Who is Elon MUSK?

 

Elon MUSK is an American business magnet who prominently work as the CEO of TESLA and SPACE-X. He owns companies like TESLA, SPACE X, BORING COMPANY, OPEN AI, NEURALINK.  He is planning to build future by sending humans to MARS and colonize it. He is well known for his work in SPACE-X and ECO-FRIENDLY electric car company TESLA. MUSK owns a world record for making up to $25 Billion  a day.

PERSONAL DETAILS 

Born on: 28 June 1971

Net worth: 25,380 crores USD (2021) 

Spouse: Talulah Riley (m. 2013–2016), Talulah Riley (m. 2010–2012), Justine Musk (m. 2000–2008)

Children: X Æ A-Xii, Nevada Alexander Musk, Damian Musk, Griffin Musk, Xavier Musk, Saxon Musk, Kai Musk

Parents: Errol Musk, Maye Musk

EDUCATION

Aware it would be easier to enter the United States from Canada,^[24] Musk applied for a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother.^[25][26] While awaiting the documentation, he attended the University of Pretoria for five months; this allowed Musk to avoid mandatory service in the South African military.^[27] Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989, and lived with a second-cousin in Saskatchewan for a year,^[28] working odd jobs at a farm and lumber-mill.^[29] In 1990, Musk entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.^[30][31] Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.^[32][33][34]

In 1994, Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley during the summer: at energy storage startup Pinnacle Research Institute, which researched electrolytic ultracapacitors for energy storage, and at the Palo Alto-based startup Rocket Science Games.^[35] In 1995, Musk was accepted to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in materials science at Stanford University in California.^[36] Musk attempted to get a job at Netscape but never received a response to his inquiries.^[25] He dropped out of Stanford after two days, deciding instead to join the Internet boom and launch an Internet startup.^[37]

X.COM AND PAYPAL

In 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company.^[48] The startup was one of the first federally insured online banks, and, within its initial months, over 200,000 customers joined the service.^[49] The company's investors saw Musk as inexperienced and had him replaced with Intuit CEO Bill Harris by the end of the year.^[50] The following year, X.com merged with online bank Confinity to prevent unnecessary competition.^[38][50][51] Founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel,^[52] Confinity had its own money-transfer service, PayPal, which was more popular than X.com's service.^[46][53] Within the merged company, Musk returned as CEO. Musk's preference for Microsoft software over Linux created a rift in the company and caused Thiel to resign.^[54] Due to resulting technological issues and lack of a cohesive business model, the board ousted Musk and replaced him with Thiel in September 2000.^{[55][note 2]} Under Thiel, the company focused on the PayPal service and was renamed PayPal in 2001.^[57][58] In 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk—the largest shareholder with 11.7%—received over $100 million.^[59][60]