According to the Forbes 2022 list, Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $239.6 million. In 2021, he was also named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. The self-made billionaire has founded or acquired numerous companies, which gradually brought him to glorious success. Under his leadership, Tesla has grown from a start-up to by far the most valuable car manufacturer in the world, and SpaceX has completed space flights.
Elon Musk is the father of seven children
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria in 1971. At the age of ten he taught himself to program. At 17 he went to Canada and soon after to the USA, where his incredible career took off. It’s not just Musk’s professional life that’s moving, there are always changes in his private life too. He was married to Canadian writer Justin Musk, née Wilson, from 2000 to 2008. Twins and triplets result from marriage.
Musk married British actress Talulah Riley in 2010 – and not just once. After the couple got divorced, they remarried, followed by the second divorce in 2016. Musk is now also separated, but according to his own statements still very closely connected, with the Canadian singer Grimes. The two were a couple from 2018 and separated last year. The couple have two children together, a son and a daughter, who were born through a surrogate mother. Elon Musk is the father of seven children.
Tesla, space travel: The big projects of the 50-year-old
He should be known to most through Tesla. But the 50-year-old has not only significantly promoted electromobility with the company, he has also founded various companies and now manages several companies. His activities have made him the richest person in the world today. The founding of the start-up Zip2 in 1995 made him a multimillionaire a few years later. With his winnings, he founds an online payment service that soon becomes Paypal: Elon Musk earns a three-digit million amount – enough money to found the space company SpaceX in 2002.
A year later, a group of engineers founded Tesla as a start-up. According to the company, the intention is to prove “that electric vehicles do not mean a compromise, but can offer more performance, acceleration and driving pleasure than petrol engines.” In 2004, Elon Musk got involved with an investment worth millions, and in 2008 he became the head of the company. In the following year, Tesla presented its first production vehicle, the Roadster. This is followed by the Model S, the Model X and in 2016 the Model 3. In 2019 the US carmaker will present the Model Y. The product range also includes roof tiles with an integrated solar system and electricity storage for private households and commercial purposes.
In mid-2014, Tesla will begin building its first gigafactory in Nevada, USA. On March 22, the US company will open its gigafactory in Grünheide in Brandenburg, Tesla’s first gigafactory in Europe. The car manufacturer now has production sites in the USA, in China and now in Germany. Musk’s group is by far the most valuable automaker in the world on the stock exchange. Three specially developed “secret master plans” should lead Tesla to success. Musk published the first in 2006, the second followed ten years later, and he is still working on the third, as he announced on Twitter in mid-March.
And SpaceX is also continuing. The space company cooperates a lot with the US space agency Nasa; more manned and unmanned flights to the International Space Station (ISS) are planned. The company is currently trying to get a tender to offer a first commercial moon landing device. Another goal of SpaceX is to settle humans on Mars.
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