Elon Musk was twice divorced and married third and was also in affair 1 time. Know everything about Elon Musk.

 

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.