About Elon Musk
Elon Musk is an Entrepreneur from South Africa, and is well known as the founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, PayPal, Neutralink, The boring company and OpenAl. He holds the citizenship of Canada, United States and Africa. He has achieved much name and fame in such young age, according to Forbes; he is ranked at number 40th position in the list of World’s billionaire list.
Early life
Elon Musk was born as Elon Reeve Musk on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. Talking about his parents and siblings, his father Errol Musk was an engineer, his mother Maye Musk was a former British Canadian model, Elon Musk was the eldest among three siblings. His parents divorced in year 1980, when Elon was just 9 years old. He was raised in South Africa, by his father only. He completed his education from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1990 and later did degree in Physics and Economics from University of Pennsylvania. He also did doctorate in design from ‘Art Center College of Design’ and also obtained honorary doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from
University of Surrey.
Career
Elon Musk started his amateur career, in field of his interest, which was technology and entrepreneurship in year 1995, he started out with his brother Kimbal Musk and developed a company ‘Zip2’ whose main motive was to provide services to newspaper clients like ‘The New York Times’ and ‘Chicago Tribune’. His next stint was an online financial service ‘x.Com’ which was merged with ‘PayPal’ later. In 2002, he invented ‘SpaceX’, within seven years, the company had designed the ‘Falcon’ line of space launch vehicles and the ‘Dragon’ line of multi-purpose spacecraft and was making history with their privately funded innovation. ‘SpaceX’ received contracts from NASA to create a launch craft to deliver cargo to the ‘International Space Station’. Elon Muskhad ineterst in electric cars, and in 2004 he became one of the major funders of Tesla Motors (later renamed Tesla), an electric car company founded by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
Personal Life
Elon Musk has been married thrice times in his life. He firstly got married Canadian author Justine Wilson in 2000. They together gave birth to 6 sons and got divorced in year 2008. Later Elon got married to an English actress Talulah Riley in 2008 they got separated in 2012. They both remarried and again filed divorce. Right now, Elon Musk is rumored to be in relationship with musician Grimes.
Net worth
As per information available on web sources, Alexey Elon Musk’s net worth is estimated to be $20.7 billion.