Gangtok, June 13 -- Elon Musk has just become the first person in history to be worth a trillion dollars. The trigger was SpaceX's blockbuster stock market debut, which catapulted his combined stake in SpaceX and Tesla past the $1 trillion mark almost overnight. But while the headlines focus on a single dramatic day, Musk's path to this moment stretches back more than four decades, through a string of near-bankruptcies, public failures, and bets that could easily have gone the other way. This remarkable journey has led him to become a trillionaire elon musk.

The Trillion-Dollar Day

SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq after pricing its initial public offering at 135 dollars a share, valuing the rocket company at roughly 1.77 trillion doll...