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Elon Musk

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Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is a South African-born entrepreneur with interests in commercial aerospace and electric vehicles.

Category
Entrepreneurs
Nationality
United States, Canada, South Africa
Born
1971-06-28
Wikidata
Q317521
Occupations programmerengineerentrepreneurinvestorpoliticiancivil servantinventorvoice actorfinancial industryphilanthropist
Aliases Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is a South African-born entrepreneur with interests in commercial aerospace and electric vehicles.

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Founded SpaceX in 2002; participated in early investment in Tesla in 2004, and became CEO in 2008.

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His entrepreneurial experience includes Internet payment business, and later rocket and electric vehicle development.

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The future we're building -- and boring ↗ TED · 2017 · English · Video Link checked 2026-10-19 Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works ↗ TED · 2022 · English · Video Link checked 2026-10-19

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