Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX[1]; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.[2]; co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; and co-founder of PayPal. Entrepreneur *magnate.*
Early Life
[edit]Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa[3], the son of Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974).[4]
Career
[edit]First start-up
[edit]He taught himself computer programming at the age of 10, and by the age of 12 sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar, to a magazine called PC and Office Technology, for approximately $500.[5]
Zip2
[edit]In 1995, Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a web software company. The company developed and marketed an Internet "city guide" for the newspaper publishing industry.Compaq acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash.[6]
Paypal
[edit]In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. One year later, the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal.In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.[7]
Space X
[edit]With US$100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, in May 2002. Musk is chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technology officer (CTO) of the Hawthorne, California-based company.[8]
Tesla
[edit]Following the financial crisis in 2008 and after a series of escalating conflicts in 2007. Musk assumed leadership of the company as CEO and product architect, positions he still holds today. [9]
Personal Life
[edit]Musk met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, while both were students at Ontario's Queen's University. They married in 2000 and separated in 2008.[10]
In 2008, Musk began dating English actress Talulah Riley, and in 2010, the couple married. In January 2012, Musk announced that he had ended his four-year relationship with Riley.[11]. Musk and Riley remarried in December 2014 but they divorced in 2016.[12]
Musk began dating American actress Amber Heard in 2016 but the two split up after one year due to their conflicting schedules.[13]
On May 7, 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes revealed that they had begun dating.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Shanklin, Emily (2017-03-27). "Elon Musk". SpaceX. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Elon Musk | Tesla". www.tesla.com. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Elon Musk | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ Elliott, Hannah. "At Home With Elon Musk: The (Soon-to-Be) Bachelor Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Play the PC game Elon Musk wrote as a pre-teen". The Verge. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ Strauss, Neil (2017-11-15). "Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ Staff (2014-02-14). "37 Interesting Facts about Elon Musk, One of the Most Innovative Entrepreneurs of Our Time". BOOMSbeat. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Business Search - Business Entities - Business Programs | California Secretary of State". businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "A brief history of Tesla". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "A Look at Elon Musk's Rocky Romantic History". Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ Elliott, Hannah. "At Home With Elon Musk: The (Soon-to-Be) Bachelor Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Elon Musk and Talulah Riley Are Divorced for a Second Time". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Tesla CEO Elon Musk breaks up with Amber Heard, report says". The Mercury News. 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Grimes is dating Elon Musk". Consequence of Sound. 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2018-11-03.