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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and his ownership of Twitter, as well as in the United States government as a senior advisor to President Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The Musk family is a prominent family with roots in South Africa, Canada, England, and the United States, whose most famous member is billionaire Elon Musk.It also includes his parents Maye Musk, a model and author, and Errol Musk, a mine-owner, businessman and politician; siblings Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk, and cousin Lyndon Rive.
In March 1999, [15] Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company with $12 million of the money he made from the Compaq acquisition. [16] X.com was one of the first online banks that was federally insured, and over 200,000 customers joined in its initial months of operation.
In an excerpt from a new podcast, On Musk with Walter Isaacson, biographer Isaacson, the bestselling author of Elon Musk (and a former TIME editor), talks with host Evan Ratliff about criticism of ...
The biography, simply tiled “Elon Musk,” officially releases on Sept. 12 and is currently available … Elon Musk Biography Shoots to Top of Bestseller List Ahead of Release Skip to main content
Matt McFarland wrote in The Washington Post "Vance paints an unforgettable picture of Musk's unique personality, insatiable drive and ability to thrive through hardship." [2] Dwight Garner, writing in The New York Times, wrote, "Mr. Vance delivers a well-calibrated portrait of Mr. Musk, so that we comprehend both his friends and his enemies...
Walter Isaacson’s official biography of Elon Musk, which has been in the works for over two years, is facing significant revisions just as it hits stores this week.
Elon Musk is an authorized biography of American business magnate and SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk.The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN, TIME and the Aspen Institute who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.