Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South African-born and Canadian American citizen entrepreneur, businessman, inventor and engineer.
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He is the co-founder and CEO of SpaceX, co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc., co-chairman of OpenAI, founder and CEO of Neuralink, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder and former chairman of SolarCity, co-founder of Zip2 Corporation.
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He was accepted at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, for undergraduate study in 1989. In 1992, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and took Bachelor of Science in Physics and Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton School of Business and PhD in Applied Physics and Materials Science at Stanford University in 1999.
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Elon Musk left his PhD program to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the field of science, technology, internet, renewable energy and outer space.
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In 1998, he founded X.com, known today as PayPal with Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek and Yu Pan. They sold PayPal to Ebay in 2002.

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June 28, 1971

Elon Musk was born in Pretoria.

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SpaceX pushes back its fifth launch of Starlink satellites to Sunday due to poor weather in Florida

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

February 14, 2020

Mail Online

SpaceX is pushing back its fifth Starlink launch from Saturday to Sunday due to poor weather in Florida. If all goes well, this load of 60 satellites will bring the total Starlink constellation to 300.

DealBook: Delta Plans to Go Carbon Neutral. Yes, You Read That Right.

February 14, 2020

www.nytimes.com

The airline pledges to spend at least $1 billion to buy emission offsets and invest in more efficient planes, new fuel sources and carbon-capture technologies.

Elon Musk urges his Twitter followers to delete their Facebook accounts

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline

February 10, 2020

Mail Online

Elon Musk has told his Twitter followers to delete their Facebook accounts, calling the social network 'lame. Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have previously clashed over differing views on AI

YouTuber replaces the DeLorean with Tesla's Cybertruck in iconic scene from 'Back to the Future'

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

February 7, 2020

Mail Online

Created by the user ' Elon McFly', the clip shows the Cybertruck whizzing Marty McFly and Doc Brown before hitting 88 mph before traveling through time - leaving just a bent licence plate behind.

Elon Musk's song 'Don't Doubt ur Vibe' hits SoundCloud top 10

Sky

February 6, 2020

Sky News

The electronic dance song titled 'Don't Doubt ur Vibe' has been listened to more than 2.6 million times.

Elon Musk 'doesn't care' if employees graduated high school if they're code or AI experts

By James Pero For Dailymail.com

February 5, 2020

Mail Online

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made his priorities clear in a Twitter thread advertising a 'super fun AI party/hackathon' at his residence that will include other employees who work for Tesla's AI team.

Blistering Tesla rally has made Elon Musk richer by $16 bn in 2020

Reuters

February 5, 2020

@bsindia

The controversial chief executive, who is also the majority owner and CEO of rocket maker SpaceX, recently testified that he did not have a lot of cash as he successfully defended himself in a lawsuit

Elon Musk Says 'Dire' Bitcoin (BTC) and Crypto Scams on Twitter Reaching New Levels

February 4, 2020

The Daily Hodl

Elon Musk can no longer tolerate online crypto scams. The business magnate and chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX took

Elon Musk's SpaceX clears first hurdle to Australian broadband market

Josh Taylor

February 4, 2020

the Guardian

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off with a cargo of 60 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on 29 January. Photograph: SPACEX/Handout/EPA

Uber in Vancouver, a Vehicle Ban in SF, and Other Car News

Aarian Marshall

February 2, 2020

Wired

British Columbia finally welcomes ride hail, while San Francisco's main drag goes car-free.

Company behind Hyperloop-style underground tunnels for delivering packages raises £1.5 million

By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline

February 3, 2020

Mail Online

Magway, based in Wembley, London, was founded in 2017 by Rupert Cruise, an engineer on Elon Musk 's Hyperloop project, and Phill Davies, business expert.

Elon Musk Releases Another Track On SoundCloud

January 31, 2020

Geekologie

Apparently not feeling any inspiration since dropping 'RIP Harambe' back in April, 2019, Elon Musk has just released an EDM track on SoundCloud called 'Don't Doubt ur Vibe'. It takes about a minute to really get going, if get...

Tesla boss Musk releases electronic dance track

BBC News

January 31, 2020

BBC News

Mr Musk posted a teaser picture of himself in a studio shortly before sharing the track, which he wrote.

Elon Musk drops new self-penned EDM track Don't Doubt ur Vibe

Chris Robertson

January 31, 2020

Sky News

Often known as being an online troll, fans found it hard to decide whether or not Musk was joking about releasing the new track.

Elon Musk releases electronic dance music track - but Twitter followers urge he 'stick to rockets'

By Ian Randall For Mailonline

January 31, 2020

Mail Online

The South African billionaire also changed his Twitter name to 'E "D" M' in acknowledgement of the song, which can be listened to on SoundCloud.

Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track on SoundCloud

Darrell Etherington

January 31, 2020

TechCrunch

Friday typically brings a bunch of new music releases, but this Friday's new drops includes a new track from an unlikely source - Elon Musk . The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said earlier this week he had written a new song called "Don't doubt yer vibe," to be released on "Emo G Records," but as [...]

Tesla directors settle, isolating Musk as SolarCity trial looms

Tom Hals

January 30, 2020

U.S.

Directors of Tesla Inc settled a shareholder lawsuit over its 2016 acquisition of SolarCity Corp, leaving Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk as the lone defendant facing claims that Tesla paid $2.6 billion for a worthless solar system installer, according to court documents.

Russian luxury gadget maker unveils a modified iPhone 11 Pro that mimics Tesla's Cybertruck

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

January 29, 2020

Mail Online

Caviar released a modified iPhone 11 Pro inspired by Tesla's Cybertruck. The case is made of titanium, which claims to provide 'absolute protection' -unlike the Cybertruck's windows, the firm implies.

Peter Diamandis: 'In the next 10 years, we'll reinvent every industry'

Zoë Corbyn

January 25, 2020

the Guardian

Peter Diamandis on a weightless flight launched by his Zero Gravity Corporation: 'Every powerful technology is used for good and for bad.' Photograph: XPrize/Steve Boxall

Elon Musk reveals that SpaceX will try to nab its Crew Dragon capsules in giant NETS as they land

By Ian Randall For Mailonline

January 24, 2020

Mail Online

The US aerospace firm has already been trying to use the same principle to catch the protective nosecones of rockets which are jettisoned after launch.

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