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Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX; co-founder of Neuralink & The Boring Company
Medium confidence
Career VDS
$2.3T
Live $2.3T · Exits $1.6B
Live companies: Tesla, SpaceX (includes xAI after combination), Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Historical co-founder exits: Zip2 and PayPal (frozen event-time VDS — not today's successor market caps). X/Twitter is an acquisition, not a founding credit.
Retained stake (live)
$986.5B
Value still held across live credited companies
Externalization (live)
69.6%
Live VDS ÷ live company value
Retention (live)
30.4%
Live stake ÷ live company value
Live companies
| Company | Value | Ownership | Stake | Weight | VDS | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TeslaTSLA | $1.4T | 15.0% | $210B | 1 | $1.2T | Cap: Public market estimate ≈ $1.4T from ~$396 share price (Jul 2026) Own: SEC beneficial ownership reports vary ~13–20% depending on options inclusion; April 2026 13G/A cited ~20.3% beneficial with options; mid estimate 15% for economic-style stake As of Jul 14, 2026 |
| SpaceXSPCX | $1.8T | 42.0% | $768.6B | 1 | $1.1T | Cap: Yahoo Finance / public quotes for SPCX ≈ $1.83T post-IPO (Jul 2026); includes xAI after Feb 2026 combination Own: SpaceX S-1 / S-1A reporting ≈42% equity; ~82% voting control via dual-class (Jun 2026 IPO materials). xAI merged into SpaceX (Feb 2026) so not double-counted. As of Jul 14, 2026 |
| Neuralink | $10B | 50.0% | $5B | 1 | $5B | Cap: Secondary/private market estimates ≈ $9–10B (2025–2026 reporting) Own: Private company; majority-shareholder estimate for founder CEO — medium/low precision As of Jun 1, 2026 |
| The Boring Company | $5.7B | 50.0% | $2.9B | 1 | $2.9B | Cap: Secondary/private market estimates ≈ $5.7B (2025–2026 reporting) Own: Private company; majority-shareholder estimate — medium/low precision As of Jun 1, 2026 |
Historical co-founder exits
Frozen Bezos-method scores at the liquidity event. These do not move with today's markets and do not use successor public market caps (e.g. modern PYPL for a 2002 PayPal exit).
| Company | Event | Date | Value at exit | Ownership | VDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zip2 | acquisition | Feb 16, 1999 | $307M | 7.0% | $285.5M |
| PayPal (at eBay acquisition) | acquisition | Oct 3, 2002 | $1.5B | 11.3% | $1.3B |