How much is a billion dollars?
Short answer
A billion is a thousand million. A billion seconds is about 31.7 years. Try our Billion Dollars Visualized tool.
The numbers
- 1,000,000,000 seconds / 31,557,600 seconds per year = 31.7 years (math).
What Billionaires Told Us
“I want to invest $10 million in your company.” I said, “$10 million?” That’s like a billion dollars today. I said, “I can’t do that.”