Yes, Elon
Musk married his first wife Justine Wilson in 2000 and divorced in 2008. Their
first child son died at the age of 10 weeks. And then they share the custody of
remaining five sons. In 2008, Musk begins his dating with English actress
Talulah Riley and in 2010, Musk married with her. And in 2016, Musk declares
divorce with Riley and start dating Amber Heard, his girlfriend and in 2018,
Musk revealed that Musk and Grimes were Dating.
Grimes gave birth to their son
in May 2020. And his name was “X AE A-12” and then after violating the rules of
California, that the characters are not in the modern English Alphabet, then
they changed this name to “X AE A-Xii”.
But what
about his early childhood?
Elon Reeve
Musk was born in 1917, South Africa. After divorce of his parents in 1980, Musk
had to live with his father, who he has described as ”a terrible human being…
Almost every evil thing you possibly think of, he has done”. When Musk aged 10,
he learned Computer Programming and by age 12, he sold out his Video Game
called Blastar to magazine for approx. $500. Musk was bullied throughout his
childhood and once he was hospitalized after a group of boys threw him down through
stairs. Musk completed his PhD in energy physics in the year 1955 from Stanford
University, California.
In 1995,
Musk, Kimbal, and Greg kouri founded Zip2, a web software company at a small
rented office. Company marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper
industry with maps and directions. Musk says that he could not afford an
apartment and instead slept on the couch of office, they could only afford only
one computer and according to musk “The website was up during the day and I was
coding it at night, seven days a week, all the time”. Compaq acquired Zip2 for
$307 million and musk received 7 percent for his share that is- $22 million.
In 1999, Musk co-founded X.com with a company
and after success of X.com, Company’s investors saw musk as inexperienced and
had him replaced with Bill Harris. That year, X.com merged with Confinity, and
Confinity had its own money-transfer service, PayPal. Within the merged
company, Musk returned as CEO. In 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5
billion, of which musk – the largest shareholder with 11.7% received over $100
million.
In 2002,
Musk decided to start a company that could build affordable rockets and founded
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., SpaceX.
SpaceX’s three failed launches disheartened
Musk and then SpaceX succeeded in launching the Falcon 1 in 2008 and it was the
first private rocket to reach Earth orbit.
In 2015, SpaceX successfully landed
Falcon 9. In 2018, they launched the Falcon Heavy, carried a dummy payload
(Tesla Roadster). And they planned a mission 2023, dearMoon project. In 2020,
SpaceX launched its first manned flight and becoming the first private company
to place a person into orbit and dock a crewed with the ISS.
In 2008,
Tesla built an electric sports car, the Roadster with sales of 2500 vehicles.
It was the first electric car to use lithium-ion battery. The Cybertruck an
electric truck launched in 2019.
And many
more companies are came into existence with the help of Elon Musk like-
SolarCity and Tesla Energy, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and projects like-
Hyperloop and OpenAI.
Musk was
first listed on Forbes Billionaires with a net worth of $2 billion and at the
start of 2020, the rise of net worth upto $27 billion. In November 2020, Musk
beats Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and became the third richest person
in the world. In 2021 January, Musk with a net worth of $185 billion become the
richest person in the world and yes, he owns a private Jet.