In July 2024, shortly after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated that he’d been separately targeted in two attempts as well. Both men were arrested with guns roughly 20 minutes away from Tesla’s Texas HQ.

Given that these Big Tech head honchos are running companies whose revenues rival the GDPs of small countries, it’s no surprise that they could be attracting unwanted attention. And that their security costs must be astronomical.

But just how astronomical exactly?

This graphic visualizes the annual security costs incurred by Big Tech companies to protect their CEOs in 2023. Data is sourced from an analysis done by Fortune magazine, published earlier this year.

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