Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and the founder and CEO of SpaceX, an entrepreneur and engineer known for electric cars, reusable rockets and the Starlink satellite internet network. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971, he moved to Canada in 1989 and later studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning degrees in physics and business. He co-founded Zip2 and X.com, which merged into PayPal, before founding SpaceX in 2002.

He also owns X, formerly Twitter, which he bought in 2022, and founded xAI, The Boring Company and Neuralink. His work is driven by a long-term goal of making humanity a multi-planet species and by a habit of tackling hard engineering problems in public. SpaceX's Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit in 2008.

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