Elon Musk Biography

Fast Facts

• Son of a South African father and a Canadian mother
• Coded a video game at the age of 12, which he sold for 500 dollars
• Moved to Canada at the age of 17 to study at Queen's University, and moved to the U
• S
• two years later after transferring to the University of Pennsylvania
• Dropped out of Stanford University, where he was going to begin a Ph
• D
• , to pursue a business career
• Applied for a job at Netscape but never got a response
• His first son died 10 weeks after he was born
• Has twins and triplets with ex-wife Justine Wilson
• Co-founder of SpaceX, Tesla, Inc
• , The Boring Company, Neuralink and OpenAI