Elon Musk is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of our time. With Tesla, Paypal and SpaceX, he rakes in billions. Here is all the info to wife, children, a career and assets.
entrepreneur and Multi-billionaire Elon Musk is one of the most colorful characters from the “Silicon Valley”. Musk has six children and has already been married three Times. He guides companies as Tesla Motors or SpaceX .
Palo Alto (California) – The 48-year-old Elon Musk is an American entrepreneur and is now one of the most famous and richest people in the world – be fortune is estimated at about 30 billion US-Dollar . He is one of the most colorful characters from the “Silicon Valley”.
His name one hears, especially in connection with the space travel company SpaceX , and the electric car manufacturer Tesla. Also, the Paypal Online payment was one of his first companies.
Elon Musk: So hard his Childhood
Born and today’s High-Speed entrepreneurs with two younger brothers and sisters in South Africa, grew up in. His father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, who worked as a Model, author, and nutrition consultant, divorced, war, as Elon 9 years old . After that, he stayed with his father, who had to move because of his profession frequently.
In school he was never really the connection and was bullied by his classmates and the victim of bullying. So he had to be treated even in the hospital, after he was pushed by a school colleague down the stairs, and then to unconsciousness beaten.
+ Tesla chief Elon Musk.©dpa / Ringo H. W. Chiu
Elon Musk: A Visionary at a young age
Already at the age of twelve years, Elon the Code for a computer game, which he sold for $ 500 to a computer magazine. He experimented in search of fuel for his model rockets with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. Also was Musk from early on that his future career should be on a different continent.
17 years and together with his brother Kimbal, he moved> after Canada to the California </strong , where he was admitted to the Stanford University to a Ph. D. program in physics. However, after only two days at the prestigious University, he threw up his studies and decided to start an Internet company.
Elon Musk: Suddenly everything went very quickly and he was successful
The brothers had one goal in mind: “Silicon Valley”, home to numerous Start-up companies and global technology companies. In 1995, the two in the Palo Alto, California founded her first company: Zip2 , an Online directory for all kinds of companies, with a built-in map function. According to his own statement at the time the Musks, with 2000 euros of start-up capital, and in 1999, the company from the computer manufacturer Compaq for $ 307 million bought .
in the same year, the extremely productive Elon invested his share of the 22 million in his next project, the payment service X.com , the short time later, with the industry colleagues and Online payment system Paypal should merge.
Elon Musk: A Visionary and founder of the High – Speed companies
As the founder, and entrepreneurial Visionary Musk is launching his next project: The space travel company SpaceX , whose goal is to minimize the cost of space travel in such a way, that life on other planets can be made possible. So he followed his own dream of manned Mars expeditions . Previously, NASA is launching with SpaceX and two astronauts, a space-Premiere to the ISS.
A year after the Foundation of SpaceX Elon Musk came to the idea to make electric vehicles affordable for everyone. He invested in the manufacturer of electric cars Tesla , the CEO and Product Architect he is today.
Elon Musk: Tesla boss has six children and was married three Times
Three marriages, three divorces, a divorce, annulment, and six children, all of that has Elon Musk to show for it. So successful is he in his work, in Private it doesn’t always seem to be going so well for the creative and rich entrepreneurs.
After his first wife, Justine married to Musk in 2010, the actress Talulah Riley . Of this he left in 2012 for a divorce in order to marry you 2013. 2014 then re-divorce, however, was cancelled in mid-2015. Since 2018, he seems to be finally arrived. His choice of 32-year-old canadian singer Grimes , with whom he has a son, is selected.
+ Elon Musk with his girlfriend Grimes.©AFP / Neilson Barnard
For Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher is, it is the first child for Musk, however, the sixth. From his marriage with the novelist Justine Musk it already has five sons, twins, and triplets and now a small healthy Boy came to be.
Quickly the proud father confused but with his quirky choice of name: “X Æ A-12 Musk”. To Elon Musk sparked a worldwide public discussion. The mother of the child tried to explain the name itself, so you wrote: “X” standing for the unknown Variable; “Æ” to mean Artificial intelligence in their elven language; “A12” refers to the name of “our” Favorite aircraft, a military aircraft: “Great in battle, but peacefully”; “A” refer to your favorite song “Archangel”. And has now understood, hopefully, everyone.
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