Elon Musk is a South African-born American business magnate, engineer and investor who is currently the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He is also the founder or co-founder of several companies including PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and SolarCity. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and immigrated to Canada as a teenager before moving to the United States. He is currently the wealthiest person in Los Angeles.
Elon Musk is a South African-born American business magnate, engineer and investor who is currently the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He is also the founder or co-founder of several companies including PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and SolarCity. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and immigrated to Canada as a teenager before moving to the United States. He is currently the wealthiest person in Los Angeles.
Elon Musk is a South African-born American business magnate, engineer and investor who is currently the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He is also the founder or co-founder of several companies including PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and SolarCity. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and immigrated to Canada as a teenager before moving to the United States. He is currently the wealthiest person in Los Angeles.
Elon Musk is a South African-born American business magnate, engineer and investor who is currently the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He is also the founder or co-founder of several companies including PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and SolarCity. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and immigrated to Canada as a teenager before moving to the United States. He is currently the wealthiest person in Los Angeles.
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a
South
African-born
Canadian-American
business magnate, engineer, inventor and
investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity as well as cochairman of OpenAI. He is the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla Motors. He has also envisioned
conceptual
high-speed
transportation system known as the Hyperloop and has proposed a VTOL
supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion. He is the wealthiest person in Los Angeles. Musk was born June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, the son of Maye (ne Haldeman), a model from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; and Errol Musk, a South African-born electromechanical engineer. He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974). His paternal grandmother was British, and he also has Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in locations in South Africa. At age 10, he discovered computing with the Commodore VIC-20. He taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the code for a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for approximately US$500. A web version of the game is available online. Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood, and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs, and then beat him until he blacked out. Musk was initially educated in private education, attending the English-speaking Waterkloof House Preparatory School. Musk later graduated from Pretoria Boys High School and moved to Canada in June 1989, just before his 18th birthday, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his Canadian-born mother.