trillionaire

Example Sentences

• "The CEO of our company is a multibillionaire and now hopes to become a trillionaire."
• "Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way. […] Their net worth expanded so quickly that Oxfam revised its estimate from last year that only one trillionaire would be crowned in the next decade."
• "SpaceX has grown since its founding in 2002 into the most valuable piece of Musk’s vast tech empire. Its forthcoming IPO also stands to make the world’s richest person even wealthier, moving him closer to becoming a trillionaire from a current net worth of $807bn, according to Forbes."
• "As it turns out, $1 trillion is such a large number and so far beyond the human imagination that we can't wrap our minds around it. A trillion is a thousand times more than a billion, but let's be honest: I could have told you it was a million times more and you probably would have believed me. Not long ago, the word trillionaire only appeared in The Wall Street Journal as hyperbole. It was an obviously exaggerated way of describing an inconceivable fortune—like calling someone a bazillionaire. But now that SpaceX is going public, it might just be something we call Elon Musk. In a way, it's fitting that the world's first trillionaire could be minted by a company with hopes of sending people to destinations unfathomably far away, since the sheer magnitude of a trillion is also impossible for us to fathom. So let's make it possible. A million seconds ago was about two weeks ago. A billion seconds ago was in 1994, when "Pulp Fiction" was about to open in theaters. What about a trillion seconds? Whatever number is in your head, you might want to add some millennia—because a trillion seconds ago was back in the Ice Age."
• "Countless Zimbabweans had the dubious distinction of being trillionaires in 2008."
• "One popular foreign currency transaction scheme labelled 'burning money' made people instant quadrillionaires and trillionaires in Zimbabwean dollars."