Elon Musk
June 28, 1971 (age 52)
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Citizenship South Africa
Canada
United States
Education University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
Title Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX
CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.
Owner and CTO of X, formerly Twitter
President of the Musk Foundation
Founder of The Boring Company, X Corp., and xAI
Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal)
Spouses Justine Wilson
Talulah Riley
Partners Amber Heard
Grimes
Children 11
Parents Errol Musk
Maye Musk
Relatives Kimbal Musk (brother)
Tosca Musk (sister)
Lyndon Rive (cousin)
Family Musk family
About Elon Musk
Elon Musk cofounded six companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX, and tunneling startup Boring Company.
He owns about 21% of Tesla between stock and options, but has pledged more than half his shares as collateral for personal loans of up to $3.5 billion.
SpaceX, founded in 2002, is worth nearly $150 billion after a $750 million tender offer in June 2023; it nearly quintupled its value in four years.
Boring Company, which aims to defeat traffic, raised $675 million in April 2022 at a $5.7 billion valuation.
Twitter's board agreed to sell the company to Musk for $44 billion in April 2022, after he disclosed a 9.1% stake and threatened a hostile takeover.
The deal closed in October 2022 after Musk tried to back out and Twitter sued. Musk owns an estimated 74% of the company, which is now called X.
"I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area and then you reason up from there."
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