Born in South Africa, American and Canadian citizen, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, the richest man in the world has become a central figure of American neocapitalism with his extraplanetary ambitions and political ideals, which he shares with his 110 million followers on Twitter.
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After months of adventures, comings and goings, Elon Musk finally took over the social network, which is the target of his criticism.
Who is Musk?
- Entrepreneur;
- 51 years;
- Head of Tesla, the world's first mass manufacturer of electric vehicles;
- Head of SpaceX, the space company that will help NASA send astronauts to the Moon by 2025.
Fortuna
Forbes estimates his wealth at around 221 billions of dollars – which he accumulated mainly thanks to Tesla and served to finance several personal adventures, such as Neuralink, a venture that aims to directly connect the human brain to a computer, as well as Boring Company, which seeks to revolutionize urban transport through tunnels.
Controversies
He recently gave advice on Twitter to end the war in Ukraine – a view that doesn't sit well with Kiev –, challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a duel and compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler.
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In 2018, he smoked marijuana during a recorded interview, in which he mentioned the conquest of space, the end of the world and the libido of bonobos, a species of monkey.
In May 2021, he revealed that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism.
Divorced three times, Musk is the father of ten children, one of whom died at 10 weeks. Another, a trans girl, formally asked to change her surname along with her gender, with the aim of severing any ties with her father.
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The American press revealed in July that Musk had twins in November with a Neuralink executive, weeks before the birth of Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who he had with singer Grimes and who is the younger sister of his son “X Æ A-12 ” .
Roots
Born in the South African city of Pretoria on June 28, 1971, to an engineer father and a Canadian mother who worked as a model, Elon Musk He studied in Canada and then in the United States.
At the age of 24, together with his friend Kimbal, he created Zip2, an online software publisher. He became a millionaire before he was 30 when he sold it to computer maker Compaq in 1999 for more than $300 million.
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The young entrepreneur then founded X.com, which would be incorporated into PayPal and later purchased by eBay in 2002 for 1,5 billion dollars.
With SpaceX, founded in the process, Musk achieved another success, making the company the axis of NASA's new ambitions.
“The global goal is to allow life to develop on different planets and make humanity a space civilization,” he said in an interview with Time magazine, which named him person of the year at the end of 2021.
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(With AFP)
