ELON MUSK (Founder, CEO of SpaceX, Angel Investor, Tesla, Twitter, Founder of The Boring Company, Co-Founder of Neuralink and OpenAI)

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ELON MUSK

(Founder, CEO of SpaceX, Angel Investor, Tesla, Twitter, Founder of The Boring Company, Co-Founder of Neuralink and OpenAI)


Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and briefly attended the University of Pretoria before

moving to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Two years

Later, he matriculated at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where

He received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. He moved to California in 1995 to attend

Stanford University.   After two days, he dropped out and, with his brother Kimball, co-founded the

online city guide software company Zip2. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307 million and

Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank.

He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX;
an angel investor; CEO; and product architect.

of Tesla, owner and CEO of Twitter, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neural Ink, and

Open AI, and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. With an estimated net worth of

around $196 billion as of February 15, 2023, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is the second-wealthiest person in the world.

In 1995, Musk, his brother Kimball, and Greg Koori founded Zip2. Errol Musk provided them with

$28,000 in funding. The company developed an Internet city guide with maps, directions, and yellow

pages, and marketed it to newspapers. They worked at a small rented office in Palo Alto, and Musk

coding the website every night.  Eventually, Zip2 obtained contracts with The New York Times and

the Chicago Tribune. The brothers persuaded the board of directors to abandon a merger with

CitySearch [54]; however, Musk's attempts to become CEO were thwarted.   Compaq acquired Zip2 for

$307 million in cash in February 1999, and Musk received $22 million for his 7-percent share


ASHWINI SINGH
S.Y.BSc.(IT)

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