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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n / EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and Twitter (which he rebranded as X).Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
SpaceX, NASA, and the United States Armed Forces work closely together by means of governmental contracts. [9] SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of space launches, paving the way to a sustainable colony on Mars. In 2008, Falcon 1 successfully launched into orbit after three failed launch attempts.
[160] [161] In a video call with banks who helped Musk fund the acquisition, Musk assured them he would complete the buyout by the deadline. [162] Musk made a trip to Twitter's headquarters on October 26, tweeting a video of him jokingly carrying a kitchen sink at the site's lobby and changing his Twitter bio to "Chief Twit".
Biographer Walter Isaacson calls Musk's addiction a "super power" but sees a downside, too.
(Reuters) - Elon Musk withdrew a loan of $1 billion from SpaceX - the two-decade-old rocket company run by the billionaire - around the same time he was acquiring Twitter, now known as X, for $44 ...
Leads six ventures: Tesla, SpaceX, X Corp. (formerly Twitter), xAI, Neuralink and The Boring Company. Born in Pretoria, South Africa , and bought his first computer at age 10.
Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992 [2]) is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry.
A top SpaceX exec, Juncosa, along with Shotwell, is said to oversee the facility and operations of SpaceX’s Starbase location. Bret Johnsen CFO and president of strategic acquisitions group