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The Makeshift Podcast

#185 Breaking Down ELON MUSK'S Net Worth!

The Makeshift Podcast

The Makeshift Project

Comedy

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Discovering how Elon Musk's net worth is calculated, learning popular companies and the crazy different products they make, deciding which country has the best law, how much to be in the top 1% of certain countries, and more!

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0:00 ELON MUSK’S MONEY BROKEN DOWN

3:47 MAKESHIFT UPDATES!

7:30 DIFFERENT PRODUCTS COMPANIES MAKE!

12:51 IS ELON MUSK IRON MAN?

15:48 WHICH COUNTRY’S LAW IS BETTER?

20:54 BEST NIGHT ACTIVITY WITH FRIENDS?

28:33 HOW MUCH TO BE IN THE TOP 1%?

32:41 THE WORLD HAS CHANGED SINCE 2016

36:43 SIX GOOD NEWS HEADLINES!

39:32 THE MONOLOGUES!

43:02 MEMBER SHOUTOUTS!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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Choose from a range of cards meals, including the legendary double big man. Order a cards mill and get a pack today. 18 plus UK only. We've selected meals subject to availability. Ends 27th of April app may be required. CmockD Rules.com. Here's a full breakdown of Elon Musk's net worth. Probably a lot of stuff going on. Okay, we're going to have you guess each option as we go, okay? All right. Sounds good. How much of his net worth is Tesla? You can tell me dollars or percentage? It's up to you. I would assume that it's pretty high in his net worth. He's worth $76 billion to give you a starting point. I'm going to say it's a third of his net worth. Okay, it's 46% of his net worth, which is approximately $350 billion. Now, that's a lot of money, Zach. It's Tesla shares restored options package, which I don't know what that means. Still the single biggest public driver for him and it has massive volatility. Did somebody say massive? Yeah, it goes up and down. Massive. Oh, the taper fade? Low deeper. Put that away. Put that one away. All right, we're done. How much is SpaceX of his total net worth? I'm going to assume less than Tesla, but still a ton of money. It costs a lot of money to make spaceships. Let's go with 20%. Okay. Surprisingly, it's 44%. So majority of his net worth is SpaceX and Tesla. 90% of his net worth is between those two,

1:54.2

approximately $335 billion in SpaceX. A lot of money. I know what you're going to say next.

1:59.3

What do you think I'm going to say? The boring company. I wasn't going to say the boring company. Damn. I'm going to say Twitter or X. Ah, and that's only about 40 billion I think you bought it for? I'm saying only as if that's a small amount of money. So you already have 90% of his net worth between those two options and stocks. It's not even liquid cash. Yeah, I'm going to say 4% for Twitter. Four percent? Four percent of his

2:18.7

net worth. Double it. It's 8% of his net worth, which is still $61 billion.

2:24.0

Okay. Just say that sentence out loud. Yeah, he's a rich guy. It's a lot of money.

2:28.9

The other category is other private bets. So you only have 2% to work with. I could have sworn the boring company was worth a few billion. This is made of Neurrelink, the boring company, and early stage ventures that he's invested in. Okay. I could have sworn boring company was worth more money, but it could be wrong. Well, what percentage do you think out of the 2% left? 1%. 1%. You'd be correct. Those three total together, $7.5 billion. So it is a billion dollar company. Yeah, it is. But he has so many billions that it's only 1%. And then how much cash does he have liquid? On hand. Like in a safe? I don't think in a safe, but he's able to actually withdraw it and turn it into real money. Maybe like a million dollars. Way more than that. $100 million. It's the last 1% $7.5 billion. I also think that that's not true. I don't think Elon Musk can go to a bank and take out $7.5 billion. No, but I think it's like his investments, his savings and like other stuff. He could withdraw it basically. It's pretty liquid money. Yes, you're right. It is liquid money. He just can't turn it into real cash. Out of all of this, as Tesla CEO, how much money does he pay himself per year? Oh, zero dollars. Zero dollars. Yeah, I knew that. Puts it all back into the firm. Yeah. He lives in a, I think he lives in his warehouse.

3:41.6

What does he pay, like, his rent and like, I guess he doesn't. He doesn't pay rent. He owns the place. So, like, when he does make these purchases, he's just using his personal cash. Like, I don't think it's personal cash. I think it's just business cash. I think he uses everything as expenses. I always wondered like, like, what's his accountant? Like, how do he get that job?

4:00.1

Yeah, that's, that's probably the most stressful job on the planet. It's got to be right. He's got to only have one client. He probably pays a ton of money. He definitely only has one client. I don't think he is doing regular people taxes after Elon's. I just think that's insane. It's like how much money does that account make and like what's that job even look like how much does i think he makes at least a million

4:18.0

dollars i think he makes at least a million dollars. He makes a record breaking compensation package of $139.5 million. That's no, that's insane. In 2024. So that's got to be like accountant, financial advisor. He probably does it all, right? He's the CFO of Tesla and manages all the

4:30.9

financial aspects. That makes sense. That guy is probably pretty smart. He's definitely pretty smart. All right, that's Elon Musk. Welcome back to the podcast. What podcast is this 150, 185? This is 185. You almost got it backwards, but you got it. 185. Before we go into the podcast, wanted to give someone a shout out. Yeah, why not?

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