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Elon Musk is the world's richest
person that Born to a Canadian mother and a father from South Africa, Musk was
raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He was born on June 28, 1971. He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), who
was an early business partner, and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974), the CEO
of the Passionflix video streaming platform. His maternal grandfather was an
American-born Canadian, Joshua Haldeman. His paternal grandmother had Dutch
ancestry, both in Britain and Pennsylvania.
Musk lived mainly with his father in the suburbs
of Pretoria after his parents separated in 1980, a decision he made two years
after the divorce and eventually regretted. Musk was unloved from his father,
whom he described as "a terrible human being." Almost every evil
thing you could think of was done by him. He even has a half-sister and a
half-brother on his father's side.
Until
graduating from Pretoria Boys High School, he attended Waterkloof House
Preparatory School and Bryanston High SchoolElon.Musk, who arrived in Canada in
June 1989, struggled in Montreal to find his great-uncle and instead lived in a
youth hostel. He then moved west to live in Saskatchewan with a second cousin.
He lived there for a year, working strange jobs at a farm and a lumber mill.
Musk joined Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1990 when he was 17.
Two years later, he transferred to
the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a dual bachelor's degree in
economics and physics. In 1995, he moved to California to begin his Ph.D. Stanford University
in applied physics and materials, but dropped out after two days to pursue a
career in industry. Compaq acquired Zip2, a campaign for online applications,
in 1999.
Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an engineer,
industrial designer, and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, CTO, and
chief designer of SpaceX; TESLA, Inc.'s early investor, CEO, and product
architect; founder of the boring business; co-founder of Neuralink; and
co-founder and initial co-chairman of openAl.
X.com, an online bank, was founded by
Musk. In 2000, it merged with trust, released Paypal the previous year, and
subsequently bought eBay in October 2002 for $1.5 billion. He helped founded
SolarCity, a solar energy services company, in 2006. (now a subsidiary in
Tesla).
Elon Musk is the world’s richest person who disclosed a design
for a high-speed transportation system on August 12, 2013, that integrates
reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules travel on an air cushion
powered by linear induction motors and air compressors. In a white paper
published on the Tesla and SpaceX blogs, the alpha design for the system was
published.
He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, a nonprofit research
firm aimed at fostering friendly artificial intelligence. He co-founded
Neuralink, a neurotechnology business focused on creating brain-computer
interfaces, in July 2016. The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel
building firm focusing on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles, was founded
by Musk in December 2016. He envisioned an open-source high-speed transport
system known as the Hyperloop built on the idea of a vactrain, in addition to
his primary business pursuits.
The paper scoped out
the technology and proposed a notional route where such a transport system
could be built at an approximate total cost of $6 billion Between the Los
Angeles Greater Area and the Bay Area of San Francisco.
In 2018, he was elected a Royal
Society(FRS) fellow. He was ranked 25th on the Forbes list of the world's most
influential people that year as well and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes
list of 2019's most visionary leaders. For a week, in January 2021, Musk became
the richest person in the world, a centi-billionaire.
He co-founded openAl in 2015, a
non-profit research company aimed at fostering friendly artificial
intelligence.
The net worth of Musk:
US$
209billion(January 2021)
Because of
unorthodox views and widely publicized scandals, he also has been the subject
of criticism. Following the rejection of a tesla prototype submarine that musk
had proposed to be used in the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, he insulted the
driver who recommended and rejected the prototype in the rescue and sued the
driver for defamation in response; the California jury ruled in favor of musk.
He also falsely tweeted in 2018 that, at $420 a
share, he had secured financing for a private takeover of Tesla. He was sued by
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the allegation. He
settled with the SEC, stepping down temporarily from his presidency and
acknowledging restrictions on his use of Twitter. For his views on artificial
intelligence, public transit, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Musk has received
considerable criticism.
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