Despite that, the blockbuster IPO has made Musk the world's first trillionaire, minted thousands of new millionaires and saw some shareholders' stakes surpass the billion-dollar mark.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
22 June 2026
Both Anthropic and rival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are set to go public in the coming year, minting thousands of new multi-millionaires.
As fortunes move beyond their founding generation, advisers say successful transfers increasingly depend on preparing heirs for stewardship, not just structuring the assets themselves.
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Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
If the estate has sufficient funds, the credit card balance will generally be paid before heirs receive their inheritances.
Texts, screen grabs, recordings and other records recovered from a search of Rinderknecht’s cellphones and presented in court portrayed a man who was by turns lonely and livid, angry at billionaires and ex-romantic partners while seemingly scared about his own declining mental health.
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Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
The autocrat delights in humiliating so many people, not least tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who once opposed him.
Alongside the police raids, the downfall of these tycoons put pressure on scam companies, which have relocated from Cambodia in recent months, researchers and former scam workers said.
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Shibani Mahtani,
NPR,
21 June 2026
Greek shipping tycoons, Morley said, may be intrigued by the glory of owning Onassis’s yacht; Middle Eastern oil magnates could have the means to buy a pricey piece of history.
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