Elon Musk

TESLA / SPACEX 

Elon Musk
FOUNDER / CHEIF ENGG. / CEO

Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈiːlɒn / EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business executive and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc .; founder of The Boring Company; and founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of US $ 216 billion as of June 2022, Musk is the richest man in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes billion real-time list. 

Musk was born to White South African parents in Pretoria, where he grew up. He studied for a while at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at the age of 17, gaining citizenship from his Canadian-born mother. He did his matric at Queen's University and went on to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Economics and Physics. He moved to California in 1995 to study at Stanford University but decided to pursue a career in business, establishing the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. It was first acquired by Compaq for $ 307 million in 1999. That same year, Musk launched online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to launch PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion.

In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and aerospace services company, in which he worked as CEO and Chief Engineer. In 2004, he was the first investor in electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He became its chairman and product builder, eventually taking over as CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar power company that was later acquired by Tesla and became Tesla Energy. In 2015, he founded OpenAI, a non-profit research company that promotes artificial intelligence (AI). In 2016, he founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on improving brain communication with computers, and founded Boring Company, a tunnel construction company. He also agreed to buy the largest American telecommunications service Twitter in 2022 for $ 44 billion. Musk proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed immunization program. He is the president of the Musk Foundation, an organization that contributes to scientific research and education.

Musk has been criticized for making unscientific and controversial statements, such as spreading false information about the COVID-19 epidemic. In 2018, he was accused by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of lying about tweeting that he had secured funding to take Tesla privately; he settled with the SEC, but did not plead guilty, and temporarily stepped down from his position as Tesla chairman. In 2019, he won a defamation suit filed against him by a British cave adviser who rescued the Tham Luang cave.

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