Elon Reeve Musk 

FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate, industrial

designer and engineer.[6] He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor,
[b]
 CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder
of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[9][10] Also that year, he was ranked 25th on the Forbes list of The World's
Most Powerful People,[11] and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders
of 2019.[12] Musk's net worth jumped by up to US$7 billion after end of November 2020. As of
December 8, 2020, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$144.1 billion,[1][13] making him the second-
richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos.[14] As CEO of Tesla, he is the longest tenured CEO in
history of any automotive manufacturer globally.
Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father and raised in Pretoria, South Africa.
He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada when he was 17 to
attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where
he received dual bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. He moved to California in 1995 to
begin a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University, but dropped out after
two days to pursue a business career. He co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was
acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged
with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought
by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.