Elon Musk

Elon Musk FRS
Musk in 2023
Born	Elon Reeve Musk (1971-06-28) June 28, 1971 (age 53) Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship	South Africa (1971–present) Canada (1989–present) United States (2002–present)
Alma mater	Queen's University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (BS)
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Years active	1995–present
Title	Founder, CEO, Lead Designer of SpaceX CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. Owner, CTO and Chairman of X (formerly Twitter) Co-founder, CEO of Neuralink Founder of The Boring Company Co-founder of Zip2 Founder of X.com Co-founder of OpenAI Chairman of SolarCity
Political party	Independent Republican
Spouses	Justine Wilson ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2008)​ Talulah Riley ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2012)​ (m. 2013; div. 2016)
Partner	Grimes (2018–2021)
Children	11 (1 deceased)
Parents	Errol Musk (father) Maye Musk (mother)
Relatives	Kimbal Musk (brother) Tosca Musk (sister) Lyndon Rive (cousin)
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2018)
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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American businessman. He moved to Canada and later became a U.S. citizen.

He became rich through several technology projects, including an online finance company which merged with PayPal in the year 2000.^[2]

Musk is the current CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., a company that makes electric vehicles. He is also the CEO of Solar City, a company that makes solar panels, and the CEO & CTO of SpaceX, an aerospace company.

In 2022, he became the owner of the social media site Twitter which he later gave a new name known as X after buying it for USD $44 billion.^[3]

Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's real-time billionaires list.^[4][5] In 2021, he was Time Person of the Year.

1. ↑ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on May 31, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
2. ↑ "Elon Musk's 5 Best Investments". Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
3. ↑ Feiner, Lauren (April 25, 2022). "Twitter accepts Elon Musk's buyout deal". CNBC. Archived from the original on April 26, 2022. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
4. ↑ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
5. ↑ "Real Time Billionaires". Forbes. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2023.