30/04/2023
A LITTLE ABOUT ELON MUSK -THE SECOND WEALTHIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD
With an estimated net worth of around $192 billion as of March 27, 2023, Musk is the second-wealthiest person in the world, according to both the Bloomberg and Forbes.
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.
His father, Errol Musk, is a South African engineer, pilot, sailor, and property developer, who partly owned a mine in Zambia.
Elon is the founder and CEO of SpaceX; CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation.
He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18. 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. After two days, he dropped out and, with his brother Kimbal, co-founded the online city guide software company Zip2. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307 million and Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk received an EB-5 investor green card in 1997, which led to his U.S. citizenship in 2002.
With $175.8 million, Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, a spaceflight services company. In 2004, he was an early investor in the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla, Inc.). 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. The following year, he co-founded Neuralink—a neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces—and the Boring Company, a tunnel construction company. In 2022, his acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion was completed.