Who is Elon Musk? Career, Business and Partner

Elon Musk has been named by Forbes as the richest person in 2022. The founder of the world's largest electric car company, Tesla Inc and the founder of SpaceX, has a wealth of 219 billion United States (US) or Rp. 3.175 trillion.

Apart from his wealth, do you know more details about Elon Musk? If not, here's a short profile about Elon Musk that can inspire you.

Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in South Africa. His father Errol Musk is an electromechanical engineer, while his mother, Myae Musk, works as a model.

Known as one of the richest entrepreneurs in the world, Elon Musk is also considered an innovator who succeeded in creating various contemporary inventions. In the world of technology, Elon Musk is known as the founder of several companies such as PayPal, SpaceX, to Tesla.

Smart Early on

Started learning the basics of computer programming at the age of 9, proving his intelligence from a young age. Three years later or when he was 12 years old, Musk built a space-themed PC game called Lastar.

He then sold the code for the Blastar for $500 to a computer magazine. Games that contain elements of this spaceship can still be played online today, as reported by Clean Technica.

Elon Musk is also an introverted child and a geek. At the high school level he excelled in two fields, namely physics and computer science.

In 1990, Elon Musk entered Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Two years later he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and pursued a double degree. Elon Musk graduated in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in economics and physics.

Elon Musk's Early Career

As a child who is always interested in science, computers, and things related to space. Elon aspires to pursue this field and actually makes it happen after college.

In 1995, when the internet era began to rise, Elon Musk together with his younger brother named Kimbal founded the company Zip2. In 1999, the company was sold to computer company Compaq for about $300 million.

Elon Musk then switched to establishing an online financial service called X.com. In 2000, X.com merged with rival company, Confinity and became PayPal.

PayPal, known as a digital money transfer service, was later purchased by eBay in 2002. Elon Musk, who was 31 years old at the time, was listed as the largest shareholder in PayPal. After PayPal was bought by eBay, he also owns eBay shares of 165 million dollars.

Brilliance Delivers Technological Breakthrough

Quoted from the DW website, Elon Musk has three main missions in his career. The three missions deal with the risk of climate change, the risk of dependence on one planet, and the risk of humanity's obsolescence.

On that basis he then created several findings, one of which was Tesla. Tesla Motors is a company engaged in the automotive sector, specifically producing environmentally friendly electric cars.

Not only Tesla, Elon Musk also leads the SolarCity company which is engaged in solar power technology. All of them are the embodiment of Elon Musk's ambition to reduce the risk of climate change.

In 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX which is a special space transportation company and works closely with NASA. This is motivated by the thought that humanity might be threatened with extinction if it only depends on one planet.

Elon Musk not only sits as CEO and takes care of the company's corporate matters, but he is also directly involved in various SpaceX projects. With physics and various abilities, Elon Musk helped design and build rockets as well as spacecraft.

Not only that, Elon Musk owns a number of other large companies including The Boring Company. A company that focuses on making underground tunnels that can be used for pedestrians, goods, utilities, or autonomous electric vehicles to avoid congestion.

The company that was born out of frustration that befell him to see the condition of the transportation network in Los Angeles.

There is also Neuralink Corporation, a company that manufactures chips to be implanted into the brain and as an artificial intelligence research laboratory called OpenAI.

Inspiration for Iron Man

The superhero characters Tony Stark and Iron Man are inspired by Elon Musk. There were even rumors that the actor who played him, Robert Downey Jr., wanted to meet Mask and sit down with him for character inspiration. Some footage for Iron Man 2 was also shot at SpaceX, with Musk making a cameo in the film.

Musk, who is still attached to the film world, turns out to be the owner of Wet Nellie. The Wet Nellie is a Lotus sports car and submarine that appeared in the 1970s James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Musk even reportedly plans to make it into a real car that can transform into a submarine.

Elon Musk's Personal Life

Elon Musk is the father of a large family. He has seven children. Her last child was born in early May 2020, a son to her boyfriend, Canadian musician Grimes.

Musk's seven children are Nevada Alexander, twin boys Griffin and Xavier, triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, and the youngest was born X A-12.

Elon Musk's spouse changed several times, His first wife was Justine Musk, who is now better known as Justine Wilson, The two got married in 2000. After that, Musk fell in love with actress Talulah Riley. Elon Musk then moved on to Amber Heard, They were reportedly dating in late 2016. In 2018 Elon Musk was reported to be dating Grimes and have a son named X A-XII. most recently, the Tesla founder is reportedly in a relationship with Shivon Zilis who is the project director at the Neuralink company.

Elon Musk is a hard worker, but he is also known to be impatient, often firing employees he deems to be incompetent. Elon Musk often makes controversial tweets that eventually lead to an apology. Elon Musk on Twitter is very active, even because he likes Twitter so much Elon Musk plans to buy Twitter.

One of them was when he tweeted and commented about rescuing victims in a cave in Thailand. The rescue was carried out by British commercial diver Vernon Unsworth. At that time, Elon Musk accused Vernon Unsworth of being a pedophile.

After Vernon filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, the case was taken to court. Another controversy that also made Elon Musk into the public spotlight was when he tripped over a marijuana case.

In 2020, Elon Musk was again in the limelight with his decision to reopen the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, California.

This caused controversy because Elon Musk allegedly violated local government regulations. At that time, the Tesla Motors factory was not considered an essential factory/business to operate during the Covid-19 pandemic. The factory was closed for two months during the lockdown.

Reference:

DW

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