Elon Musk Makes Bold $10 Trillion Net Worth Remark as He Predicts Tesla Cybercab Will Dominate Ride-Hailing: ‘Obvious to Anyone With Eyes and a Brain’ Tesla Cybercab (Credit: Image via Shutterstock) Badar Shaikh Thu, November 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM EST 5 min read TSLA +2.16% ANIN.PVT Trade Tesla on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk sees the Cybercab dominating the ride-hailing sector in markets where Robotaxis can operate commercially as the EV giant's Robotaxi efforts gather steam.
On Tuesday, the billionaire responded to a thread on the social media platform X that began when user Carl Hancock questioned Tesla's logic in transitioning to an autonomous vehicle company despite the top ride-hailing companies in the global market comprising 16 million human drivers, questioning how Tesla would compete.
Elon fanboys… help me understand how turning Tesla into a taxi company makes sense. The top 5 largest ridesharing companies in the world have a combined ~16 million drivers which is 2x the number of Tesla's on the road worldwide… and a market cap of $175 billion.
— Carl Hancock 🚀🇨🇷 (@carlhancock) November 9, 2026
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"Cybercab will do a majority of all passenger miles in any jurisdiction where it is not prohibited by law," Musk said in his response. "Obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain," he added.
Cybercab will do a majority of all passenger miles in any jurisdiction where it is not prohibited by law. Obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain.
Musk's response came after Anduril Industries co-founder Palmer Luckey also chimed in with his take, saying that Tesla could stand to capitalize on the $150+ billion revenue of the sector once people subtracted "the cost of paying 16,000,000 drivers."
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In a separate post, Musk responded to user @stevenmarkryan on Tuesday, who shared a video that questioned Musk's fortune, which the billionaire has said is tied to his stake in Tesla and Space Exploration Technologies Corp..
"Well, if they didn't like $1T, they're REALLY gonna hate $10T 😂," Musk said in his response, implying that his net worth could reach $10 trillion in the future.
Well, if they didn't like $1T, they're REALLY gonna hate $10T 😂
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According to data collected by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world's gross domestic product, or GDP, was roughly $128 trillion.
At $10 trillion, Musk's net worth would far exceed the GDPs of several countries in the world, as shown by the IMF data, including Japan ($4.34 trillion), the U.K. ($4.27 trillion), Germany ($5.47 trillion), Mexico ($2.18 trillion), India ($4.06 trillion), Brazil ($2.65 trillion) and more.
Notably, the U.S. ($32.64 trillion) and China ($21.55 trillion) would be the only countries whose current GDP would exceed Musk's $10 trillion goal.
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