Who Is The Tycoon Elon Musk?

Elon Musk is a famous business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who became the richest man in the world in 2021. He has been ranked first on Forbes Billionaires List in 2012. He is the CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX and also an angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla. Learn everything you need to know about Elon Musk in this article.

Elon Musk biography (Bio)

Elon is a business tycoon who was born on 28^th June 1971 in Pretoria, Transvaal in South Africa. He is 50 years as of writing this article. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX. He was born to Errol Musk an electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer, and Maye Musk a model and dietitian. His father is a white South African and his mother was born in Saskatchewan in Canada but was brought up in South Africa. Elon has 2 siblings Kimbal and Tosca.

He is from a rich family background. Joshua Haldeman his grandfather was an adventurous American-born Canadian. Elon is from Pennsylvania with Dutch and British roots. Musk’s adenoids were removed at a very tender age because doctors feared he was deaf. His mother Maye later had a different opinion about his condition. His parents got divorced and he had to live with his father.

He became interested in video games and computers when was 10 years old. Elon bought a Commodore VIC-20 for himself and studied how to write codes from a book. He made and sold the code for Blastar, a BASIC-based videogame to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500.

He went to Waterkloof House Preparatory School and Bryanston High School. He graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Elon Musk Wiki

Date of Birth	28^th June 1971
Place of Birth	Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Marital Status	Divorced
Profession	Engineer, Business Magnate, Investor, and Philanthropist
Nationality	American
Religion	Christianity
Spoken Language	English
Zodiac Sign	Cancer

Elon Musk Career

He founded a web software company called Zip2 with his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri with funds from angel investors. This company started in a small office in Palo Alto. They developed and sold internet city guides with maps, directions, and yellow pages for the newspaper publishing industry.

They started the company in 1995. They had contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307million in February 1999. He co-founded X.com, online financial services, and e-mail payment company in 1999. This company was the first federally insured online bank and had over 200,000 customers.

He was replaced with Thiel by the board in September 2000.X.com changed to PayPal in 2001 In May 2002, he founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. traded as SpaceX. SpaceX’s first launch of the Falcon 1 rocket was in 2006. He is the CEO and Chief Engineer. He became chairman of Tesla’s board of directors. In February 2004, he invested $6.5million in Tesla and became the majority.

Elon Musk Net worth

Elon was the largest shareholder of PayPal with 11.72% of the shares. When PayPal was sold to eBay in 2002, Elon made $175.8million. With a net worth of $2 billion, he was listed first on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012. He had a net worth of $27million at the beginning of 2020 and by the end of 2020, his net worth increased to $150 billion.

He became the third richest in the world in November and the second richest a week later. He passed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person in January 2021 with a net worth of $185billion.After Tesla shares rose, he was declared by Forbes as the world’s richest person with a net worth of over $200 billion.

He became the first person with a net worth of $300 billion in November 2021. Tesla accounts for around three-quarters of Musk’s fortune. His net worth is estimated to be around $265billion as of May 2022.

Is Elon Musk Married?

Elon met his first wife Justine Wilson when he was at Queen’s University. They got married in 2000. They had their first son but he died in 2002 of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks. The couple tried again and gave birth to twins, Xavier and Griffin in April 2004. After the twins, they had triplets called Kai, Saxon, and Damian in 2006. The couple shared custody of their five sons after their divorce in 2008.

After his divorce, he began dating Talulah Riley an English actress. The couple got married at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland in September 2010. They got divorced in 2012 and remarried in 2013. Elon got divorced again in 2016. After his divorce, he started Amber Heard for several months in 2017. After Amber, he started dating Grimes in May 2018. He had a son with Grimes in May 2020. He also had a daughter with her via surrogate. The couple got separated. He has 8 children. He is now single.