Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He had 7 children Justine Musk who died at 10 weeks, Xavier and Griffin (twins), Damian, Saxon and Kai (triplets), X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.
He is currently the CEO of SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) and Tesla, owner of Twitter and president of the Musk Foundation which does research on renewable energy, human space exploration and pediatrics.
Now that we have introduced the history of Elon Musk, we will review some curiosities about him and his career.
He is one of the richest people in the world. He is not the founder of Tesla, he initially joined the company as president in 2000. He is currently the fourth CEO that the company had and took over in 2008. Elon has bought the Lotus Espirit that was used in the movie 007 - The Spy who loved me (1977).
He has two children with singer Grimes named: X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. He loves the X-Men comics, in fact his first company was named x.com as a tribute to the saga. This company merged with Confinity in 2001 and gave rise to Paypal. In 2002 Paypal was sold to Ebay for US$1.5 billion.
One of Elon Musk's sons is named Xavier after the X-Men teacher. Elon made an appearance in the Marvel movie Iron Man 2, in which he plays himself.
In addition to having been part of the film, Jon Favreau (director) stated that he was inspired by Elon Musk to make the film version of Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies.
Since he was a child, Elon Musk already had a great entrepreneurial spirit. At the age of 12, he sold a code for a video game called Blastar to a magazine for $500.00. He started programming when he was only 9 years old.
Elon Musk has three nationalities: South African, American, and Canadian. In 2021 he said in an interview on Saturday Night Live that he has Asperger syndrome.
At the beginning of his career, he lived in the office of his company Zip2, which managed the development, hosting and maintenance of web pages. He continued with the Zip2 project even though it generated losses and in 1999 he managed to sell the company for 307 million dollars. By 2022 he was considered the richest man in the world with an estimated fortune of more than 219,000 million euros.
The Dragon, an unmanned spacecraft designed by SpaceX, was the first commercial spacecraft from a private company to orbit the Earth and return. Its mission was to deliver food, clothing, supplies, and computing devices to the International Space Station (ISS).
Starlink was originally a SpaceX project that ended up becoming a separate company. Starlink intends around 2025 to offer broadband internet service, low latency and global coverage at low cost that will be made available for scientific, military and exploration purposes.
In 2015, together with Sam Altman, he co-founded the company OpenAI, a non-profit foundation. This company developed software called Universe that measures and trains artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk has created a school called Ad Astra, in which 5 of his children study. This college teaches robotics, ethics and artificial intelligence. He is also interested in music and whenever he can he likes to be a DJ.
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