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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and U.S. special government employee, best known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his ownership of Twitter.
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]
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.
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 ...
Elon Musk, called every name from ‘carnival barker’ to ‘absent CEO,’ is on the verge of landing a $45 billion pay package from Tesla Paolo Confino June 12, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Elon Musk is the world's first $400 billion person.. It's not just his wealth that increased in 2024. Thanks to Donald Trump, Musk will enter 2025 with unprecedented power. Elon Musk is more than ...
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.
Elon Musk -- still the world's richest man, with a $243 billion net worth as of July 10, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index -- is at the helm of several companies. From Tesla to SpaceX ...