• Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa.

• He was a self-taught computer programmer who sold his first computer game, Blastar, for $500 when he was 12.

• Musk attended private school in Pretoria until the age of 17, when he left for Canada to attend Queen’s University.

• Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received dual degrees in economics and physics.

• After college, Musk moved to California to pursue a PhD in applied physics at Stanford University, but dropped out after two days to start his first company, Zip2.

• After the sale of Zip2, Musk founded the online payment system X.com, which merged with Confinity to become PayPal.

• Musk then founded SpaceX in 2002 and became CEO of Tesla Motors in 2004.

• Musk’s Starlink has played a pivotal role in the Ukrainian-Russian war of 2022

• Elon Musk has expressed concern over the risks of artificial intelligence, specifically getting in the hands of the wrong person, but also worries about it gaining too much power over humanity

• Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI, a nonprofit research laboratory dedicated to artificial intelligence. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of OpenAI.

• Musk founded the company Neuralink in order to pursue a seamless interface between the human brain and computers

• Musk also founded the Boring Company in order to pursue underground tunneling technologies which allow for solutions to traffic and various other transportation issues.

• In 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter in an effort to protect free speech and protect against ideological censorship

• Musk has been an advocate of decentralized currencies, especially in the form of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin.

• Elon Musk was married to author Justine Wilson from 2000 to 2008.

• He then married actress Talulah Riley in 2010, divorced in 2012, remarried in 2013, and divorced again in 2016.

• Elon Musk was in a relationship with musician Grimes from 2018 till early 2022.

• He had six kids with Justine Wilson, one of whom passed away as an infant

• Musk has two kids, a boy and a girl, with Grimes

• Elon Musk has two kids, twins, with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis

• Elon Musk was previously linked to musician Lana Del Rey.

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