Elon musk is an innovator, a playboy and one of the worlds richest man, Here is the complete info
Elon Reeve Musk is an American business magnate and investor who was born in California. He is SpaceX’s founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer; Tesla, Inc.’s angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect; The Boring Company’s founder; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. Musk has an estimated net worth of around US$266 billion as of August 17, 2022, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes’ real-time billionaire list.
Musk was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but instead chose to pursue a business career, co-founding Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. In 1999, Compaq paid $307 million for the startup. Musk co-founded online bank X.com the same year, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. eBay paid $1.5 billion for PayPal in 2002.
Musk is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch descent. Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Saskatchewan, Canada, raised in South Africa, is his mother. Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer, is his father. He was a half-owner of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika. Musk has a younger brother named Kimbal, born in 1972, and a younger sister named Tosca, born in 1974. He has a paternal half-sister and a half-brother.
Have a look at some of the inventions of Elon Musk:
Tesla Roadster
Tesla Motors introduced the Tesla Roadster, an all-electric sports car, in 2008. The Roadster was the first production car with a highway-capable all-electric drivetrain and the first to use lithium-ion battery cells.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is a two-stage launch vehicle that was designed and built by the company. The Falcon 9 first flew in 2010 and has since launched numerous satellites and spacecraft into orbit.
Hyperloop
The Hyperloop is a high-speed transportation system that uses magnetic levitation to transport passengers or cargo at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour (1,220 kilometers per hour). Musk first proposed the idea in 2013, and it has since been developed by a number of companies.
SolarCity
SolarCity is a solar energy services company based in California that was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive. SolarCity is now the largest residential solar panel provider in the United States.
Tesla Model S
The Tesla Model S is a five-door liftback sedan that was first released in 2012. The Model S was Tesla Motors’ first mass-produced electric vehicle and remains one of the company’s most popular models.
Tesla Model X
The Tesla Model X is an all-electric crossover SUV that debuted in 2015. The Model X is Tesla Motors’ first SUV, as well as the company’s fastest and most expensive vehicle.
Tesla Powerwall
The Tesla Powerwall is a home battery system that stores energy from solar panels or the grid for later use. The Powerwall was released in 2015 and has since become one of the most popular home battery systems on the market.
SpaceX Dragon Capsule
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is designed to transport cargo and astronauts to and from orbit. The Dragon has delivered cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) and is being developed to carry humans as well.
Tesla Gigafactory
The Tesla Gigafactory is a factory in Nevada being built by Tesla Motors to produce lithium-ion batteries. Once completed, the Gigafactory is expected to be the world’s largest structure, producing more lithium-ion batteries than all other factories combined.
The Boring Company
Musk founded The Boring Company in 2016 as a tunnel construction company. The company’s goal is to reduce traffic congestion by constructing underground tunnels. The Boring Company has already started work on a test tunnel in Los Angeles.
X.com and PayPal
Musk later co-founded X.com, an online financial services, and e-mail payment company, in 1999. X.com was one of the first federally insured online banks, with over 200,000 customers signing up within the first few months of operation. Despite the fact that Musk founded the company, investors saw him as inexperienced and replaced him by the end of the year with Intuit CEO Bill Harris.
To avoid competition, X.com merged with online bank Confinity in 2000, as Confinity’s money-transfer service PayPal was more popular than X.com’s. Musk then returned to the merged company as CEO. His preference for Microsoft over Unix-based software sparked a schism among the company’s employees, prompting Confinity’s founder, Peter Thiel, to resign.
In September 2000, the board fired Musk and replaced him with Thiel, compounding technological issues and a lack of a cohesive business model. Under Thiel’s leadership, the company shifted its focus to money transfer services and was renamed PayPal in 2001.
Musk’s most controversial moments:
Romantic Ups and Downs
From 2002 to 2008, Musk was married to Justine Wilson. The former spouses had their first child in 2002, but the child died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 10 weeks. In 2004, they had twins Vivian and Griffin, and in 2006, they had triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian.
Musk married for the second time in 2010 after his divorce from Talulah Riley. The couple divorced in 2012 before remarrying the following year. Later that year, the entrepreneur filed for divorce again, but the petition was withdrawn in August 2013, and the couple divorced again in 2016.
Musk began dating Amber Heard shortly after her high-profile divorce from Johnny Depp. Following their split in 2017, the philanthropist admitted he was having difficulty finding love again. Musk was later linked to Grimes, who he dated on-and-off from 2018 to 2022.
The Social Media Posts
Musk received backlash in July 2020 after tweeting that “pronouns suck.” His ex-girlfriend Grimes responded to the contentious post, saying, “I love you, but please turn off your phone or give me a [call].” I cannot condone hatred. Please halt this. I understand this isn’t in your heart.”
Tesla’s founder, for his part, later clarified his position. “I support trans people wholeheartedly, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare,” he tweeted in December 2020.
An Attempt to Buy Twitter
Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion in April 2022, after previously acquiring a portion of the company’s stock. Three months later, the Boring Company founder, who was Twitter’s largest shareholder, announced that he was canceling the potential acquisition. Twitter responded by filing a lawsuit against Musk.
Family Drama
Musk has previously made headlines for his large brood, which he has expressed a desire to expand over the years. Musk had two children with Grimes after having six children with Wilson.
Insider reported in July 2022 that Musk and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his Neuralink company, had two children together eight months earlier. He appeared to react to the news by tweeting, “I’m doing everything I can to help with the underpopulation crisis. By far the greatest threat to civilization is a declining birth rate.”
Rumors of an Affair
Musk blasted a Wall Street Journal report from July 2022 that claimed he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan.
“This is total bs,” he tweeted about his alleged relationship with Google cofounder Sergey Brin’s estranged wife at the time. “Sergey and I are friends who attended a party last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times in large groups. Nothing romantic here.”
“Haven’t even had sex in ages (sigh),” Musk added.
