Website Case Study
The Trillionaire Hub
A daily scoreboard for the one trillion dollar line: the companies already above it, and the people still climbing toward it.
At a Glance
The Trillionaire Hub is our own site tracking trillion-dollar companies and people. One page holds three parts. Corporate charts the largest companies above one trillion dollars, ranks every company over the mark and lists those approaching it. People plots the wealthiest individuals against the same line and names the closest contender. Method explains how valuations and net worth are sourced, and a fresh feed of both is generated automatically each day.
- Project
- Website
- Sector
- Finance: market valuations and net worth
- Scope
- Single page in three parts: corporate, people, method
- Highlights
- Line-anchored charts, daily feed, crossing alerts
- Live site
- TheTrillionaireHub.com
The Brief
One trillion dollars is a single threshold anyone can grasp. The design had to make that line the organizing idea of the whole site, with companies standing above it and people racing toward it.
- Make the one trillion dollar mark the visual anchor of both the corporate and the people charts.
- Rank the companies above the line and flag the ones closing in on it.
- Show how far the wealthiest people remain from becoming the first trillionaire.
- Explain plainly where the valuations and net worth figures come from.
What We Designed
The line is the design. Under the heading Towering above the line, the corporate chart measures market value in trillions with the one trillion dollar mark as its floor, and a numbered list with ticker symbols follows. In People the chart turns around: net worth climbs toward a trillion dollar finish at the top, with those who have crossed kept apart from those still climbing, and a note naming the closest.
Instrument Serif lends the headlines the poise of a financial broadsheet, Hanken Grotesk carries the text and Spline Sans Mono sets the tickers and figures. The palette is cool and composed: a pale blue-grey background, deep navy ink and a strong corporate blue for the active tab, which suits a subject about enormous sums without tipping into flash.
The line as floor
The largest company valuations are charted in trillions from the one trillion dollar mark upward, so their margin above it is easy to see.
Approaching the line
Companies just short of one trillion dollars are listed separately, so the next to cross is easy to spot.
Race to the line
Individual net worth is plotted against the trillion dollar finish, separating anyone who has crossed from those still climbing.
Trillion dollar alerts
Subscribers get a short email when a company or a person crosses the one trillion dollar line.
How We Achieved It
The site runs on a feed of company valuations and individual net worth generated automatically on a schedule each day, and the masthead shows the time of the latest update. A Method section, How the numbers are sourced, covers market valuations, individual net worth and the single line itself, so readers can see how each figure is reached.
We put the site through a full audit covering the legal overlays for privacy, cookies, the legal notice, terms of use and accessibility, the contact and subscribe forms, email obfuscation, SEO and the heading structure. Both forms use Google reCAPTCHA with additional checks on every submission, and the main navigation stays to three words: Corporate, People and Method.
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