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Elon Musk
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Elon Reve Musk is a South African engineer and entrepreneur in the technology sector. He is the CEO and CEO of space travel company SpaceX, CEO and product engineer of electric car maker Tesla Motors, chairman of SolarCity, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, co-founder and founding chairman of OpenAI and one of PayPal. -Founder. He is also the inventor of the fictional high-speed transport system called Hyperloop. In 2016, Elon Musk was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In the same year, Forbes Magazine named him 25th on the list of 'most powerful people in the world'. In 2019, he was jointly ranked number one on Forbes' list of America's Most Innovative Leaderships. As of June 7, 2021, Elon Musk is the 2nd billionaire in the world and has a net worth of 151 billion.
Elon Musk's mother is Canadian and his father is South African. He grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. In 1967, at the age of seventeen, he studied for a short time at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada to study at Queen's University. After studying at Queen's University for two years, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor's degree in economics and physics.