Interesting details about Elon Musk, the richest man in the world

American businessman and “Tesla” CEO Elon Musk became the richest man in the world on Thursday, with a fortune exceeding $ 185 billion.

And Musk sits on the throne of the richest man in the world after he managed to bypass Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after the stock value of the company “Tesla” increased, according to the US network ” CNBC “.

It is worth noting that Bezos has been the richest man in the world since 2017 and his fortune is now $ 184 billion.

However, we don’t know a lot about Musk, including his personal life, childhood, and career details.

Been bullied

Elon Musk has had a tumultuous but successful life. He was bullied as a child, but studied at a prestigious university before becoming CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and founder of three other companies.

He has been married 3 times, most recently to Canadian musician Claire Isles, nicknamed “Grimes”.

His creation

Musk was born in South Africa on June 28, 1971. His mother, May Musk, is a dietitian and model.

After his parents separated in 1979, the nine-year-old decided to live with his father, his younger brother Kimball. However, he later regretted it in an interview with Rolling Stone.

In 1983, at the age of 12, Musk sold a simple game called Blaster to a tech magazine for $ 500.

However, his childhood was not easy and he was intimidated by his peers to the point of passing out.

After high school, Musk went to Canada with his mother, brother and sister Tosca and spent two years studying at Queen’s University in Ontario. However, he ended up at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned degrees in physics and economics.

His first practical experience

While studying at university in Pennsylvania, Elon Musk opened a restaurant with a friend and it was his first entrepreneurial experience.

He applied to Stanford University in California for his doctorate, but did not start it, and decided to test his luck in an industry that the world was in the days of a new era. , which is the dot-com on the Internet.

Then he and his brother founded Zip2 with the support of technology investors in Silicon Valley. The company has served as a travel guide for major newspapers such as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

He lived in his office

When starting this business, Musk lived in his office, swimming in communal pools. Its misfortune paid off when Compaq bought its Zip2 company for $ 341 million.

In 1999, Musk founded “X.com”, an Internet banking company, which merged a year later with a financial company owned by a friend of his, resulting in the creation of PayPal. In 2002, Musk made $ 165 million for his stake in the company, after selling it to ebay for $ 1.5 billion.

Send mice to Mars

Among his most important sayings was “I will only be happy when we flee the earth and colonize Mars”.

Before selling Zip2, Musk dreamed of his next move, which is to send mice or plants to Mars.

And in 2002, Musk spent $ 100 million to create space exploration technology, or SpaceX. SpaceX’s long-term goal is to make space travel affordable, and its current efforts have resulted in the creation of the “Dragon” spacecraft and later the distinguished “Falcon” series.

Tesla and Solar City

Musk’s concerns for space didn’t stop him from taking care of Earth, so he invested $ 70 million in the electric car company Tesla founded by Martin Eberhard.

Mask played a pioneering role in Tesla after the company produced the Roadsar in 2006. But the man’s limitless ambitions inspired him to start a business to generate power from the sun, which he called “Solar City”.

He is on the verge of financial collapse

And between SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008, the man is on the verge of financial collapse, especially with the turmoil in his social life that caused his separation from his wife Justin, after eight years of engagement. He had three twins, then twins.

Then, in 2010, he married actress Talula Riley on a family trip that witnessed turmoil and ended in his complete separation in 2016.

Nonetheless, the man’s fame grew, with NASA committing him $ 1.5 billion to send equipment into space, while Tesla lured investors outside the United States. Tesla went public, raising millions of dollars for the company.

“iron Man”

Musk’s accomplishments inspired Hollywood producers, as he did in part, in Robert Downey’s “Iron Man” film series.

His breakthrough and distinct ideas did not end there. In 2016, he created the company Boring Tunneling. A year earlier, the fact that an artificial intelligence company had ceased to function, fearing it would lead to what he called “a third world war”.

In 2017, the company created “Neuralink” to develop devices implantable in the human brain. The same year he dated actress Amber Heard, but it ended in failure.

His relationship with Trump

Politically, Musk has come under fire after joining a business advisory board affiliated with US President Donald Trump, which he later withdrew after Trump abandoned the Paris climate agreement.

In 2018, he married Canadian singer Grimes and had a baby with her, which they named X Ash A-12 Musk.

Returning to the relentless level of activity, at the end of 2019, Musk developed a new car for Tesla, the CyberTruck.

It is very interesting for Musk to make statements that he echoed recently, that he “will not own a house” despite his huge real estate portfolio, and that he will sell almost all of his physical assets.

Hyperloop train

Musk is running out of material goods doesn’t mean he’s stopping innovation. The decision to join Tesla with S&P in December was a massive move that pushed the company’s shares to half a billion dollars. Thanks to this, Musk became the richest in the world, overtaking Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon).

Musk plans to build a new high-speed train called Hyperloop that could theoretically transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.