Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/'i:lanor EE-lon) was born June 28, 1971) is an investor and business magnate. He is the CEO, founder, and chief engineer at SpaceX as well as the CEO as well as the angel investor, the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., and the CEO and owner of Twitter, Inc., and the creator of The Boring Company. He also co-founded Neuralink, OpenAI, and is the president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. His net worth was estimated to be $139 billion in December 2022, mostly due to his stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is the second-highest-paid person worldwide, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's real-time billionaires list. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and was briefly a student at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18, becoming a citizen through his Canadian-born mother. The following year after, he was admitted to Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where the bachelor's degree was awarded to him in economics and physics. In 1995, he moved to California to study at Stanford University. After just two days, he resigned and along with his brother Kimbal co-founded the internet-based city guide software company Zip2. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307 million. Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com joined with Confinity in 2000 to create PayPal that eBay purchased for $1.5 billion in 2002.
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