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5 things you may not know about Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; chairman of the Musk Foundation; and owner of Twitter, Inc. With an estimated net worth of about $210 billion as of Oct. 26, 2022, Musk is the richest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list. Musk was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at the age of 17, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian mother.

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Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford: He was at Stanford to pursue a doctorate in physics, but lasted two days before dropping out. He left school to start his first company, Zip2, which he sold four years later for over $300 million.
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Elon Musk, at a time of crisis for the Tesla company, approached Google CEO Larry Page about buying the failing car company for about 6 billion euros. Fortunately for him, he reconsidered.
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Elon Musk has seven children: he has five children with his ex-wife Justine and two children with musician Grimes. He also had another son, Nevada, who died of SIDS in 2002.
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Iron Man inspired by Elon Musk: Robert Downey Jr., while preparing for the role of Tony Stark in "Iron Man," turned to Musk for inspiration.
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Xavier, Elon Musk's son, is named after a comic book: Xavier was in fact given in honor of Professor X
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