Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He was born into an upper-middle-class family.
Musk travelled to Canada in 1988 to attend Queen’s University and evade military duty in South Africa.
Musk gained Canadian citizenship that year, partly because he believed it would be easier for him to obtain American citizenship through that route.
He earned an undergraduate degree in economics before continuing on to earn a second bachelor’s degree in physics.
Musk founded Zip2 as his first venture. Zip2 was bought by Compaq Computer Corp. for $307 million in 1999.
Musk utilized the proceeds from the sale of Zip2 to establish X.com, an online financial services platform that merged with Confinity in 2000.
It was then renamed Paypal, which eBay bought for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, followed by Tesla Motors in 2003. In 2016, he established Neuralink, then in 2017, he launched The Boring Company.
He recently lost a huge amount of his net worth after Tesla’s stock dropped.
Elon Musk parents: Who are Errol Musk and Maye Musk?
Errol Graham Musk was born in 1946 in Pretoria, South Africa.
His father was from South Africa, while his mother was from the United Kingdom.
In 1970, Errol married his high school girlfriend, Maye Haldeman, a Canadian model and dietician. Elon was their first son.
He was born on June 28, 1971. According to Forbes, Errol gained money through advising and developing real estates.
Maye Musk is a South African-Canadian model and dietician. She has been modelling for 50 years and has been on the covers of magazines such as Vogue, Time magazine’s health edition and Women’s Day.
Who are his siblings?
Elon Musk’s siblings were Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk.
Kimbal Reeve Musk is a restaurant, chef, and entrepreneur from South Africa. He is the second born in the Musk family.
He is the owner of The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a chain of community eateries in Colorado, Chicago, and Indianapolis.
Tosca Musk is a filmmaker from South Africa and the last born in the family.
She has worked on feature films, television shows, and digital material as an executive producer, producer and director. Her credits include K. Bromberg’s Driven, Rachel van Dyken’s Matchmaker’s Playbook and Tiki Bar TV series.
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