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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate who founded or co-founded several companies including SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of over $200 billion. Musk studied business and physics in college and started his first company Zip2 which was later acquired by Compaq for $307 million. He re-invested the proceeds into X.com which merged with PayPal, and in 2002 founded SpaceX.

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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate who founded or co-founded several companies including SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of over $200 billion. Musk studied business and physics in college and started his first company Zip2 which was later acquired by Compaq for $307 million. He re-invested the proceeds into X.com which merged with PayPal, and in 2002 founded SpaceX.

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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate who founded or co-founded several companies including SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of over $200 billion. Musk studied business and physics in college and started his first company Zip2 which was later acquired by Compaq for $307 million. He re-invested the proceeds into X.com which merged with PayPal, and in 2002 founded SpaceX.

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    Elon Reeve Musk 

    FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is an entrepreneur and business magnate.


    He is the founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early stage investor, CEO and Product Architect
    of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.
    A centibillionaire, Musk is the richest person in the world, as of September 2021.[2]

    Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father and raised in Pretoria, South Africa.
    He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada aged 17 to attend Queen's
    University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received
    bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. 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 brother Kimbal. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.
    The same year, Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to
    form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

    In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company,
    of which he is CEO and CTO. In 2004, he joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now
    Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product architect, becoming its CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped
    create SolarCity, a solar energy services company that was later acquired by Tesla and became Tesla
    Energy. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that promotes friendly
    artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on
    developing brain–computer interfaces, and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel
    construction company. Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain transportation
    system.

    Musk has been the subject of criticism due to unorthodox or unscientific stances and highly
    publicized controversies. In 2018, he was sued for defamation by a British caver who advised in
    the Tham Luang cave rescue; a California jury ruled in favor of Musk. In the same year, 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. He settled with the SEC, temporarily stepping down from his
    chairmanship and accepting limitations on his Twitter usage. Musk has spread misinformation about
    the COVID-19 pandemic and has received criticism from experts for his other views on such matters
    as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and public transport.

    Education

    Aware it would be easier to enter the United States from Canada,[22] Musk applied for a Canadian
    passport through his Canadian-born mother.[23][24] While awaiting the documentation, he attended
    the University of Pretoria for five months; this allowed Musk to avoid mandatory service in the South
    African military.[25] Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989, and lived with a second-cousin
    in Saskatchewan for a year,[26] working odd jobs at a farm and lumber-mill.[27] In 1990, Musk
    entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.[28][29] Two years later, he transferred to
    the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics
    and a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.[30][31][32]

    In 1994, Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley during the summer: at energy storage startup
    Pinnacle Research Institute, which researched electrolytic ultracapacitors for energy storage, and at
    the Palo Alto-based startup Rocket Science Games.[33] In 1995, Musk was accepted to a Doctor of
    Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in materials science at Stanford University in California.[34] Musk
    attempted to get a job at Netscape but never received a response to his inquiries.[23] He dropped out
    of Stanford after two days, deciding instead to join the Internet boom and launch an Internet
    startup.[35]

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