Early Life and Education

Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, the oldest of three
children.2 His father was a South African engineer, his mother a Canadian model and
nutritionist. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived primarily with his father who
was "a terrible human being” as he told when he became an adult.“I had a terrible
upbringing. I had a lot of adversity growing up. One thing I worry about with my kids is
they don’t face enough adversity,”

When he was a child he attended a private school in South Africa and he was bullied: they
beated him and he also went to the hospital. That period was awful. He made few friends.

Early Accomplishments

Technology became an escape for Musk. He created Blastar, a video game when he was
just 12 years old. He sold it to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for $500.6

Musk's College Years

At 17, Musk moved to Canada and obtained the Canadian citizenship through his mother.
He enrolled in Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario where he met Justine Wilson, an
aspiring writer. They married and had five sons together, twins and triplets, before
divorcing in 2008.

Entering the U.S.

After two years at Queen’s University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania
in the U.S.A.. Musk graduated with a bachelor of science degree in physics
and economics in 1997. He enrolled in graduate school in physics at Stanford
University in California, but he left after only two days because he felt that the Internet had
much more potential to change society than work in physics. In 1995 he founded Zip2, a
company that provided maps and business directories to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2
was bought by the computer manufacturer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then
founded an online financial services company, X.com, which later became PayPal.The online
auction eBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

Tesla

Musk had always been interested in the possibilities of electric cars, and in
2004 he became one of the major funders of Tesla Motors (later renamed Tesla),
an electric car company founded by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc
Tarpenning . In 2006 Tesla introduced its first car, the Roadster , which could
travel 245 miles (394 km) on a single charge. It was a sports car that could go
from 0 to 60 miles (97 km) per hour in less than four seconds. The Model 3, a
less-expensive vehicle, went into production in 2017 and became the best-
.
selling electric car of all time.

SpaceX

SpaceX was created in 2002 by Elon Musk to reduce space transportation costs to enable
the colonization of Mars. Musk’s goal is to make a world that could support life on other
planets. He wants to create a human colony on Mars because  he hopes to save humanity.
He believes setting up a permanent outpost on new worlds safeguards the species and
ensures humanity will survive any calamity that might devastate Earth, whether it’s an
asteroid, killer robots, irreversible climate change, or some other unpredictable events. He
wants SpaceX manufactures the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, several rocket
engines, Cargo Dragon, crew spacecraft, and Starlink communications satellites.

Twitter

Musk joined the social media service  Twitter  in 2009, and, as @elonmusk, he
became one of the most popular accounts on the site, with more than 85
million followers as of 2022. Musk was critical of Twitter’s commitment to
principles of free speech, in light of the company’s content-moderation policies.
Early in April 2022 he made a bid for the entire company, at a value of $54.20
a share, for $44 billion. Twitter’s board accepted the deal,

Curiosities

He has recently revealed that he has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectre disorder.

Musk’s early interests in philosophy, science fiction, and fantasy novels are reflected in his
idealism / aidielism/ and concern with human progress—and in his business career. He
works in fields he has identified /aidentifaid/ as crucial /crusciol to humanity's future.
They are the transition to renewable energy sources, space exploration, and the Internet.

Is Elon Musk Married?

Elon Musk has been divorced three times—twice from his second wife, Talulah Riley. Since
2018, he has been in a relationship with the Canadian singer/songwriter Claire Elise
Boucher, professionally known as Grimes, with whom he has a son. He also has five sons
from his first marriage to Justine Musk.

How Rich Is Elon Musk?

Elon Musk's net worth was estimated at $256 billion as of April 2022, making him the
wealthiest human on the planet.
During his May 8, 2021 appearance on the TV show  Saturday Night Live, Musk revealed
that he has Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. "I'm actually making
history tonight as the first person with Asperger's to host SNL. Or at least the first person
to admit it," he said. How does neurodevelopment condition manifest itself? "I don't
always have a lot of intonation or variation in how I speak, which I'm told makes for great
comedy," Musk explained.3 0