Elon Musk | WIKI

Elon Musk | WIKI 

Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-Canadian-American business magnate, investor,engineer, and inventor. He is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc.; co-chairman of OpenAI; founder and CEO of Neuralink, and founder of The Boring Company. He is also a co-founder and former chairman of SolarCity, co-founder of Zip2, and founder of X.com, which merged with Confinity and took the name PayPal.

In December 2016, Musk was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. As of January 2018, Musk has a net worth of $20.9 billion, and is listed by Forbes as the 53rd richest person in the world.

Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by establishing a human colony on Mars.

In addition to his primary business pursuits, he has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.

Elon Musk

CEO and Chairman, Tesla

REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 2/7/18   

$20.4 B

• Elon Musk is revolutionizing transportation both on earth and in space.
• Tesla Motors, his auto manufacturer, is bringing fully-electric vehicles to the mass market. Its Model 3 car retails for a starting price of $35,000.
• SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, is now valued at more than $20 billion.
• He grew up in South Africa, then immigrated to Canada at age 17. He landed in the US as a transfer student at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Musk was a cofounder of Paypal; he scored a huge payday when the business was acquired by eBay for $1.4 billion in 2002.