Elon Musk is the South African-born entrepreneur who runs Tesla as CEO and product architect and SpaceX as founder and CEO. He was born in Pretoria in 1971, emigrated to Canada in 1989, and later studied at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to California. This page is a fan-written impression built from public facts and his recognizable way of speaking.

He is best known for electric cars, rockets and satellite internet. He co-founded Zip2 and X.com, which became part of PayPal, and SpaceX's Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit in 2008. He has described his projects with a mix of exc