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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/ EE-lon; born

June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and
investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief
engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO
and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner
and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The
Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink
and OpenAI; and president of the
philanthropic Musk Foundation. With an
estimated net worth of around $139 billion
as of December 23, 2022, primarily from his
ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX,[4][5]
Musk is the second-wealthiest person in
the world, according to both the Bloomberg
Billionaires Index and Forbes's real-time
billionaires list.[6][7]

Elon Musk
FRS

Musk in 2018

Born Elon Reeve Musk

June 28, 1971
(age 51)
Pretoria, Transvaal,
South Africa

Education University of
Pennsylvania (BA,
BS)

Title Founder, CEO and

chief engineer of
SpaceX
CEO and product
architect of Tesla,
Inc.
CEO of Twitter, Inc.
President of the
Musk Foundation
Founder of The
Boring Company
and X.com (now
part of PayPal)
Co-founder of
Neuralink, OpenAI
and Zip2

Spouses Justine Wilson

(m. 2000; div. 2008)
Talulah Riley
(m. 2010; div. 2012)
(m. 2013; div. 2016)

Partner Grimes (2018–2021)

[1]

Children 10[a][3]

Parents Errol Musk

Maye Musk

Family Musk family

Awards List of honors and

awards

Signature

Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa,

and briefly attended at the University of
Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18,
acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-
born mother. Two years later, he
matriculated at Queen's University and
transferred to the University of
Pennsylvania, where he received bachelor's
degrees in economics and physics. He
moved to California in 1995 to attend
Stanford University. After two days, he
dropped out and with his brother Kimbal,
co-founded the online city guide software
company Zip2. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired
by Compaq for $307 million and Musk co-
founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com
merged with Confinity in 2000 to form
PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion
in 2002.

With $175.8 million, Musk founded SpaceX

in 2002, a spaceflight services company. In
2004, he was an early investor in the
electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors,
Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He became its
chairman and product architect, assuming
the position of CEO in 2008. In 2006, he
helped create SolarCity, a solar energy
company that was later acquired by Tesla
and became Tesla Energy. In 2015, he co-
founded OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial
intelligence research company. The
following year, he co-founded Neuralink—a
neurotechnology company developing
brain–computer interfaces—and The Boring
Company, a tunnel construction company.
Musk has also proposed a hyperloop high-
speed vactrain transportation system. In
2022, his acquisition of Twitter for $44
billion was completed.

Musk has made controversial statements on

politics and technology, particularly on
Twitter, and is a polarizing figure. He has
been criticized for making unscientific and
misleading statements, including spreading
COVID-19 misinformation. In 2018, the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
sued Musk for falsely tweeting that he had
secured funding for a private takeover of
Tesla. Musk stepped down as chairman of
Tesla and paid a $20 million fine as part of a
settlement agreement with the SEC.

Early life

Business career

Other activities

Wealth

Personal views and Twitter

usage

Personal life

Public perception

Notes

References

Bibliography

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