Biography
Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is one of the richest individuals in the world, with a net worth of US$252 billion. The business magnate is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who sits on the boards of several corporations.
He is a Product Architect and Operations Manager at Tesla Inc., and the Founder, Chief Engineer, and CEO of SpaceX.
Elon Musk is also the founder of the Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. His latest career move was the acquisition of social media app Twitter for a reported $44 billion.
CEO of Tesla Motors
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| Full name: | Elon Reeve Musk FRS |
| Stage name: | Elon Musk |
| Born: | June 28, 1971 (age 53) |
| Place of birth: | Pretoria, South Africa |
| Company: | Tesla |
| Nationality: | USA, South Africa, Canada |
| Height: | 1.80 minutes |
| Parents: | Errol Musk, Maye Musk |
| Siblings: | Kimbal Musk, Tosca Musk |
| Wife • Husband/wife: | Talulah Riley (married 2013–2016), Talulah Riley (married 2010–2012), Justine Musk (married 2000–2008) |
| Girlfriend • Partner: | Grimes, Amber Heard (formerly) |
| The children: | X Æ A-Xii, Nevada Alexander Musk, Damian Musk, Xavier Musk, Griffin Musk, Exa Dark Sideræl, Saxon Musk, Kai Musk |
| Job: | Entrepreneur • Investor |
| Net worth: | 252 billion US dollars |
Early life
Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has South African, Canadian, British, and Dutch ancestry. He was born on June 28, 1971, to Errol Musk (father) and Maye Musk (mother). His parents named him Elon Reeve Musk. He is 53 years old.
His father was a white South African electrical engineer, pilot, sailor and property developer. While his mother was a model and nutritionist. Elon Musk was the first child of his parents.
He was born and raised in Pretoria, Transvaal region of South Africa. He has a younger brother named Kimbal Musk, born in 1972. While his younger sister, Tosca Musk, was born in 1974.
Elon Musk grew up in an upper-class family as his parents were able to afford a lavish lifestyle for him and his siblings. His father, Errol Musk, was one of the owners of a Zambian emerald mine, which could be found near Lake Tanganyika.
In 1980, his parents divorced. He was only nine years old at the time. Two years after the divorce, he decided to move in with his father.
Education
As a child, Elon Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School. He also attended Bryanston High School and graduated from Pretoria Boys High School.
He studied at the University of Pretoria for five months. He then moved to Canada and was accepted into Queen’s University, Kingston.
Elon Musk attended the school for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1997 with a double bachelor’s degree in physics and economics.
Career
After graduating from college, Elon Musk wanted to pursue graduate school and applied to Stanford University. However, he abandoned that goal and chose to pursue a career in business.
He started his career by co-founding Zip2, a web software company, with his brother, Kimbal Musk. Elon Musk recorded his first success as an entrepreneur with this startup, which was later acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.
After selling Zip2, he co-founded another technology company called X.com, an online bank. He merged this company with another technology company, Confinity, and the new company was called PayPal. This was in 2000. eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002.
In 2002, Elon Musk decided to start his third business, which he named SpaceX. The company is an aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company. He is the CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX.
He then joined Tesla Motors, Inc. as President and Product Architect in 2004. He became CEO in 2008. He was one of the co-founders of SolarCity, a solar energy services company. The company was founded in 2006. SolarCity was later acquired by Tesla and renamed Tesla Energy.
In 2015 and 2016, Elon Musk co-founded the companies OpenAI and Neuralink. The former is a non-profit research organization promoting friendly artificial intelligence. While the latter is a neurotechnology company founded to develop brain-computer interfaces.
Elon Musk also founded a tunnel construction company called The Boring Company. This company was founded in 2016.
In 2022, he made a $44 billion offer for the social networking app Twitter, which was made public. Elon Musk stated that he was interested in growing the app into a larger corporation. The company’s board of directors agreed to Elon Musk’s takeover in April 2022.
Social media
Billionaire Elon Musk has amassed a huge following on social media app Twitter over the past few years.
He has over 87.8 million followers on Twitter.
- Twitter Username: @elonmusk
Personal life
Elon Musk has been married twice. He married his first wife, Justine Wilson, a Canadian author, in 2000. The couple’s first child, a son named Nevada Alexander Musk, was born in 2002. However, the child died after ten weeks of life. The cause of his death was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
The couple had twin sons, Xavier Musk and Griffen Musk, who were born in 2004. The couple later had three sons, Kai Musk, Saxton Musk, and Damian Musk, in 2006. Their marriage hit a rough patch in 2008 and they divorced. Both parents share custody of their five sons.
Elon Musk gave love another chance in 2008 when he married British actress Talulah Riley in 2010. However, the marriage did not last long and the couple divorced in 2012. Elon Musk and Talulah Riley remarried in 2013, and they divorced again in 2016.
Elon Musk has been in a relationship with Grimes, a Canadian musician. The couple had their first child, a boy, in May 2020. While their second child, a girl, was born in December 2021.
Elon Musk has a total of eight children, namely X Æ A-Xii, Nevada Alexander Musk, Damian Musk, Xavier Musk, Griffin Musk, Exa Dark Sideræl, Saxon Musk and Kai Musk.
He has lived in California, where SpaceX and Tesla are headquartered, since the early 2000s. He recently moved to Texas. He once dated Amber Heard, the ex-wife of Hollywood actor Johnny Depp.
Net worth
The world’s richest billionaire Elon Musk has amassed his fortune by founding large corporations and investing in several successful startups.
Elon Musk’s net worth is officially estimated to be $252 billion.
