Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American businessman. He moved to Canada and later became a U.S. citizen.
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| Born | Elon Reeve Musk June 28, 1971 |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
| Net worth | US$ 235.1 billion (January 2021)[1] |
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| Political party | Independent Republican |
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| Partner(s) | Grimes (2018–2021) |
| Children | 11 (1 deceased) |
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| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (2018) |
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He became rich through several technology projects, including an online finance company which merged with PayPal in the year 2000.[2]
Musk is the current CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., a company that makes electric vehicles. He is also the CEO of Solar City, a company that makes solar panels, and the CEO & CTO of SpaceX, an aerospace company.
In 2022, he became the owner of the social media site Twitter after buying it for USD $44 billion.[3]
Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's real-time billionaires list.[4][5] In 2021, he was Time Person of the Year.
Early life and career
Elon Musk was born to a Canadian mother and a South African-born British father in Pretoria, South Africa on June 28, 1971.[6] His parents divorced in 1981 and he mainly lived with his father in different places in South Africa.[7] He went to Waterkloof House Preparatory School and graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. He then moved to Canada in 1988 when he was 17 after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. He got it before his South African military service was to begin. He felt that it would be easier to emigrate to the United States from Canada than from South Africa. Musk and his brother started Zip2, a software company, in 1995. In 1999 he sold it and became a millionaire. He then started X.com, which merged with the company Confinity to make PayPal. X.com was then renamed to PayPal, and he focused on the growing part of the company.[8][9] He then started SpaceX and became the CEO of Tesla.
Education
He spent two years at the Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ontario. He moved to the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He stayed a year to finish his second bachelor's degree in physics. Then he moved to California to attempt to get a PhD in applied physics at Stanford but he left the program after only two days because he wanted to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations. These were to start businesses in the internet, renewable energy and outer space.[10] He became an American citizen in 2002.[11]
Projects
At the end of 2017, Musk founded The Boring Company which focuses on tunneling and infrastructure. He mentioned Los Angeles traffic as the reason for starting this company. In March 2017 Elon Musk announced he had started another company that aimed to merge human brains with computers called Neuralink.
In April 2018 he was worth over $10 billion, making him the 37th most wealthy American.[12] Musk is also known for helping design and create the Falcon Heavy rocket, which successfully launched on February 6, 2019.
In 2022, Musk bought Twitter after complaining about Internet censorship and criticizing Twitter for suspending the Babylon Bee. During his first few weeks as CEO, he has attracted criticism from some people. Many of them criticize him for laying off many employees at once, as well as appearing to have no interest in moderating hate speech.[13]
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Musk graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in South Africa.
Then-NASA Administrator Charles Bolden congratulating Musk by the SpaceX Dragon following its 2012 mission
Musk examining F9R Dev1 debris in 2014
50 Starlink satellites shortly before deployment to low Earth orbit, 2019
Musk next to a Tesla Model S, 2011
Musk before a Model X at the 2014 Tesla Inc. annual shareholder meeting
SolarCity solar-panel installation vans in 2009
Musk discussing a Neuralink device during a live demonstration in 2020
Musk during the 2018 inauguration of the Boring Test Tunnel in Hawthorne, California
Musk giving a speech to SpaceX employees in 2012
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References
- ↑ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Bloomberg. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ↑ "Elon Musk's 5 Best Investments".
- ↑ Feiner, Lauren (April 25, 2022). "Twitter accepts Elon Musk's buyout deal". CNBC. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
- ↑ Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bloomberg L.P.. https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/.
- ↑ "Real Time Billionaires". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/.
- ↑ "Elon Musk Biography: Age, Net Worth, Wife, Family". Quick Pedia. Retrieved August 17, 2024.
- ↑ "Rocket man: the otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk". San Jose Mercury News. April 10, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Tesla Motors and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk buys $17 million Bel Air mansion". San Francisco Chronicle. January 4, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Something New Under the Sun". Slate. November 5, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Inspirations with Elon Musk". OnInnovation. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Triumph of His Will". Esquire. November 15, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ↑ "List of billionaires". Forbes. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
- ↑ Knight, Will (November 25, 2022). "Here's Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk's Twitter". Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/heres-proof-hate-speech-is-more-viral-on-elon-musks-twitter/. Retrieved November 25, 2022.