Elon Musk loses trillionaire status after tech sell-off erases billions from fortune ⁠33%

By Sophia Compton⁠76%

6/25/2026, 1:16:06 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 31.1% saturation with 119 hits. Analysis detected 881 faulty-reasoning hits from 383 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠33% (13,766 of 20,408 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.50% of the article peer group.

Elon Musk is no longer worth more than $1 trillion, less than two weeks after becoming the first person to reach the milestone. 
Musk’s net worth was valued at $946 billion as of Wednesday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 
That is down from about $1.11 trillion less than 14 days earlier. 
The drop came after shares of SpaceX and Tesla fell during a broader tech sell-off. 
Investors have become more cautious about the long-term profitability of artificial intelligence. 
Musk remains the world’s richest person by a wide margin. 
As of Wednesday, Larry Page ranked second at $296 billion, followed by Sergey Brin at $275 billion, Jeff Bezos at $257 billion and Michael Dell at $223 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 
SPACEX MAKES HISTORIC DEBUT; MUSK SOLIDIFIES STATUS AS WORLD’S FIRST TRILLIONAIRE 
SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share and began trading at $150 on June 12. 
The debut helped push Musk’s net worth above $1 trillion. 
At the IPO price, the listing valued SpaceX at more than $1.77 trillion. 
Musk owned about 42% of the company, and his SpaceX stake, combined with his Tesla holdings and other assets, put his net worth at more than $1 trillion. 
MUSK'S SPACEX SURGES PAST AMAZON IN MARKET CAP AFTER HISTORIC IPO DEBUT 
SpaceX shares later rose as high as $225.64 on June 16. 
That lifted Musk’s net worth to about $1.32 trillion. 
But the gains did not last. 
SpaceX shares fell more than 30% from their June peak during the tech sell-off. 
On June 22, the stock dropped 16%, wiping about $240 billion from Musk’s fortune. 
Tesla shares fell nearly 6% the next day, adding to the loss. 
SPACEX SET A NEW RECORD FOR IPOS: THESE ARE THE WORLD'S 5 LARGEST 
Founded by Musk in 2002, SpaceX has grown into the world's largest space company and a dominant force in commercial launch services. 
The company pioneered reusable rocket technology, helping lower launch costs and reshape the economics of the space industry. 
It has also become a key contractor for NASA and the U.S. government through civil and national security missions. 
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FOX Business' Bradford Betz and Eric Revell contributed to this report. 
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383 words analyzed.

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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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