His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys in a single-engine Bellanca airplane to Africa and Australia and Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Musk has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974). His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who was once a half owner of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika. His mother is Maye Musk ( née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but raised in South Africa. 5.3 Artificial intelligence, metaverse, and public transitĮlon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.3.3 Tham Luang cave rescue and defamation case.2.8 Managerial style and treatment of employees.Musk has also been criticized for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and for his other views on such matters as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and public transport.
In 2019, he won a defamation trial brought against him by a British caver who advised in the Tham Luang cave rescue. He settled with the SEC, temporarily stepping down from his chairmanship and agreeing to limitations on his Twitter usage. In 2018, he was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. Musk has been criticized for unorthodox and unscientific stances and highly publicized controversial statements. Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain transportation system. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces, and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that promotes friendly artificial intelligence. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company that was later acquired by Tesla and became Tesla Energy. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product architect, becoming its CEO in 2008. In 2004, he joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and Chief Engineer. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. The same year, Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.
He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but decided instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. He was enrolled at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics and physics. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 17 to avoid conscription. Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father, and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. With an estimated net worth of around US$270 billion as of March 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list. founder of The Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.
Elon Reeve Musk FRS ( / ˈ iː l ɒ n/ born June 28, 1971) is an entrepreneur and business magnate.