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Elon Musk is a South African-born businessman and 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, [418] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [419] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX.
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.
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.
Musk repeating the salute before saying, "My heart goes out to you." [1]On January 20, 2025, while speaking at a rally celebrating U.S. president Donald Trump's second inauguration, businessman and political figure Elon Musk twice made a salute interpreted by some as a Nazi or Roman salute.
The business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022, becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake.
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 in 2022. 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, [1] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [2] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX.
Elon Musk (born 1971) is a South African-born businessman. Elon Musk may also refer to: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, a 2015 biography of Musk by Ashlee Vance; Elon Musk (Isaacson book), a 2023 biography of Musk by Walter Isaacson "Elon Musk", a 2023 song by Nigerian rapper Shallipopi