He is one of the brilliant minds and an inspiration to many, who helped reshape the global economy following the tech boom of the late 1990s.
He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX and an early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. He is also the founder of The Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink & OpenAI.
His current net worth is around $156.9 billion making him one of the richest people in the world.
Here are 10 awesome facts about this tech star:
1. Musk was born in South Africa and only moved to Canada at the age of 17. He now holds citizenship if South Africa, Canada and United States of America.
2. Musk created a video game called "Blaster" at age 12 and sold it for $500.
3. He dropped out of Stanford in two days and became the founder of Zip2 Corporation.
4. Till date he has founded eight companies - Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
5. His annual salary from Tesla is just $1. Most of his wealth comes from his share in stocks.
6. He has made appearances in sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory, Simpsons and South Park. He also appeared in Marvel's Iron Man 2.
7. He is the real life 'Tony Stark' as Robert Downey Jr based his portrayal of Tony Stark on Musk.
8. Musk is an X-Men fan as he has named some of his robots at Tesla facility after these superhero characters.
9. In 2013, he almost sold Tesla to Google as it was running in loss. He even approached Apple to takeover Tesla but was refused.
10. He is father of six children and all of them are boys as his wife birthed twins and then triplets. In 2018, he named one of his son as X A-12 Musk (pronounced x-ash-a-12) and it became quite the talk on social media.
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