Elon Reeves Musk, FRS (/’i:lan/EE-lon) is an investor and business magnate. He was born on June 28th in 1971. Musk is the CEO, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX and is also the CEO as well as the angel investor, the CEO and product designer of Tesla, Inc., as well as the CEO and owner of Twitter, Inc., and the co-founder of The Boring Company. He is also the co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, and is the president of the charitable Musk Foundation. As per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as well as Forbes's real-time billionaires, Musk is estimated to have a fortune of $139 billion. Musk was born in Pretoria (South Africa) and was a student at the University of Pretoria. He later relocated to Canada at 18 years old, and was granted citizenship by his mother who was born in Canada. He graduated from Queen's University two years later and later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he received bachelor's degrees in physics and economics. In 1995, he relocated to California to study at Stanford University. He dropped out after just two days. He, along with his brother Kimbal created Zip2, an online software company. Zip2. Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million in 1999. Musk also co-founded X.com (a direct bank) in 1999. X.com was merged in 2000 with Confinity to form PayPal. eBay purchased PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002.
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