What moved it
The list gives the figure without a single reason. Between lists his fortune moved with his Tesla shares and the value put on his SpaceX stake.
That year’s milestones
- $400B, December 2024. Passes $400 billion. Wealth of Elon Musk, Wikipedia, citing Forbes
Against today
Our checkpoint at the close on 15 October 2026 was $924.3 billion, which is 4.7 times his March 2024 figure. Against the $22 million he took from selling Zip2 in 1999, the 2024 figure was 8,864 times as much.
Where the figure comes from
His entry on the Forbes World’s Billionaires list, published each March and measured a few weeks before: The World's Billionaires, Wikipedia, citing Forbes . Every year is on History.