Elon Musk is one of the best known entrepreneurs of our time. With Tesla, Paypal and SpaceX he makes billions. There is all information about women, children, careers and assets.
- Entrepreneur and multi-billionaire Elon Musk is one of the most dazzling characters from “Silicon Valley”.
- Musk has six children and has been married three times.
- He heads companies like Tesla Motors and SpaceX .
Palo Alto (California) - 48-year-old Elon Musk is an American entrepreneur who has become one of the most famous and richest people in the world - his net worth is estimated at over $ 30 billion . He is one of the most dazzling characters from “Silicon Valley”.
His name is heard mainly in connection with the space company SpaceX and the electric car manufacturer Tesla. The online payment service Paypal was one of its first companies.
Elon Musk: His childhood was so hard
Today's high-speed entrepreneur was born and raised in South Africa with two younger siblings. His father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, who worked as a model, author, and nutritionist, divorced when Elon was 9 years old . Then he stayed with his father, who had to move a lot because of his job.
He never really got into school and was bullied by his classmates and victim of bullying. For example, he even had to be treated in the hospital after being pushed down the stairs by a school colleague and then beaten until he passed out.
Tesla boss Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk: A visionary from an early age
At the age of twelve, Elon wrote the code for a computer game that he sold to a computer magazine for $ 500. He experimented with saltpetre, sulfur and charcoal in search of fuel for his model rockets. Musk also knew early on that his professional future should be on a different continent.
At the age of 17 and together with his brother Kimbal , he first moved to Canada and then to the USA. There he studied economics and physics. He then went to California , where he was admitted to a Ph.D. program in physics at Stanford University . But after only two days at the renowned university, he dropped out of college and decided to found an internet company.
Elon Musk: Suddenly everything went very quickly and he became successful
The brothers had one goal in mind: "Silicon Valley", home to numerous start-ups and global technology companies. In 1995 the two founded their first company in Palo Alto, California : Zip2 , an online directory for all kinds of companies , with an integrated card function: According to their own statements, the Musks started with a start-up capital of 2000 euros and in 1999 the company was bought by the computer manufacturer Compaq for 307 million US dollars .
In the same year, the extremely productive Elon invested its share of 22 million in his next project, the payment service X.com , which was to merge with the industry colleague and online payment system Paypal shortly afterwards .
Elon Musk: A visionary and founder of high-speed companies
As a founder and entrepreneurial visionary, Musk starts his next project: the space company SpaceX , whose goal is to minimize the costs of space travel in such a way that life on other planets can be made possible. He is pursuing his own dream of manned Mars expeditions . Previously, NASA is launching a space premiere with I and SpaceX and two astronauts.
A year after SpaceX was founded , Elon Musk came up with the idea of making electric vehicles affordable for everyone. He invested in the Tesla electric car manufacturer , whose CEO and product architect he is today.
Elon Musk: Tesla boss has six children and was married three times
Elon Musk has three marriages, three divorces, one divorce cancellation and six children . As successful as he is in his work, it doesn't always seem to go so well in private for the creative and wealthy entrepreneur.
After his first wife Justine , Musk married actress Talulah Riley in 2010 . He divorced her in 2012 to marry her again in 2013. In 2014 the divorce again, which was canceled in mid-2015. But since 2018 it seems to have finally arrived. His chosen one is the 32-year-old Canadian singer Grimes , with whom he has a son.
Elon Musk with his girlfriend Grimes.
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For Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher , it is the first child, for Musk, however, the sixth. From his marriage to the writer Justine Musk , he already has five sons, twins and triplets and now a little healthy boy has joined them.
The proud father quickly became confused with his bizarre choice of name: "X Æ A-12 Musk". With this, Elon Musk sparked a public discussion worldwide. The child's mother tried to explain the name herself, so she wrote: "X" stands for the unknown variable; “Æ” means artificial intelligence in its elven language; "A12" refers to the name of "our" favorite aircraft, a military aircraft: "Great in action, but peaceful"; "A" also refers to her favorite song "Archangel". And hopefully everyone has understood that now.
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