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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and X, formerly Twitter (which he has owned since 2022). Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to President Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency .
The Musk family is a prominent family with roots in South Africa, Canada, England, and the United States, whose most famous member is billionaire Elon Musk.It also includes his parents Maye Musk, a model and author, and Errol Musk, a mine-owner, businessman and politician; siblings Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk, and cousin Lyndon Rive.
Musk has defended his wealth by saying he is accumulating resources for humanity's outward expansion to space. [12] At the start of 2020, Elon Musk had a net worth of $27 billion. [13] By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150 billion, mostly driven by his ownership of around 20% of Tesla stock. [14]
Figures including Elon Musk, ... The world's 10 wealthiest people grew more than $500 billion richer last ... no.2 on the rich list. However, Musk wasn't the only one to notch huge wealth gains in ...
Elon Musk has gained perhaps the most of all thanks to Donald Trump’s re-election. Not only has Musk gained monetarily, but Trump has appointed him the head of the newly christened “Department ...
Here’s an even closer look at how the world’s 10 richest people on Forbes’ Billionaires Index list got to where they are. 1. Elon Musk. Elon Musk has a net worth of $214.1 billion.
It comes as billionaire wealth ballooned three times faster in 2024 than it did in 2023, Oxfam reported, citing data from Forbes. The gains to the world's ultra-wealthy in the past 12 months have ...
In December 2024, German daily newspaper of record Die Welt published an op-ed authored by Musk, where he reiterated his endorsement of Alternative für Deutschland previously stated on X, arguing that "traditional parties have failed" as well as calling into doubt the classification of AfD as far-right.