The company Tesla, which manufactures electric cars, has made its CEO Elon Musk the richest person in the world. Elon Musk has surpassed Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos in the list of billionaires. Elon Musk’s net worth has exceeded 280 billion USD, which is much more than Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos. This happened because Tesla’s share price continues to rise steadily.
Recently, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for 44 billion dollars and became the new owner of Twitter. Elon Musk has also mentioned adding an edit button to tweets. Along with this, after acquiring Coca-Cola, he mentioned it in his tweet. Let’s find out who Elon Musk is.
Introduction of Elon Musk
| Name | Elon Musk |
| birthday | 28 June 1971 |
| birth place | Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa |
| Age | 50 years |
| Mother | Maye Musk ( Maye Musk ) |
| Father | Errol Musk |
| Wife | Tallulah Riley |
| Education | BS and BA Degree |
| College | Queen’s University – University Of Pennsylvania |
| Citizenship | South Africa [1971 present] Canada [1989 present] United States [2002 present] |
| Marriage | Married |
| Property | 280 billion US dollars |
| home town | Bel Airs, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Children | 7 |
| company name | 1. Tesla Motors 2. Space X 3. Neuralink |
| Business | Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Engineers |
| Net Worth | 280 Billion Dolor |
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in the city of Pretoria, South Africa. His father’s name was Errol Musk, who was an engineer and a pilot. His mother’s name was Maye Musk, who was a model and a dietitian.
Since childhood, Elon Musk has been interested in reading and has always been seen around books. At the age of just 10, he became interested in computers, and at the age of 12, he learned programming and even created a game called Blastar. He sold it to a company named PC & OFFICE TECHNOLOGY for 500 dollars, which was the first glimpse of Elon Musk’s talent.
Elon Musk used to read books by ISAAC ASIMOV during his childhood, which perhaps sparked his interest in technology. Elon faced many difficulties during his school days; he was often troubled in school. Once a group of boys pushed Elon down the stairs, and he was beaten until he lost consciousness. He had to be hospitalized for several days. However, despite facing many challenges in childhood, Elon Musk has done commendable work for humanity.
At the age of 17, Elon Musk started his graduation at Queen University, and after studying there for 2 years, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1992, and then shifted to California to pursue his Ph.D. But within just 2 days of starting research there, he dropped out of studies and took steps to become a successful entrepreneur.
In 1995, Elon Musk started a software company called ZIP2 with his brother, which was later acquired by COMPAQ for 307 million dollars. After the sale, Elon Musk received a total of 22 million dollars from his 7% share in ZIP2, and then in 1999, investing 10 million dollars from this money, Elon Musk founded X.COM, which was a financial services company. A year later, this company merged with Confinity, which operated a money transfer service, which we now know as PayPal. Since then, PayPal has remained a popular medium for money transfer.
In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for an incredible amount of 1.2 billion dollars, and after the deal, Elon Musk received 165 million dollars. Elon Musk was the largest shareholder of PayPal. Then, in 2002, with a large sum of money deposited, Elon Musk founded a company called SpaceX, which today works on making Space Launching Vehicles. Elon mentioned in an interview that he is fully prepared to settle humans on Mars by 2030.
In 2003, Elon Musk co-founded another company called TESLA with two other people and has been working as the CEO of TESLA since 2008. And friends, you may already know that Tesla’s specialty lies in its amazing electric cars. Then in 2006, Elon Musk played an important role in restarting his company SolarCity by providing financial capital.
Then in 2013, SolarCity became the second largest company in the United States to provide Solar Power Systems. And then in 2016, TESLA acquired SolarCity. And now SolarCity works entirely under Tesla.
In December 2015, Elon Musk started an Artificial Intelligence research company called OpenAI, which aims to make Artificial Intelligence beneficial and safe for humanity. In 2016, Elon Musk became a co-founder of NERALINK, a company dedicated to connecting Artificial Intelligence with the human brain.
Who is the new owner of Twitter?
Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla Motors, has become the new owner of Twitter. Musk has bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. Musk’s stake in Twitter was initially 9%. But on April 26, 2022, he has become its owner.
How did Elon Musk become the richest person in the world?
Elon Musk is involved in many extraordinary works, and it is due to this extraordinary thinking that he is one of the most unique personalities in the world. And in 2021, he became the richest person in the world. Elon Musk’s net worth has exceeded 280 billion US dollars, which is increasing steadily.