Exploration · Scale of money
Spend it all.
Pick a budget. Try to spend every dollar. Notice what changes about the exercise as the number of zeros grows.
Budget
$1.00 billion
Spent
$0
Remaining
$1.00 billion
Start buying. You have $1.00 billion to burn.
Everyday
📱
iPhone Pro
$1,200 each
💻
MacBook Pro
$2,500 each
🚗
Tesla Model 3
$40,000 each
🎓
Full 4-year college tuition (private)
$240,000 each
Luxury
⌚
Rolex Daytona
$50,000 each
🏎
Ferrari 812 Superfast
$400,000 each
🎨
Basquiat painting
$110 million each
🛩
Gulfstream G700
$78.0 million each
⛵
Superyacht
$500 million each
Real estate
🏠
Suburban home (median)
$420,000 each
🏛
Beverly Hills mansion
$15.0 million each
🌆
Manhattan penthouse
$60.0 million each
🏝
Private island (Caribbean)
$50.0 million each
🏙
A midtown office tower
$1.50 billion each
Trophy
✈
Boeing 787 airliner
$330 million each
🚀
Falcon 9 launch
$70.0 million each
🏫
Endow a public school (perpetual)
$25.0 million each
🧬
Fund a rare-disease cure trial
$1.00 billion each
Empire
🏀
An NBA team (recent sale)
$6.50 billion each
🏈
An NFL team (recent sale)
$6.50 billion each
🐦
A social network (Twitter/X, 2022 price)
$44.0 billion each
🏭
Boeing (the whole company)
$130 billion each
📺
Netflix (market cap)
$325 billion each
💾
Nvidia (market cap)
$5.30 trillion each
Prices refreshed September 2026 (recent market rates or last recorded sale). Sports-team prices anchored on 2024–2025 transactions: Boston Celtics sold for $6.1B in March 2025; LA Lakers reportedly sold for $10B soon after. Nvidia was the first company to cross a $5T market cap (October 2025). The point isn’t precision — it’s the shape of what happens between $1M and $1T.