Known For: South African-born businessman (born 1971)
Category: Entrepreneurs
Occupation: programmer, engineer, entrepreneur, investor, businessperson
Country: South Africa
City: Pretoria
Date of Birth: Monday, 28 June 1971
Language English
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X, and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI. He is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world; as of August 2024 Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$241 billion.
| BirthPlace | Pretoria |
| Education | Q105424537, Q1329269, Q49117, Q7242167, Q7974160, Q1420038, Q41506, Q48817614, Q604444 |
| Awards | Q209896, Q11415564, Q15631401, Q17398148, Q207826, Q604370, Q5449677, Q6234290, Q604370, Q6543932, Q121359767, Q31838295, Q30144811, Q21804548, Q12410738, Q23581190, Q10341331, Q84606034, Q63072513 |
| Spouses | Justine Musk, Talulah Riley, Talulah Riley |
| Children | Nevada Musk, Vivian Jenna Wilson, Griffin Musk, Damian Musk, Saxon Musk, Kai Musk, X Æ A-Ⅻ Musk, Strider Musk, Azure Musk, Exa Musk, Tau Musk |
| Relatives | Lyndon Rive, Jana Bezuidenhout |
| Wikipedia | Elon_Musk |
| X (Twitter) | elonmusk |
Elon Musk has started a number of businesses since 1995, with initial business success and liquidity gained from sales of equity in one business providing the capital for him to start subsequent business enterprises. Musk is widely considered a serial entrepreneur. By the 2020s, several Musk businesses had formed strategic partnerships with some employees playing roles simultaneously in more than one of Musk's companies.
