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Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [4] [5] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[6] [7] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
Musk during the 2018 inauguration of the Boring test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. In 2017, Musk founded the Boring Company to construct tunnels, and revealed plans for specialized, underground, high-occupancy vehicles that could travel up to 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) and thus circumvent above-ground traffic in major cities.
xAI was founded by Musk [7] [8] [9] in Nevada [4] on March 9, 2023, and has since been headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. [10] Igor Babuschkin, formerly associated with Google's DeepMind unit, was recruited by Musk to be Chief Engineer. [11] Musk officially announced the formation of xAI on July 12, 2023.
And that wasn’t the only Musk company hurt by his choices. “Elon is an outlier, given that he destroyed about $3 billion in brand value with the overnight change of Twitter to X,” concedes ...
2024 company ranking: No. 40. Musk joined Tesla as a venture capital backer and co-founder in 2003. Tesla’s first car was the roadster, ...
In 2004, Musk began investing in Tesla, Inc., an automotive and energy company, known for its pioneering electric vehicles. Today, Musk serves as CEO of the car and battery storage manufacturer.
The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure, tunnel construction service, and equipment company founded by Elon Musk. TBC was founded as a subsidiary of SpaceX in 2017, and was spun off as a separate corporation in 2018.
Musk's politicking reflects a wider strategy to insulate his companies from regulation or enforcement and boost their government support, according to Reuters interviews with six Musk-company ...