Nowadays you need to find a person who doesn’t know who Elon Musk is, he is the richest person in the whole world. You might want to know how Elon Musk beat billionaires like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, and achieved the top place in this prestigious list. 

Elon Musk is the Co-founder of six successful companies including companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring. Many people around the world are interested in his career, personal life, net worth, and lifestyle. So here we are, come with all the interesting facts and information you wanna know about the richest person in the world Elon Musk.

Biography:

The full name of the richest person in the world is Elon Reeve Musk and he was born in 1971 on 28th June in South Africa’s capital city, Pretoria. In childhood, Elon Musk attended the Waterkloof House Preparatory School and the Bryanston High School. And then he graduated from the Pretoria Boys High School.

Elon Musk was a child of a wealthy family since both his parents Maye Musk and Errol Musk had respectable and highly-paid jobs. Elon was brought up in South Africa with his younger brother, Kimbal, and sister, Tosca. 

Early Life Story:

According to Elon’s brother, Elon Musk was interested in science from the very beginning. After being traumatically bullied by his classmates, he decided to become successful and make the world a better place for everyone. 

At the age of 17, he left South Africa and came to Canada and joined Queen’s University and get Canadian citizenship for some years. But Elon Musk didn’t know how to stop so he went to the US to study economics and physics. He got into the University of Pennsylvania. 

Elon Musk also joined a Ph.D. degree class in material science at Stanford University but just after 2 days he left it and concentrated on building his own company.

Career: 

During Elon Musk’s college days, he and his roommate get a 10-bedroom house and make that a nightclub to earn money for their rent. Even at the early stage of his career life, he assumed that the new world will be dependent on the internet so Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal started a small company with the compositions of Google Maps and Yelps and named it Zip 2. 

They started this company to make businesses understand that the online era has been coming. During the early 90s, they became successful because, after a lot of struggle, they finally have some clients who want to promote their businesses online. 

After the success of Zip 2, Elon Musk and his brother started an online money transaction business and later joined hands with the same kind of company and he became the CEO of the well-known company PayPal. But due to some clashes in 2002, he sold the company to eBay for $1.5 billion and became the 11.7 % shareholder of the company. 

The Success Of Tesla:

Since Elon Musk was always fascinated with electric cars, he focused on making a company that manufactures electric cars. At first, he became an investor in these companies, and then the success story of Tesla began. 

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning ask Elon Musk to join their start-up company Tesla which works on making electric cars to form a sustainable and green energy-based automobile industry. After many struggles, Tesla’s first car “Tesla Roadster” became a success after a big press conference and pre-ordered around 90,000 million dollars. 

But due to the huge downfall in the automobile industry in 2007, Tesla found it difficult to hold a stand in that industry. In this situation, Eberhard left the company and left Elon Musk to become the CEO and the product architect of the company. Within 1 year Elon made Tesla the world’s one of the best electric car manufacturers. 

Later when the new Tesla X model became the hit model of the market and got high ratings from the National Safety Administration. And then we all know the rest. Today Tesla is one of the world’s biggest car manufacturing companies.

SpaceX:

SpaceX is a private company that focuses on manufacturing spacecraft for space stations. Elon Musk spent 100 million dollars on this company in 2002. 

In 2007 SpaceX signed a contract that stated that the company designs rockets for NASA and the US Air Force. Now he focuses on making the 2025 Mars mission spacecraft with NASA. 

Lifestyle:

Being the richest person in the whole world, Elon Musk lived a lavish life with every luxury thing a person can own. Elon has an interesting marriage life since he has 2 exes but 3 failed marriages. Musk first got married in 2000 to Justine Wilson and had 5 children. 

Then he met his second wife Talulah Riley in 2010. He married her twice and got divorced twice. And then had a relationship with Grimes and had children. Elon Musk had 10 children in total. 

Net Worth:

Elon Musk is a billionaire and has a net worth of around 225.3 billion dollars. He got 23 percent of Tesla, one of the main reasons for him becoming the richest person in the world. He owns luxurious houses, cars, and private jets. 

When in 2021 he announced that Tesla accepted bitcoin as a mode of payment then he owned a huge amount of cryptocurrency. Elon is the richest businessman with multiple successful businesses. 

Conclusion:

Elon Musk is a genius with impressive educational knowledge and an immensely successful businessman in the business world. Apart from the business he also has an interesting personal life with a lot of controversies. Here we provide interesting facts about Elon Musk as much as possible. Hope you like the article. 

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