Fact 1
The future genius was born in the city of Pretoria in the Republic of South Africa. His parents worked as an engineer and model. Elon was their first child, the family has 3 children. Now, Elon Musk is 51 years old.
Fact 2
Elon grew up a closed child, he was bullied at school. Once the children broke his nose.
Fact 3
Elon has a photographic memory, the encyclopedias he read made him a real know-it-all. At the age of 10, the boy was presented with the first computer, on which he learned programming. At the age of 12, Elon created and sold his first video game, Blastar.
Fact 4
Musk’s parents divorced, Elon and his brother decided to live with their father. The boys often went with their father to work, where they learned how to lay electrical wiring and install plumbing.
Fact 5
Elon moved to relatives in Canada, where he studied at the university for 2 years, and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. In the US, he began to study physics and business.
Fact 6
In 1996-1997, Elon and his brother founded the Zip2 Corporation software company, which they sold 2 years later for $22 million.
Fact 7
In 1999, Elon worked with PayPal, he owned a 12% stake in the company, which he sold to eBay in 2022 for $180 million.
Fact 8
After selling PayPal, Musk founded the space rocket company SpaceX. 7 years after founding, NASA signed a billion dollar contract with SpaceX.
Fact 9
According to Musk, humanity has a risk of self-destruction – the planet is under threat due to global warming, viruses and asteroids. That is why he considers it necessary to go beyond the Earth.
Fact 10
Musk hopes to make the first flight to Mars by 2025 and send about a million people to Mars by 2050.
Fact 11
Many mistakenly believe that Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla. The company was actually founded by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. Musk is the co-founder of Tesla.
Fact 12
Musk has many awards. For example, Esquire magazine named him one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. In 2011, Forbes named him one of the 20 most influential CEOs under 40. In 2013, Fortune magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Year.
Fact 13
Officially, Elon Musk earns only $1 a year at Tesla.
Fact 14
Elon Musk has been divorced three times. He currently has nine children.
Fact 15
In 2016, Elon dated actress Amber Heard. Amber’s ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, said that Heard cheated on him with Musk a month after the wedding.
Fact 16
The director of the film “Iron Man” said that it was Elon Musk who inspired him to portray Tony Stark.
Fact 17
Musk is the inspiration behind Tesla and the company’s first major investor. The Tesla Model S is recognized as the most bladeless car in the world.
Fact 18
Several Tesla board members are concerned about Elon Musk’s sleep problems. It was recently revealed that he was taking strong sleeping pills.
Fact 19
Elon Musk advised Donald Trump on economic growth and job creation.
Fact 20
Musk is a generous philanthropist. For example, in 2015, he donated $10 million to AI research, and in 2019, after the wildfires, the Musk Foundation donated a million dollars to plant new trees.
Fact 21
Musk has three citizenships – South African, Canadian and American.
Fact 22
2008 was a very difficult year for Musk. Tesla was losing money, SpaceX rocket launches were extremely unsuccessful. The businessman was close to ruin. “It was the worst year of my life,” admitted Elon.
Fact 23
Musk’s ex-wife told reporters that: “Elon is not afraid to take risks. If necessary, he is ready to sacrifice himself”. We are talking about the plans of a businessman to colonize Mars.
Fact 24
Due to lack of time, Musk often sleeps right in his office.
Fact 25
Elon hasn’t had a normal vacation for over 20 years.
Fact 26
In addition to Tesla and SpaceX, Musk also has companies such as SolarCity, which deals with solar panels, OpenAI, which deals with artificial intelligence, and Neuralink, a startup in the field of neurotechnology.
Fact 27
SpaceX has successfully launched Starlink, a global satellite system that brings internet to hard-to-reach places.
Fact 28
In 2022, Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion. According to him, he wanted to return freedom of speech in social networks.
Fact 29
The billionaire began managing Twitter with massive layoffs of company employees. Musk unblocked the accounts of Donald Trump, Kanye West, and Jordan Peterson, who had been permanently banned for violating the rules, and began blocking the accounts of journalists and people who disagreed with his policies.
After that, Twitter Inc. shares fell.
Fact 30
Elon Musk is worth an estimated $178 billion, according to Forbes, making him the second-richest person on the planet.
