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Born | Elon Reeve Musk June 28, 1971 |
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Years active | 1995–present |
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Political party | Independent |
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Partner | Grimes (2018–2021) |
Children | 11 (1 deceased) |
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Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (2018) |
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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American businessman. He moved to Canada and later became a U.S. citizen.
He became rich through several technology projects, including an online finance company which merged with PayPal in the year 2000.[2]
Musk is the current CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., a company that makes electric vehicles. He is also the CEO of Solar City, a company that makes solar panels, and the CEO & CTO of SpaceX, an aerospace company.
In 2022, he became the owner of the social media site Twitter after buying it for USD $44 billion.[3]
Musk is the second-wealthiest person in the world, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's real-time billionaires list.[4][5] In 2021, he was Time Person of the Year.