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Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. [4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
Musk's friends expressed skepticism about the naming of the online bank, fearing it might have been mistaken for a pornographic site. Musk brushed off their concerns, emphasizing that the name was meant to be straightforward, memorable, and easy to type. Additionally, he was fond of the email addresses derived from it, such as "e@x.com". [15]
Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Elon Musk. How did Elon Musk start making money? Elon Musk began building his fortune by starting the company Zip2.
Students walk between classes at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Elon Musk graduated from the university with bachelor's degrees in physics and economics in 1997.
In addition to heading up Tesla, Musk owns the private companies SpaceX, brain chip startup Neuralink, tunnel drilling business the Boring Company, and X, which he renamed from Twitter after a ...
Bret Steven Taylor (born 1980) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He is most notable for leading the team that co-created Google Maps and his tenures as the CTO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms), as the chairman of Twitter, Inc.'s board of directors prior to its acquisition by Elon Musk, and as the co-CEO of Salesforce (alongside co-founder Marc Benioff).
The startup reflected Musk's long-voiced concerns about a future in which AI systems could present an existential risk to humanity. The idea, Musk told Carlson, is that an AI that wants to ...
SpaceX's first rocket was named Falcon 1 by Musk, taking inspiration from the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, and also because the rocket would have only one booster engine. [ citation needed ] [ further explanation needed ] Falcon 1 was designed with a core tenet of low launch cost; according to contemporary sources the rocket has an ...