This Is What $250 Billion Actually Looks Like

This Is What $250 Billion Actually Looks Like

Released on 05/10/2017

[Narrator] Apple announced

their quarterly financial results

and revealed that they have a quarter trillion dollars.

It’s hard to fathom just how much money that is,

so we put it in perspective for you.

If Apple distributed the money equally

to people around the world,

each person would get $34.25.

For $800 million a piece,

they could afford 312 cruise ships.

A single dollar bill weighs one gram.

250 billion would be about 551,155,655 pounds.

That’s about as heavy as 42,396

fully grown African elephants,

or as heavy as 1,224 Statues of Liberty.

A thousand dollar bills stacked up

is about 4.3 inches thick.

So, 250 billion would be 16,966.5

miles of stacked dollars bills.

That’s back and forth from New York to LA

nearly seven times.

The area covered by one million dollar bills

is 111,287.5 square feet.

$250 billion would be nearly 998 square miles of money,

enough to put a cash carpet down

all across Luxembourg.

A dollar bill is 6.14 inches in length.

You’d have to line up 10,319 dollars

to reach one mile,

which means 250 billion dollars

would reach 24,227,153.8 miles.

That’s the distance between the Earth and the moon

over 101 times.

[Man] Houston, we’ve had a problem.

[Narrator] With more than enough to recreate

the International Space Station at a mere $150 billion,

we all want to know.

What will Apple do with the money?

[Jerry] Show me the money.

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