Elon Musk is a Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer and inventor born in South Africa.
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Musk has been part of many successful startups; is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; CEO of Tesla Inc.; co-chair of OpenAI; founder and CEO of Neuralink.
Most people will know that Elon's initial success came from the creation of PayPal, now one of the most widely used payment gateways on the internet.
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa on June 28, 1971.
Early Life
His mother is a model from Canada and his father is an engineer from South Africa. Musk has two younger siblings, Kimbal and Tosca.
At just 10 years old, Elon found his passion for computers. At the age of 12, he learned to program on a computer
and created a video game called Blastar, which he sold to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for about $500.
After dropping out of Stanford University to pursue entrepreneurship, Elon co-founded Zip2 with his brother Kimbal.
Career
Zip2 is a web-based software company that develops and markets an Internet "city guide" for the newspaper publishing industry.
The company won contracts with the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times and was eventually sold to Compaq for $307 million.
As of September 2022, Elon Musk’s net worth is estimated at $204 Billion.