ST.“100 TRILLION DOLLARS – A FIGURE EQUAL TO THE ENTIRE GLOBAL ECONOMY”: Elon Musk’s Stunning Prediction That SpaceX Could Become the Most Valuable Company in Human History
When Elon Musk casually mentioned that SpaceX could one day be worth $100 trillion, the world froze. Markets didn’t just blink — they laughed, gasped, argued, and then fell silent. One hundred trillion dollars is not just a big number. It is roughly equal to the value of the entire global economy today. No company in history has ever come close. Not Apple. Not Saudi Aramco. Not even the combined tech giants of Silicon Valley.
And yet, Musk insists this isn’t science fiction.
According to Musk, SpaceX is not a “rocket company.” It is the foundation of an entirely new off-world economy, and at the center of that vision stand two pillars: Starlink and Starship.
Starlink, SpaceX’s rapidly expanding satellite internet network, already blankets large portions of the Earth with high-speed connectivity. With tens of thousands of satellites planned, Starlink aims to provide internet access to every corner of the planet — from war zones and disaster areas to remote villages untouched by traditional infrastructure. Analysts estimate Starlink alone could generate hundreds of billions in annual revenue, potentially rivaling the largest telecom companies on Earth.
But Musk says that’s just the beginning.
The real money, he claims, starts beyond Earth’s gravity.
Enter Starship — the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. Fully reusable. Designed to carry massive cargo and hundreds of people. Built not just to visit space, but to industrialize it. Musk envisions Starship as the backbone of interplanetary logistics, slashing the cost of space travel by orders of magnitude. Once launch costs collapse, space stops being exclusive — and starts being economic.
In Musk’s vision, Mars is not a symbol. It’s a market.
He predicts a future where millions of people live and work off Earth, building cities, mining resources, manufacturing in zero gravity, and creating industries that simply cannot exist on Earth. From rare materials to advanced pharmaceuticals, from space-based solar power to entirely new forms of production, Musk believes the economic output of a multiplanet civilization could dwarf Earth’s economy itself.
“If civilization becomes multiplanetary,” Musk has suggested, “the economy expands dramatically.”
That’s where the $100 trillion number comes from.
Not rockets. Not satellites. Scale.
Critics, of course, call the idea absurd. Mars has no atmosphere humans can breathe. Space is brutally hostile. Colonization costs are astronomical. Governments struggle to cooperate on Earth — let alone another planet. To skeptics, Musk’s prediction sounds like another bold exaggeration designed to excite fans and intimidate competitors.
But history complicates the criticism.
SpaceX already did what experts said was impossible: reusable orbital rockets. Private companies beating national space agencies. Launch costs collapsing by over 90%. Each milestone once mocked — now industry standard. Betting against Musk has proven expensive.
Still, even supporters admit the risks are unprecedented. A single catastrophic failure, regulatory shutdown, or geopolitical conflict could derail everything. The timeline spans decades. The investment required is staggering. And success demands not just technology, but global cooperation and societal transformation.
Yet Musk remains unmoved.
To him, the real risk is staying confined to one planet — one disaster away from extinction. SpaceX, in his mind, is not chasing valuation. It’s chasing survival.
If Musk is wrong, the $100 trillion dream will join history’s greatest overestimations.
If he’s right, SpaceX won’t just be the most valuable company ever created.
It will be remembered as the moment humanity became an interplanetary civilization — and turned the sky into an economy.
And suddenly, $100 trillion may not sound impossible at all.
