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Elon Musk’s love of video games is well-documented. The night he decided to buy Twitter, the social media platform now known as X, he played video games until 5:30 a.m., his biographer Walter ...
Elon Musk had just finished playing a video game with Grimes when he made his offer to buy Twitter in April 2022. He and the musician, with whom he has three children, had stayed up until 5 a.m ...
Fineman said she named Musk because he was "rude" about the postelection "SNL" episode. Chloe Fineman, a comedian on "Saturday Night Live," said Elon Musk made her cry when he hosted the show in 2021.
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. His other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
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.
A month later, Musk invested about $12 million into co-founding X.com in March 1999 with Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho. [5] [6] Fricker worked with Musk when Musk was an intern at the Bank of Nova Scotia, Payne was a friend of Fricker, and Ho was an engineer at Silicon Graphics and executive at Zip2. [7]
Killing the demons in a video game calms the demons in my mind,” Musk told podcaster Lex Fridman in an episode released Friday. He added later, “I’ve played a lot of video games because it's ...
Elon Musk made $175.8 million when PayPal was sold to eBay in October 2002. [5] He was first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion. [6] At the start of 2020, Elon Musk had a net worth of $27 billion. [7]