In December 2016, he was
ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. As of February 2018, he has a net worth of $20.8 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 53rd-richest person in the world .
Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He
moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. inapplied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently co-founded Zip2 , a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com , an online payment company. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and became PayPal, which was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.
In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services
company, of which he is CEO and lead designer.
He co-founded Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle
and solar panel manufacturer, in 2003, and operates as its CEO and product architect.
In September 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket became the first privately funded liquid-fueled
vehicle to put a satellite into Earth orbit. In 2006, SpaceX was awarded a contract from NASA to
continue the development vehicle and Dragon spacecraft in order to transport cargo to the
International Space Station.
Musk is chairman of the Musk Foundation, which focuses its philanthropic efforts on providing
solar-power energy systems in disaster areas.In 2018, He donated a mini-submarine that had been designed to carry trapped Thai children football team to safety.
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. Their first son, Nevada Alexander Musk, died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks. They later had five sons through in vitro fertilization – twins in 2004, followed by triplets in 2006. They share custody of all five sons.
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,
tweeting to Riley, "It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone
very happy one day." In July 2013, Musk and Riley remarried. In December 2014, Musk filed for a
second divorce from Riley; however, the action was withdrawn.
The media announced in March
2016 that divorce proceedings were again under way, this time with Riley filing for divorce from
Musk. The divorce was finalized in late 2016.
Musk began dating American actress Amber Heard in 2016 but the two split up after one year
due to their conflicting schedules. On May 7, 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes
revealed that they had begun dating.
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