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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is also known for his 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.
Established by Elon Musk in 2023 as the successor to Twitter, Inc., it is a wholly owned subsidiary of X Holdings Corp., which is itself mostly owned by Musk. The company owns the social networking service X (formerly known as Twitter), and has announced plans to use it as a base for other offerings. While the official name of the company and ...
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.
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
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The company has grown rapidly since it was founded, growing from 160 employees in November 2005 to more than 500 by July 2008, to over 1,100 in 2010, [36] [37] 1,800 in early 2012, [38] and 3,000 by early 2013. [39] The company had grown to 3,800 employees and contractors by October 2013, [40] and had "nearly 5,000" in late 2015 [41] and ...
xAI was founded by Musk [7] [8] [9] in Nevada [4] on March 9, 2023, and has since been headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. [10] Igor Babuschkin, formerly associated with Google's DeepMind unit, was recruited by Musk to be Chief Engineer. [11] Musk officially announced the formation of xAI on July 12, 2023.
Musk's companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, have faced stiff competition in China, where Musk has sought to develop his ventures. [ 34 ] The Taiwanese government began discussing the use of Starlink in the country in 2019, but discussions later faltered after SpaceX representatives pressured government officials to change a majority ownership ...