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Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$402 billion as of February 8, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [415] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [416] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX.
Elon Musk is a businessman known predominantly for his leading roles in the automotive company Tesla, Inc. and the space company SpaceX. Musk is also known for his ownership of technology company X Corp. and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
Elon Musk speaking at the inauguration of the test tunnel in Hawthorne, California, December 2018. In early 2018, the Boring Company was spun out from SpaceX and into a separate corporate entity. [13] Somewhat less than 10% of equity was given to early employees, and over 90% to Elon Musk. Early employees came from a variety of different ...
When Musk asked him to buy a part, an “electro-mechanical actuator” quoted at $120,000, with a budget of $5,000, Davis did the impossible— designing a new actuator in nine months that cost ...
How did Elon Musk start making money? Elon Musk began building his fortune by starting the company Zip2. The company was acquired by Compaq in 1999 for $307 million, of which a 27-year-old Musk ...
In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. One year later, the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal.In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.
Elon Musk made big waves in the cryptocurrency market earlier this year when he announced that Tesla had purchased $1.5 billion of Bitcoin, even accepting it as payment for the company's famously
Musk has defended his wealth by saying he is accumulating resources for humanity's outward expansion to space. [12] At the start of 2020, Elon Musk had a net worth of $27 billion. [13] By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150 billion, mostly driven by his ownership of around 20% of Tesla stock. [14]