posted an artwork on X, titled “1.3 TRILLION,” celebrating Musk hitting a record net worth of $1.3 trillion after Space Exploration Technologies Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) IPO drove a sharp valuation surge.
The artwork showed Musk towering over a futuristic city with cheering crowds below. Inside the cyborg’s glowing chest chamber are portraits of rival tech figures, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder and Executive Chair Jeff Bezos and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, implying Musk’s complete dominance over rival tech figures.
Musk topped the Forbes list, followed by Bezos in fourth place and Zuckerberg in fifth, while Gates ranked a distant 19th. In fact, Musk’s wealth dwarfed the combined fortune of the other three.
Musk replied to the post, saying, “So flattering.”
Beeple made headlines in 2021 by selling his non-fungible token-based artwork “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for $69 million. However, days later, he declared that the NFT art was in a “bubble.”
To the Moon
Musk reached the historic feat after his space company opened to a blockbuster debut on Friday. The stock debuted at $150, well above the IPO price, officially making Musk a trillionaire.
The valuation includes Musk owning around 38% of SpaceX stock and options, roughly 15% of Tesla stock and options and ownership of other ventures, including Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Musk said on Sunday that becoming a quadrillionaire is “not impossible,” but suggested such wealth would require factories on the Moon and Mars and a future economy no longer measured in dollars
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