5 Top Shocking Facts about Elon Musk

5 Top Shocking Facts about Elon Musk

 

Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company;co-founder and co-chairman of OpenAI;and co-founder of PayPal.

He was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful people. In October 2018, it was being estimated he has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 54th-richest person in the world.

Q: How did Musk make his money?

In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. ... In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.

Q: What is Musk's education background?

At the age of 17, in 1989, Elon Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen's University, avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. He left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor's degree in physics. After leaving Penn, Elon Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a PhD in energy physics. However, his move coincided with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his first company, Zip2 Corporation.

Q:What is Elon Musk famous for?

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers. 

Q: What is Elon Musk net worth?

Elon Musk has a net worth over $19.2 billion, making the Tesla CEO one of the richest men on the planet

Q: How much money does Elon Musk make in a day?

Musk is worth a reported $22 billion, but the official salary he currently receives from Tesla is far more modest: The CEO earns just around $37,000 per year. (Musk is also the CEO of SpaceX, which is privately held.)