Elon Reeve Musk - Visionary Entrepreneur.
Born - 28 June 1971 (age 45), Pretoria, South Africa.
Height - 1.88m, 6.1ft.
Net Worth - 15.2 Billion USD.
Education - Queen's University in Ontario, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University.
Occupation - Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, Investor.
Known For - SpaceX, Tesla Inc, Hyperloop, Solar City, Open AI, The Boring Company, Zip2, Neuralink.
Awards -
- 2006 membership to USNAS Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board .
- R&D Magazine & Inc Magazine Innovator of the Year for 2007 for SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity.
- 2007 Index Design award for his design of the Tesla Roadster. Global Green 2006 product design award for his design of the Tesla Roadster.
- AIAA George Low award for the most outstanding contribution in the field of space transportation in 2007/2008.
- NWF 2008 National Conservation Achievement award for Tesla and SolarCity.
- The Aviation Week 2008 Laureate for the most significant achievement worldwide in the space industry.
- NSS Von Braun Trophy in 2008/2009, given for leadership of the most significant achievement in space.
- Automotive Executive of the Year (worldwide) in 2010 for demonstrating technology leadership and innovation via Tesla.
- Listed as one of Time's 100 people who most affected the world in 2010.
- FAI presented Musk in 2010 with the highest award in air and space, the FAI Gold Space Medal, for designing the first privately developed rocket to reach orbit.
- Named as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine.
- Recognized as a Living Legend of Aviation in 2010 by the Kitty Hawk Foundation for creating the successor to the Space Shuttle (Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft).
- In 2010, Musk was elected to the board of trustees of the CIT.
- In February 2011, Forbes listed Musk as one of "America's 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under.
- In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, he was ranked as the No. 10 (tied with rocketry pioneer and scientist Wernhern Von Braun) most popular space hero.
- In June 2011, Musk was awarded the US $250,000 Heinlein Prize for Space Commercialization.
- In 2011, Musk was honored as a Legendary Leader at the Churchill Club Awards.
- In 2012, Musk was awarded with the RAS highest award: a Gold Medal.
- Musk was the 2012 recipient of Smithsonian's magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Technology category.
- In 2013, Musk was named the Fortune Businessperson of the year for SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla.
- In 2015, he was awarded IEEE Honorary Membership.
- As of 2015, Musk serves on the board of advisors of Social Concepts, Inc.
- In 2016, The Drive, a division of Time, named Musk the most influential person in the car business and as the second most influential person in the automotive tech sector.
- In June 2016, Business Insidernamed Musk one of the "Top 10 Business Visionaries Creating Value for the World".
- In December 2016, Musk was ranked 21st on Forbes' Most Powerful People.
- In March 2017, Musk was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 3 in the list of 200 Most Influential Philanthropists and Social Entrepreneurs.
Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, the son of Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and Dietician from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot and sailor. He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tocsa (born 1974). His paternal grandmother was British, and he also has Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His maternal grandfather was American, from Minnesota. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in the suburbs of Pretoria. During his childhood he was an avid reader. At age 10, he developed an interest in computing with the Commodore VIC-20. He taught himself computer programming at the age of 12, sold the code for a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar, to a magazine called PC Office and Technology, for approximately $500. A web version of the game is available online. Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood, and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then beat him until he lost consciousness. Musk was initially educated at private schools, attending the English-speaking Waterkloof House Prepertuary School. Musk later graduated from Pretoria Boys High School and moved to Canada in June 1989, just before his 18th birthday, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Although at the time Musk had to register to become a Canadian citizen, Bill C-37, which came into law in April 2009, effectively made his Canadian citizenship retroactive to his birth since he was born in the first generation abroad to a Canadian-born mother. Therefore, with the law change, he is considered to have always been a Canadian citizen by birth.
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