Elon Musk, the richest person alive, was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971. This well-known businessman began his career by creating online start-ups, which he eventually sold for million-dollar sums. He founded and serves as CEO of several of the largest corporations in the world. His work in the fields of artificial intelligence, space technology, automobile design, public transportation, and many others is well-recognized and highly contentious internationally. Let’s commemorate the biggest businessman the world has ever seen on his birthday.
HISTORY OF ELON MUSK
On June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Reeve Musk was born. He was born to a South African father Errol Musk and a Canadian mother Maye Musk. Musk was 17 years old when he sought for a Canadian passport and relocated to Saskatchewan, Canada, to avoid serving in the South African military. Musk stayed in South Africa until 1989. He was an introspective child before rising to become one of the most well-known businesspeople. He was very interested in science and technology from a young age and self-taught himself how to program computers by reading manuals.
He made a video game code when he was only 12 years old and sold it for $500. Musk pursued a variety of professional paths and earned two Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in 1995—one in economics and the other in physics. He relocated to California the same year in order to pursue a business career. Before he began creating his own businesses, he had two internships in Silicon Valley.
He founded the spacecraft manufacturing and launch business SpaceX in 2002. He joined Tesla Motors, which is now Tesla, Inc., in 2004. In 2008, he was named CEO of the business. Musk established the nonprofit artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI in 2015. Additionally, he co-founded Neuralink in 2016, a business that seeks to merge artificial intelligence and the human brain.
Musk has a reputation for being extremely divisive. Musk is undoubtedly a visionary, yet his approaches are occasionally criticized for being unconventional and unscientific. The first of Musk’s four marriages was to Justine Wilson, followed by two unions with Talulah Riley and his most recent union with Canadian musician Grimes. In 2021, Musk and Grimes broke up. The businessman is the father of eight kids altogether.
5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ELON MUSK
1. He was a shy young man
Doctors initially thought he had a hearing issue as a toddler, but his mother insisted he was simply thinking “in another universe.”
2. He was harassed
Musk experienced bullying at school once, he was shoved down the stairs and ended up in the hospital.
3. He loves “Star Wars” a lot
Falcon 9 is what Musk gave SpaceX’s rocket.
4. He is autistic
Musk acknowledged having Asperger’s syndrome in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch.
5. He made an appearance
The billionaire appeared in the hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” playing himself.
