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Elon Reeve Musk
June 28, 1971 |
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| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BS, BA) |
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| Partner(s) | Grimes (2018–2021) |
| Children | 7[note 1] |
| Parent(s) | Maye Musk Errol Musk |
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Musk became born to a Canadian mom and South African father, and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria earlier than moving to Canada at age 17 to keep away from conscription. He became enrolled at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania years later, where he acquired a bachelor's diploma in economics and physics. He moved to California in 1995 to wait Stanford University but determined as a substitute to pursue a business career, co-founding the net software program company Zip2 together with his brother Kimbal. The startup was received by way of Compaq for $307 million in 1999. The identical year, Musk co-founded online bank X.Com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to shape PayPal. The agency turned into offered by eBay in 2002 for $1.Five billion.
In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace producer and space transport services agency, of which he is CEO and Chief Engineer. In 2004, he joined electric car producer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product architect, turning into its CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a sun strength offerings company that turned into later acquired by using Tesla and have become Tesla Energy. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research organisation that promotes friendly artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology agency focused on growing brain–computer interfaces, and based The Boring Company, a tunnel construction organization. Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-pace vactrain transportation gadget.
Musk has been criticized for unorthodox and unscientific stances and surprisingly publicized debatable statements. In 2018, he became sued through the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had secured investment for a non-public takeover of Tesla. He settled with the SEC, quickly stepping down from his chairmanship and agreed to barriers on his Twitter usage. In 2019, he received a defamation trial brought in opposition to him by using a British caver who cautioned in the Tham Luang cave rescue. Musk has also been criticized for spreading incorrect information about the COVID-19 pandemic and for his other views on such topics as synthetic intelligence, cryptocurrency, and public delivery.
Personal lifestyles
Musk met his first spouse, Canadian author Justine Wilson, at the same time as attending Queen's University, and they married in 2000.[354] He gotten smaller malaria in 2000 whilst on vacation in South Africa, and almost died.[355] In 2002, their first toddler, son Nevada Alexander Musk, died of sudden infant demise syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks.[356] After his death, the couple determined to use IVF to continue their circle of relatives.[357] Twins Xavier and Griffin had been born in April 2004, accompanied by triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian in 2006.[357] The couple divorced in 2008 and share custody in their five sons.[354][358][359]
In 2008, Musk started out relationship English actress Talulah Riley, and in 2010, the couple married. In 2012, he announced a divorce from Riley.[360][361][362] In 2013, Musk and Riley remarried. In December 2014, he filed for a 2d divorce from Riley; however, the movement was withdrawn.[363] A second divorce changed into finalized in 2016.[364] Musk then dated Amber Heard for several months in 2017;[365][366] he had reportedly been pursuing her considering 2012.[366] Musk became later accused by means of Johnny Depp of having an affair with Heard at the same time as she become still married to Depp.[367][368][369] Musk and Heard both denied the affair.[370]
In May 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes revealed that they have been dating.[371][372][373] Grimes gave birth to their son in May 2020.[374][375] According to Musk and Grimes, his call was "X Æ A-12"; but, the name might have violated California rules as it contained characters that are not inside the cutting-edge English alphabet,[376][377] and changed into then modified to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the present day English alphabet.[378] The baby turned into subsequently named "X AE A-XII" Musk, with "X" as a primary call, "AE A-XII" as a middle call, and "Musk" as surname.[379] Musk showed reviews that the couple are "semi-separated" in September 2021; in an interview with Time in December 2021, he stated he became single.[380][381][382]
From the early 2000s until overdue 2020, Musk resided in California wherein both Tesla and SpaceX have been based and in which their headquarters are nevertheless positioned.[383] In 2020, he moved to Texas, declaring that California had turn out to be "complacent" with its financial fulfillment.[383][384]
During his hosting of Saturday Night Live in May 2021, Musk stated that he has Asperger syndrome.
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