What could you do with $1 trillion? For starters, you could spend $1 million a day for nearly 3,000 years. Or you could earn $12.9 billion of interest on a one-year CD — among many other ideas.
As mind-boggling as it may sound, there’s a very real possibility that the world’s first trillionaire is alive today. It’s impossible to definitively predict how that person might make their fortune — otherwise we’d already be pursuing it — but we can dream up a few scenarios that have a chance of becoming reality over the next few decades.
Here are 5 conceivable ways to become a trillionaire, for those of you that’d like a shot at world [...]