Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. Forbes estimated his net worth at US$144. 1 billion, making him the second-richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos.
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Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. As of December 8, 2020, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$144. 1 billion, making him the second-richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos. Musk has been the subject of criticism due to unorthodox or unscientific stances and highly publicized controversies. He has also received substantial criticism for his views on artificial intelligence, public transportation, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant and property developer. His mother is Maye Musk, a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but raised in South African. Musk also has a younger sister, Tosca, the CEO of the video streaming site Passionflix. During his childhood, he developed an interest in computing while using the Commodore VIC-20 VIC. He learned using a computer manual and, by the age of 12, sold the code of a video game called Blastar to Office magazine for approximately USD 500. He also has half-brother and a half-half-brother on his father’s side. Musk is married to Kimbal Musk, who was an early business partner of his, Kimbal and Tosca, and a younger daughter, Kourtney Musk.
Musk’s net worth jumped by up to US$7 billion after end of November 2020. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018. He moved to California in 1995 to begin a Ph. D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University, but dropped out after two days to pursue a business career. He co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for USD 307 million in 1999. Musk then founded X. com, an online bank, which merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for USD 1. 5 billion in October 2002. In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla Motors, Inc. in 2004, the year after it was founded, becoming its product architect that year and its CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company. In 2015, he co- founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In December 2016, he founded The Borers Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles. In 2018, he falsely tweeted that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla at USD 420 a share.
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