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Elon Reeve Musk is an American businessman, entrepreneur, media tycoon and investor. He is born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. Musk is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX and the co-founder of Neuralink, PayPal and OpenAI. He is also an early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, and the founder of The Boring Company.
According to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list, Musk is the world's wealthiest individual, with an estimated net worth of around 273 billion dollars as of April 2022. On April 25, he closed a deal to buy social networking platform Twitter for US$44 billion in the belief that he will unlock this social media platform's potential to the fullest.
Scroll down to know some interesting facts about Elon Musk.
Facts About Elon Musk
1.
Musk
was
born
to
a
Canadian
mother
and
a
White
South
African
father.
2.
He
attended
the
University
of
Pretoria
for
a
short
time
before
emigrating
to
Canada
at
the
age
of
17
to
evade
conscription,
a
compulsory
enrollment
in
a
country's
armed
forces.
3.
He
attended
Queen's
University
for
two
years
before
transferring
to
the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
where
he
earned
a
bachelor's
degree
in
economics
and
physics.
4.
In
1995,
he
co-founded
Zip2,
a
web
software
company
with
his
brother
Kimbal.
The
company
was
bought
by
Compaq
for
307
million
dollars
In
1999.
5.
In
the
same
year,
Musk
co-founded
an
online
banking
company
X.com,
that
in
2000,
merged
with
Confinity
to
establish
PayPal
Inc.
6.
In
2002,
eBay
bought
Paypal
for
1.5
billion
dollars.
7.
In
the
same
year,
Musk
founded
SpaceX
and
became
its
CEO
and
Chief
Engineer.
SpaceX
is
an
aerospace
manufacturer
and
space
transportation
services
company.
8.
Two
years
later,
in
2004,
he
joined
the
electric
vehicle
firm
Tesla
as
chairman
and
product
architect
and
became
the
company's
CEO
in
2008.
9.
He
co-founded
OpenAI
in
2015,
a
nonprofit
research
organisation
dedicated
to
friendly
artificial
intelligence
10.
He
co-founded
Neuralink
in
2016
which
is
a
neurotechnology
business
that
develops
brain-computer
interfaces.
11.
In
the
same
year,
he
also
founded
The
Boring
Company,
a
tunnel
construction
company.
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