How Much are the World's Billionaires Worth in Their Own Products?

Money is a very powerful tool, especially when you have more of it than 134 countries. However, for us normal people, it can be difficult to visualize just how much money the world’s richest people truly have. Sure, a billion dollars is an incredibly huge amount of money, but what is it actually worth? What does a billion dollars get you? And more importantly, if the world’s richest individuals wanted to spend everything they had, how many of their own products would they be able to buy? After a completely unjustified amount of research and calculations, I finally have some answers to this admittedly pointless question, and the results are actually quite astounding.

Tim Cook

Tim Cook ($625 M)

Easily ranking as the poorest person I investigated, Apple CEO Tim Cook’s net worth clocks in at a measly $625 million. Believe it or not, however, a few hundred million bucks can still get you quite a bit of stuff. In Tim Cook’s case, if he were to invest in his company’s new iPhone XS Max, he would be able to buy 568,699 of them. Alternatively, he could purchase 477,099,237 pounds of apples.

Paul McCartney ($1.2 B)

Paul McCartney is one of the most famous, successful, and influential musicians of all time, and unsurprisingly, that has earned him a lot of dough. Best known for his work with The Beatles, McCartney has crafted some of the most legendary albums ever made such as Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the latter of which could be purchased on iTunes 92,378,735 times by McCartney himself.

Michael Jordan ($1.4 B)

Widely regarded as the greatest basketball player to ever play the sport, Michael Jordan has since found success in the fashion industry with his Jordan brand of athletic shoes and apparel. His products are often sold at a pretty steep price, but luckily for Jordan, that should not be a problem for him if he wants to buy some for himself. For example, if he wanted to get a few of pairs of his Air Jordan 12 Retro CNY shoes ($250 MSRP), he could afford about 5,600,600 of them. Or if he wanted to support his former team, he could purchase 666,984 courtside tickets to Chicago Bulls games.

Elon Musk ($21.1 B)

Elon Musk has become one of the biggest names in the tech world recently thanks to his endeavors in PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. With electric cars becoming more and more popular, Musk’s Tesla brand of luxury electric vehicles has been particularly successful; with $21.1 billion, Musk can obtain 239,773 Model X Teslas. He is also worth 234 reusable launches of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at $90 million each.

Mark Zuckerberg ($62.8 B)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg emerged onto the Silicon Valley scene at a very young age and immediately became one of the world’s wealthiest robots humans. While Facebook itself is completely free to use, the company has recently experimented with other products such as the Portal, Facebook’s response to the Amazon Echo and Google Home. Currently listed at $149, Zuckerberg could purchase his new voice-activated AI assistant 421,476,510 times. He can also afford 4,849,420,849 Blu-Ray copies of The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg.

Bill Gates ($94.6 B)

Formerly the richest man on Earth, Microsoft’s Bill Gates is known for being one of the most generous philanthropists, creating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which invests billions each year to provide healthcare, education, and food to underdeveloped areas. But, why give to those in need when you can buy 193,186,373 Xboxes?

Jeff Bezos ($142.3 B)

Founder and CEO of Amazon, a company which single-handedly started the online shopping revolution and would go on to kill almost every retail store in its path, Jeff Bezos is worth an unfathomable $142.3 billion. He is the richest man in the world by a wide margin and there’s nothing that will ever change that, ever.

Okay, so maybe Bezos is at risk of losing his title of wealthiest person alive due to some, uhh, troubling controversies. But despite the recent scandals, let’s take a look at how much Bezos was worth at his peak because the numbers are simply jaw dropping.

A monthly subscription to Amazon Prime currently costs $12.99. If Jeff Bezos decided to invest every penny of his net worth into these monthly subscriptions, he would have 10,954,580,446 months of Prime. To put that into perspective, Bezos has enough money to buy one month of his own service for every living human being on the planet and still have $42.5 billion left.

But what if Bezos was not feeling quite as philanthropic and only wanted to buy Amazon Prime for himself? In that case, he would probably go for the yearly subscription, costing him $119 per year. If he uses all of his money to ensure that he will maintain his Prime bonuses for the longest amount of time possible, he would have to wait 1,195,798,319 years until he no longer receives two-day shipping on eligible purchases.