About Elon Musk
- Elon Musk cofounded six companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and tunneling startup Boring Company.
- He owns about 21% of Tesla between stock and options, but has pledged more than half his shares as collateral for personal loans of up to $3.5 billion.
- SpaceX, founded in 2002, is worth nearly $150 billion after a $750 million tender offer in June 2023; it nearly quintupled its value in four years.
- Boring Company, which aims to defeat traffic, raised $675 million in April 2022 at a $5.7 billion valuation.
- Twitter's board agreed to sell the company to Musk for $44 billion in April 2022, after he disclosed a 9.1% stake and threatened a hostile takeover.
- The deal closed in October 2022 after Musk tried to back out and Twitter sued. Musk owns an estimated 74% of the company, which is now called X.
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Musk, who says he's worried about population collapse, has ten children with three women, including triplets and two sets of twins.
As a kid in South Africa, Musk taught himself to code; he sold his first game, Blastar, for about $500.
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I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area and then you reason up from there.
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