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 at SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around US$221.4 billion as of
July 2022,[4] Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes' real-time billionaire's list.[5][6]
Musk was born to White South African parents in Pretoria, where he grew up. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 17, 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 but decided instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the
web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. The same year, Musk co-founded
online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer, and space transport services company, of which he
serves as CEO and Chief Engineer. In 2004, he was an early investor in
electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He
became its chairman and product architect, eventually 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 research company
promoting friendly artificial intelligence (AI). In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain-computer interfaces and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company. He agreed to purchase the major American social networking service Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion. Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain transportation system, and is the president of the Musk Foundation, an organization that donates to scientific research and education.
Musk has been criticized for making unscientific and controversial
statements, such as spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, he was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a
private takeover of Tesla; he settled with the SEC but did not admit
guilt, and he temporarily stepped down from his Tesla chairmanship. In
2019, he won a defamation case brought against him by a British caver
who had advised in the Tham Luang cave rescue.
1995 — Applied to Netscape for a job and got rejected
1996 — Was forced out of his CEO position from his own company Zip2
1998 — Struggled to make PayPal succeed
1999 — Almost died when he crashed his $1M Mclaren F1
2000 — Was kicked out of Paypal while on his honeymoon
2000 — Got sick with malaria
2001 — Russia refused to sell him a rocket
2006 — First SpaceX rocket launched failed
2007 — Second SpaceX rocket failed
2008 — Third SpaceX rocket failed with NASA satellites onboard!
2013 — First rocket landing failed
2014 — Several Tesla Model S caught on fire
2015 — Four rocket landings failed
2016 — Model X deliveries were delayed for over a year
2016 — 300M Facebook satellite rocket launch exploded
2018 — Broke the internet when he took a puff of cannabis on a live show.
2018 — The SEC filed a lawsuit against Musk
2019 — Model 3 deliveries were delayed
2020 — TESLA stock became the most shorted stock in history
What do I like about Elon Musk?
I admire this man’s courage and relentless character.
While most of his critics would shrink before small obstacles in life, we can't deny that this man has proven to be an unstoppable genius of our era!
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