Elon Musk has just become the richest person in the world, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/iln/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. [10] Musk regretted his decision and has become estranged from his father. Joshua Haldeman was a flamboyant character. So it was with the impact of the printing press, the steam engine and the computer. 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Both of the young men were transfer studentsand ended up being placed in the funky freshman dorm. [429][431][430], From the early 2000s until late 2020, Musk resided in California, where both Tesla and SpaceX were founded. [220] A study of millions of tweets following the acquisition indicated that hate speech on the platform has become "more visible" under Musk's leadership. [61], In 2000, X.com merged with online bank Confinity to avoid competition,[53][61][62] as Confinity's money-transfer service PayPal was more popular than X.com's service. 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Musk then hunted down Justines best friend and did some research, asking where Justineusually studied and what her favorite flavor of ice cream was. [132] In November 2021, Musk proposed, on Twitter, to sell 10% of his Tesla stock, since "much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance". They were so determined. Nicholson ended upoffering Elon a summer internship at the bank and became his trusted advisor.Not long after their initial meeting, Elon invited Peter Nicholsons daughter Christie to hisbirthday party. [302] By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150billion, mostly driven by his ownership of around 20% of Tesla stock. He broke horses for local farmers, a tough job; extremely dangerous. [55] Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307million in cash in February 1999,[56][57] and Musk received $22million for his 7-percent share. [393] In December 2022, Musk called for prosecution of former NIAID director Anthony Fauci. [331][332] In 2015, Musk was a cosignatory, along with Stephen Hawking and hundreds of others, of the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence, which called for the ban of autonomous weapons. Musk has made controversial statements on politics and technology, particularly on Twitter, and is a polarizing figure. [307] On September 27, 2021, after Tesla stock surged, Forbes announced that Musk had a net worth of over $200billion, and was the richest person in the world. [462] Musk denied the report. In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Musk for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. WebElon Musk (born 1971), entrepreneur and business magnate, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. (LogOut/ Musk stepped down as chairman of Tesla and paid a $20 million fine as part of a settlement agreement with the SEC. [323] Musk's statements have provoked controversy, such as for mocking preferred gender pronouns,[324][325] and comparing Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. [410] Notably, Tesla generates some of its revenue from its sales of carbon credits granted to the company, by both the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Chinese national carbon trading scheme. Jill Lepore, a historian at Harvard University, suggests Musk was shaped by his adolescent love of science fiction and the strange, science-obsessed politics of his Canadian grandfather. [437] They had twins in 2004 followed by triplets in 2006. [179] The Los Angeles tunnel, less than two miles (3.2km) in length, debuted to journalists in 2018. [451] Grimes gave birth to their son in May 2020. After two days, he dropped out and with his brother Kimbal, co-founded the online city guide software company Zip2. At Penn, he met people that thought like him, Maye said. [448] Musk was later accused by Johnny Depp of having an affair with Heard while she was still married to Depp. [398][399], In September 2020, Musk stated that he would not get the COVID-19 vaccine, because he and his children were "not at risk for COVID". His grandfather was head of the Technocracy, Inc. movement in Canada during the 1930s and 1940s. The Musks are of Anglo-Canadian, English, Swiss, His maternal grandfather moved from Canada to South Africa around 1950. Notable members. The CCF was an extreme-left party that was nationalizing successful businesses in the province and buying farmland where it set up communal farms, popularized during the rise of communism in the old Soviet Union. [434], Musk met his first wife, Canadian Justine Wilson, while attending Queen's University in Ontario, Canada; and they married in 2000. We are the kinds of people that can be by ourselves at a party and notfeel awkward, Farooq said. best thing they could do would be suicide. [290][292], His flight usage is tracked on social media through ElonJet. We Checked With His Schoolmates", "Multi-billionaire Elon Musk: 'I arrived in North America at 17 with $2,000', "Elon Musk's college pal: This is what 'differentiates Elon from the rest of humanity', "SpaceX, founded by Penn graduate Elon Musk, launches U.S. astronauts into space", "Does Elon Musk Have an Undergraduate Degree in Physics? [394][395], In March 2020, Musk promised that Tesla would make ventilators for COVID-19 patients if there were a shortage. [212] He instituted a $7.99 monthly subscription for a "blue check",[213][214][215] and laid off a significant portion of the company's staff. When Elon Musk Hooked Up With The Pagan Witch. [23] In 2018, Musk left the OpenAI board to avoid possible future conflicts with his role as CEO of Tesla as the latter company increasingly became involved in AI through Tesla Autopilot. What we did not know is that his Canadian grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an avid supporter of Technocracy, served as Research Director and ultimately became the the head of the Technocracy, Inc. party in Canada. Joshua was a farmer, chiropractor, bronc rider, airplane pilot and even organized one of Canadas first rodeos. A Complete Timeline of Elon Musk's Business Endeavors. [91] In 2020, SpaceX launched its first crewed flight, the Demo-2, becoming the first private company to place astronauts into orbit and dock a crewed spacecraft with the ISS. [333] Musk's AI stances have been called alarmist and sensationalist by critics such as computer scientist Yann LeCun and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg,[334][335] and led the think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation to award Musk its Annual Luddite Award in 2016. [378][379][380][381], Musk was criticized for his public comments and conduct related to the COVID-19 pandemic. [20][24], Ashlee Vance described Musk as an awkward and introverted child. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. Copyright Coherent Publishing, LLC 2016-23. Elon Musks grandmother, Winnifred, was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and his grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman, moved to Herbert, Saskatchewan from Minnesota in 1907. [84] In 2012, the Dragon vehicle docked with the ISS, a first for a commercial spacecraft. He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University. Much of Muskism is descended from the technocracy movement that flourished in North America in the 1930s and that had as a leader Mr. Musks grandfather Joshua N. Haldeman, an ardent anti-communist. [465][466] After the release of the Business Insider article, Tesla's stock fell by more than 6%,[467] decreasing Musk's net worth by $10billion. Elon had gone to Canada a year before his mother and in 1989, at the age of 17, he moved to Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and worked for a few weeks at a relatives family farm near Waldeck. Musksintensity has continued to be a constant in their long relationship. in Pretoria, Transvaal , South Africa (51 years), This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Elon MUSK (1971), Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. [20][21][22] After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk chose to mostly live with his father. [328] Accordingly, Musk has stated that artificial intelligence poses the greatest existential threat to humanity. [87] In 2018, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy; the inaugural mission carried Musk's personal Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload. [343][344] He envisioned establishing a direct democracy on Mars, with a system in which more votes would be required to create laws than remove them. He also has a chain of restaurants and an urban farming accelerator in Brooklyn, whereby young farmers grow expensive salad in shipping containers. Should We Trust What It Says? For other uses, see, Aus diesem Schweizer Dorf stammt Tesla-Grnder Elon Musk, "Why Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk's real business inspiration is science-fiction", "How To Raise A Billionaire: An Interview With Elon Musk's Father, Errol Musk", "Elon Musk's college ex auctions mementos", "Kimbal Musk Elon's brother is leading a $25 million mission to fix food in schools across the US", "At 68, Maye Musk, the Mother of Elon, Is Reclaiming the Spotlight", Bright Green Future: How Everyday Heroes Are Re-Imagining the Way We Feed, Power, and Build Our World, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musk_family&oldid=1141914287, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. But he became interested in politics after the government seized his 5,000-acre farm during the dirty thirties, when, like many, he ran into financial difficulties. [67][68], In 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5billion in stock, of which Muskthe largest shareholder with 11.72% of sharesreceived $175.8million. [440] In an October 2022 interview with FT.com, Musk blamed the estrangement of his daughter on what the Financial Times characterized as "the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists. I waspaying my own way through college and could make an entire months rent in one night. [8] His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys to Africa and Australia in a single-engine Bellanca airplane. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. [32] While waiting for his application to be processed, he attended the University of Pretoria for five months. Please try again. ', "Which jets do Jeff Bezos and other tech billionaires own? This Might Be Where It Went", "Elon Musk Needs 10,000+ Missiles to Nuke Mars. [151][152] FOIA-released records showed that the SEC itself concluded Musk has subsequently violated the agreement twice by tweeting regarding "Tesla's solar roof production volumes and its stock price". [251], In 2013, Musk announced plans for a version of a vactraina vacuum tube trainand assigned a dozen engineers from SpaceX and Tesla to establish the conceptual foundations and create initial designs. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton. The pair attended the sameabnormal-psychology class and compared their grades following an exam. Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. Musk had found people who responded to his ambition rather than mocking it, and he fed onthis environment.Navaid Farooq, a Canadian who grew up in Geneva, ended up in Musks freshman-yeardormitory in the fall of 1990. He covered the windows with trash bags to make it pitch black inside anddecorated the walls with bright paints and whatever objects he could find. | A GOOD DEATH | Ickonic A Right To Know - David Icke Interview - Part One. [308] In November 2021, Musk became the first person worth over $300billion. In December 1994, he had to come up with a business plan for one of his classesand ended up writing a paper titled The Importance of Being Solar. The document started with a bitof Musks wry sense of humor. Both Musk and Gates have three children. He even helped start the Canadian version of the Technocratic Party, which was temporarily banned in Canada. Joshua Haldeman was a flamboyant character. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. [336], Musk has described climate change as the greatest threat to humanity after AI,[337] and has advocated for a carbon tax. It probably sounded like super-crazy talk.Musks insistence on explaining the early origins of his passion for electric cars, solar energy, androckets can come off as insecure. I had a roommatefrom Hong Kong, and he was a really nice guy, Musk said. "[385][386] In an email to Tesla employees, Musk referred to COVID-19 as a "specific form of the common cold" and predicted that confirmed COVID-19 cases would not exceed 0.1% of the U.S. [342] He has suggested the use of nuclear weapons to terraform Mars. [69][70] In 2017, more than 15 years later, Musk purchased the X.com domain from PayPal for its sentimental value. [160][161] Tesla directors settled the lawsuit in January 2020, leaving Musk the sole remaining defendant. [241], Musk is the president of the Musk Foundation,[242] whose stated purpose is to: provide solar-power energy systems in disaster areas; support research, development, and advocacy (for interests including human space exploration, pediatrics, renewable energy and "safe artificial intelligence"); and support science and engineering educational efforts. Last year, Musk revealed that he was conducting satellite internet testing in rural New Brunswick. Any time she acted cool toward him, Musk responded with his usual show offorce. Hed been obsessed with video games since hischildhood and had held a gaming internship. [490] Awards for his contributions to the development of the Falcon rockets include the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics George Low Transportation Award in 2008,[491] the Fdration Aronautique Internationale Gold Space Medal in 2010,[492] and the Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal in 2012. He founded Zip2 in 1998 with his brother Elon Musk and later sold it to Compaq for $307 million. The track was used in January 2017, and Musk also announced that the company started a tunnel project, with Hawthorne airport as its destination. Then, I believe the second sentence out of hismouth was I think a lot about electric cars, Christie said. The source stated that in November 2018, Musk, SpaceX, and the former flight attendant entered into a severance agreement granting the attendant a $250,000 payment in exchange for a promise not to sue over the claims. He would call very insistently, she said. [404] In January 2023, Musk revealed that he experienced intense adverse reactions after his 2nd COVID-19 vaccine booster shot. But he fears a tax on billionaires", "Elon Musk targets Sen. 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