- Today is the birthday of Elon Musk, the world’s number 1 richest man
- Elon Musk suffered huge losses after the Twitter deal
- Musk mastered computer programming at a very young age
Today is the birthday of Elon Musk, the world’s number 1 richest man. Musk, the owner of big companies like Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, has turned 52 years old. He was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His full name is Elon Reeve Musk. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s net worth is $225 billion.
Musk’s wealth grew rapidly
Elon Musk suffered a huge loss after the Twitter deal last year and was stripped of the crown of No. 1 richest man. But this year his wealth has rocketed and he has once again become the richest man in the world. Since the beginning of the year 2023, Elon Musk’s wealth has increased by 88.4 billion dollars.
Talking about the last 24 hours, Musk’s net worth has jumped by 6.55 billion dollars. Elon Musk became the richest person in the world for the first time in 2021, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Apart from this, he is the only rich person whose total wealth has crossed the $300 billion mark.
Elon Musk’s Top Companies
In Elon Musk’s business, his company Tesla is the world’s largest and most valuable electric car company, which is the most volatile of his wealth. In 2004, he became the chairman of the Tesla board and in 2007 became the CEO of Tesla. Apart from this, he is also the owner of SpaceX company. With an investment of around 125 billion dollars, this company is a leading company in the space sector. Just last year, he bought the microblogging site Twitter for $44 billion. However, after buying this company, he faced huge losses.
Among Elon Musk’s other companies, he is the co-founder of Neuralink, and this company is engaged in creating the first chip to be used as a brain-machine interface in the human brain. Musk’s portfolio also includes Solar City, which he bought in 2016. Apart from this, he is an AI veteran and co-founder of Open AI. Apart from this, Elon Musk has invested in many companies.
What did Elon Musk study?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed his schooling from Waterkloof House Preparatory School in Pretoria. After completing high school, he moved to Canada at the age of 17. He then studied at Queen’s University, University of Pennsylvania and later shifted to California after taking admission in Stanford University.
Musk was fond of books from an early age and mastered computer programming at a very young age. He first created a game called Blast and distributed it for $500. In the year 1995 he started a company called ZIP2 but after some time he sold it for around 300 million dollars.
What is Elon Musk’s life like?
As much as Elon Musk’s wealth is discussed, so is his personal life. Elon Musk has been married 3 times out of which he has been married twice to the same girl. Musk has 7 children including 6 boys and 1 girl. Elon Musk has 5 children with his first wife Canadian writer Justine Wilson and two of these children are twins. Musk married Wilson in 2000. Then in the year 2008, Musk was divorced from Wilson.
After his divorce from Wilson, he married American actress Tallulah Riley in 2010, but they divorced two years later. Then in the year 2013, Elon Musk remarried to Tallulah Riley which lasted till 2016. He then lived with singer Grimes for a long time and they have a son and a daughter together.
