Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a South African & Canadian businessman and engineer.
A centibillionaire, Musk is currently the richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
He is:
- The founder, CEO, CTO, and chief designer of SpaceX
- Early investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc
- Founder of The Boring Company
- Proposer of the Hyperloop
- Co-founder of Neuralink
- Co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI
- Chairman of SolarCity (prior to acquisition by Tesla)
- Co-founder of Zip2, X.com and PayPal
- Chairman of the Musk Foundation
Musk now lives in Texas (near Giga Texas) following disputes with Californian authorities. He lives with his girlfriend and musician Grimes, and his son X AE A-XII (originally named X Æ A-12).
Musk had had cameos in multiple films and TV series, including Iron Man 2 (2010), Why Him? (2016), Men in Black: International (2019), The Simpsons (2015), The Big Bang Theory (2015), South Park (2016), and Rick and Morty (2019). He has contributed interviews to the documentaries Racing Extinction (2015) and Lo and Behold (2016).
He has drawn criticism for his views on Covid-19, the Tham Luang cave rescue