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Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status

TechCrunch • Wed, 24 Jun 2026

Right now he's merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.

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Right now he's merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.

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