Elon Reeves Musk, FRS (/’i:lan/EE-lon) is an investor and business magnate. He was born on June 28 in 1971. He is the CEO, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; the founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and the president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. Musk has an estimated net worth of $139 billion mostly because of his ownership stakes at Tesla and SpaceX. He is also the CEO, founder and chief engineer at SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc. as well as the CEO and owner of Twitter, Inc. as well as the The Boring Company's founder co-founder of Neuralink as well as OpenAI and president of the charitable Musk Foundation. He graduated from Queen's University two years later and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics. He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University. After two days of being there, he dropped out of the university and, along together with his brother Kimbal, co-founded the online city guide software firm Zip2. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307 million. Musk co-founded X.com which was a direct bank. X.com merged in 2000 with Confinity to form PayPal. eBay purchased PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002.
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