Elon Musk

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Elon Musk

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Musk at the academy admissions day in London, 2018

Born Elon Reeve Musk

June 28, 1971 (age 50)

Pretoria, Transvaal, South {africa|Republic of African country|African country|African nation}|African country|African nation}

Citizenship

South Africa

Canada

United States

Education University of Pennsylvania (BS, BA)

Title

Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX

CEO and products designer of Tesla, Inc.

Founder of The Boring Company and X.com (now a part of PayPal)

Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, and Zip2

President of Musk Foundation

Spouse(s)

Justine Wilson

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​(m. 2000; div. 2008)​

Talulah poet

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​(m. 2010; div. 2012)​

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​(m. 2013; div. 2016)​

Partner(s) Grimes (2018–present)[1]

Children 8[note 1]

Parent(s) Maye Musk

Errol Musk

Relatives

Tosca Musk (sister)

Kimbal Musk (brother)

Lyndon Rive (cousin)

Signature

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Elon Musk in 2015

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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June twenty eight, 1971) is associate enterpriser and business man of affairs. he's the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage capitalist, CEO, and products designer of Tesla, Inc.; founding father of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With associate calculable web value of around US$221 billion as of March 2022,[3] Musk is that the wealthiest person within the world in line with each the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and therefore the Forbes period of time billionaires list.[4][5]

Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father, and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He shortly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to North American country at age seventeen to avoid draft. He was listed at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania 2 years later, wherever he received a degree in political economy and physics. He moved  to Calif. in 1995 to attend Stanford however set instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the online package company Zip2 together with his brother Kimbal. The startup was nonheritable by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. a similar year, Musk co-founded on-line bank X.com, that incorporated with Confinity in 2000 to create PayPal. the corporate was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

In 2002, Musk supported SpaceX, associate part manufacturer and house transport services company, of that he's CEO and Chief Engineer. In 2004, he joined electrical vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and products designer, turning into its CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped produce SolarCity, a alternative energy services company that was later nonheritable by Tesla and have become Tesla Energy. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a non-profit-making analysis company that promotes friendly AI. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company targeted on developing brain–computer interfaces, and supported The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company. Musk has projected the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain installation.

Musk has been criticized for unorthodox and pseudoscientific stances and extremely published contentious statements. In 2018, he was sued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for incorrectly tweeting that he had secured funding for a personal takeover of Tesla. He settled with the SEC, quickly stepping down from his place and agreeing to limitations on his Twitter usage. In 2019, he won a defamation trial brought against him by a British caver UN agency suggested within the Tham Luang cave rescue. Musk has conjointly been criticized for spreading info concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and for his different views on such matters as AI, cryptocurrency, and conveyance.

Contents

1 Early life

1.1 Childhood and family

1.2 Education

2 Business career

2.1 Zip2

2.2 X.com and PayPal

2.3 SpaceX

2.4 Tesla

2.4.1 SEC legal proceeding

2.5 SolarCity and Tesla Energy

2.6 Neuralink

2.7 The Boring Company

2.8 Managerial vogue and treatment of staff

3 Other activities

3.1 Hyperloop

3.2 OpenAI

3.3 Tham Luang cave rescue and defamation case

3.4 2018 Joe Rogan podcast look

3.5 Music ventures

3.6 Donations and non-profits

4 Wealth

5 Views

5.1 Politics

5.2 COVID-19

5.3 Artificial intelligence, metaverse, and transportation system

6 Personal life

7 Public recognition

7.1 In standard culture

7.2 Accolades

8 Notes and references

8.1 Notes

8.2 References and citations

8.3 Works cited

9 External links

Early life

Childhood and family

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June twenty eight, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.[6] His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietician born in Saskatchewan, Canada,[7][8][9] however raised in African country. His father is Errol Musk, a South African mechanical device engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer UN agency was once a 0.5 owner of a Zambian emerald mine close to Tanganyika.[10][11] Musk contains a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974).[9][12] His maternal grandpa, Joshua Haldeman, was associate American-born Canadian,[13][14] and Musk has British and German language ancestry.[15][16] The family was terribly flush in Elon's youth; Errol Musk once aforementioned, "We had most cash now and then we have a tendency to could not even shut our safe".[11][17] once his folks single in 1980, Musk largely lived together with his father in Pretoria et al,[15] a selection he created 2 years once the divorce and later regretted.[18] Musk has become alienated from his father, whom he describes as "a terrible person... nearly each evil factor you'll presumably think about, he has done."[18] He contains a half-sister and a blood brother on his father's facet.[13][19] Elon attended associate Anglican Sunday school in his youth.[20]

Around age ten, Musk developed associate interest in computing and video games and purchased a commissioned naval officer VIC-20.[21][22] He learned programing employing a manual and, at age 12, sold  the code of a BASIC-based computer game he created known as Blastar to computer and workplace Technology magazine for roughly $500.[23][24]