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Here is a have a look at the lifetime of Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX.
Birth date: June 28, 1971
Birth place: Pretoria, South Africa
Birth identify: Elon Reeve Musk
Father: Errol Musk, engineer
Mother: Maye (Haldeman) Musk, nutritionist and mannequin
Marriages: Talulah Riley (2013-2016, divorced and 2010-2012, divorced); Justine Wilson (2000-2008, divorced)
Children: with Justine Wilson: Nevada, died at 10 weeks; twins Griffin and Vivian Wilson; triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai; with Grimes: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Tau Techno Mechanicus; with Shivon Zilis: twins Strider and Azure, Arcadia and Seldon Lycurgus; with Ashley St. Clair: Romulus
Education: Attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1990-1992; University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in economics and B.A. in physics, 1995; briefly attended Stanford University in 1995
CEO and lead designer of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), a business house exploration firm.
CEO and product architect of electrical automaker Tesla Motors.
Chairman of Musk Foundation, a company supporting analysis on renewable power, human house exploration and pediatrics.
At age 12, Musk bought his code for a online game known as “Blastar” to a pc journal for $500.
Film director Jon Favreau has mentioned Musk helped inspire the on-screen version of genius billionaire Tony Stark in the “Iron Man” films.
1995 – Musk co-founds Zip2 Corp., an organization that develops on-line metropolis guides.
1999 – Sells Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million.
March 1999 – Co-founds X.com, a web based banking and monetary providers firm.
March 2000 – X.com merges with Confinity and is renamed PayPal in 2001.
June 2002 – Musk founds SpaceX, with the intention of lowering the associated fee and growing the accessibility of house journey.
October 2002 – PayPal is acquired by eBay in a $1.5 billion deal. Musk pockets $165 million.
February 2004 – Musk joins Tesla as chairman of the board and oversees the preliminary spherical of funding funding.
October 2008 – Becomes CEO and product architect of Tesla.
December 8, 2010 – The Dragon, an unmanned craft developed by SpaceX, splashes down within the Pacific Ocean. The Dragon is the primary business spacecraft by a privately owned firm to orbit the Earth and return.
May 25, 2012 – The Dragon makes history as the primary non-public capsule to connect with the International Space Station (ISS).
May 31, 2012 – After delivering greater than 1,000 kilos of cargo, together with meals, clothes, pc gear and provides for science experiments to the ISS, the Dragon splashes down about 560 miles off Baja, California. Musk declares the flight a “grand slam.” It is the primary business mission accomplished by a privately-owned spacecraft.
December 11, 2015 – Announces plans to help fund a non-profit artificial intelligence research center called OpenAI.
April 8, 2016 – For the first time, SpaceX lands its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship.
March 30, 2017 – SpaceX launches a used rocket. This is the primary time within the historical past of spaceflight that the identical rocket has been used on two separate missions to orbit.
June 1, 2017 – Quits two of President Donald Trump’s enterprise advisory councils after the president publicizes he’ll pull the United States out of the historic Paris local weather settlement. Musk tweets, “Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.”
February 6, 2018 – SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket. The rocket carries a purple Tesla roadster into house, replete with a pretend astronaut within the driver’s seat.
August 7, 2018 – Musk announces, via Twitter, that he is considering taking Tesla private. He claims that funding has been secured.
August 10, 2018 – Two shareholders file lawsuits accusing Tesla and Musk of violating federal securities regulation by allegedly making false statements to spice up the corporate’s inventory value. Musk’s tweet about securing funding to take Tesla non-public on August 7 boosted Tesla’s inventory value instantly. But within the days following, it misplaced most of these features, reacting, no less than partly, to studies from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal that the federal Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Musk’s declare.
August 24, 2018 – In an announcement posted on the Tesla web site, Musk says he intends to keep the company public after consulting with the board of directors.
September 17, 2018 – Vernon Unsworth, the caver who helped rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded collapse Thailand in July, files a defamation lawsuit against Musk in a federal court in California. Musk grew indignant with Unsworth after the caver criticized Musk’s makes an attempt to assist with the Thai cave rescue effort by constructing a miniature submarine. On Twitter, Musk made the unfounded claim that Unsworth was a “pedo” or pedophile. Musk doubled down on his declare in different tweets earlier than deleting them. On December 6, 2019, a jury decides that Musk did not defame Unsworth.
September 18, 2018 – Tesla confirms that the Justice Department is investigating whether or not feedback made by Musk in August about taking the corporate non-public have been unlawful.
September 27, 2018 – The Securities and Exchange Commission sues Musk for making “false and misleading” statements to Tesla traders through Twitter on August 7. The SEC asks that Musk be prevented from serving as an officer or a director of a public firm.
September 29, 2018 – Musk agrees to a settlement over fraud charges with the SEC. Under the phrases of the settlement, Musk will step down as chairman of Tesla and pay a $20 million wonderful. Tesla additionally agrees to pay a $20 million wonderful, appoint two new impartial administrators and set up a committee to supervise Musk’s communications.
December 18, 2018 – Demonstrates his Boring Company’s first tunnel, constructed as an experiment in underground transportation with the purpose of offering different routes to traffic-jammed streets.
February 25, 2019 – After Musk tweets concerning the variety of automobiles he anticipates Tesla will produce in 2019, the SEC asks a federal judge to hold him in contempt of court for violating the terms of the settlement. The settlement bars Musk from posting firm data on social media with out pre-approval.
March 7, 2019 – Bloomberg reports that Musk’s Department of Defense safety clearance is beneath assessment. He resubmitted his application after he smoked marijuana during a live podcast interview in September 2018.
April 26, 2019 – Musk reaches a settlement with the SEC to resolve the case involving the 2018 tweet about taking Tesla non-public at $420 a share. According to the settlement, Musk can’t tweet about some subjects with out acquiring pre-approval from an skilled securities legal professional.
September 28, 2019 – Musk reveals a prototype of Starship, the rocket and spacecraft on the heart of his plan to colonize Mars. During an hour-long presentation concerning the subsequent steps, he says the primary passengers might board Starship and journey to orbit inside a yr.
March 23, 2020 – California Governor Gavin Newsom publicizes that Musk had acquired 1,000 ventilators and can be distributing them to assist California hospitals treating sufferers contaminated with the coronavirus. Weeks later, Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services tells NCS that the governor’s workplace had been talking to hospitals within the state day-after-day and up to now had “not heard of any hospital system that has received a ventilator directly from Tesla or Musk.” In a sequence of tweets, Musk requested Newsom to “please fix this understanding” and included a partial record of hospitals he mentioned had been despatched ventilators.
April 29, 2020 – After tweeting about coronavirus for months, Musk calls stay-at-home orders meant to gradual the coronavirus pandemic “fascist” and likens them to “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes.”
May 4, 2020 – Musk announces the birth of his son, X Æ A-12 Musk, with singer Grimes.
May 9, 2020 – Tesla recordsdata go well with in opposition to Alameda County, California after native officers there refused to let the corporate reopen its Fremont manufacturing unit. Via social media, Musk threatens to move the Tesla’s headquarters out of California, to a state the place shelter-in-place guidelines are much less restrictive.
May 24, 2020 – Grimes announces she and Musk have changed their son’s name to X Æ A-Xii in an Instagram publish.
May 30, 2020 – SpaceX and NASA launches Falcon 9, the first launch from US soil since 2011.
August 28, 2020 – Musk reveals a protype of an implantable chip for the brain in a pig test subject. The implant from his firm, Neuralink, would join wirelessly to a small, behind-the-ear receiver that might talk with a pc.
January 11, 2021 – In a YouTube video, it’s introduced that Musk has donated $5 million to the online learning organization Khan Academy.
May 8, 2021 – Musk hosts “Saturday Night Live.”
December 13, 2021 – Time magazine names Musk as Person of the Year.
March 10, 2022 – In an interview with Vanity Fair, Grimes reveals she and Musk welcomed their second child together, a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.
April 4, 2022 – Twitter says in a submitting that Musk has purchased 9.2% of its shares. The following day, Twitter says in a regulatory filing that it plans to appoint Musk to its board for a term that ends in 2024. As a part of the deal, Musk agrees to not purchase greater than 14.9% of the corporate’s shares whereas he stays on the board. On April 10, it is announced that Musk has decided not to join the board.
April 13, 2022 – An SEC submitting exhibits that Musk has made an offer to purchase Twitter.
April 25, 2022 – Twitter agrees to promote itself to Musk in a deal valued at round $44 billion. Less than a month later, Musk announces via Twitter that the deal is briefly on maintain. In his tweet, Musk hyperlinks to a Reuters report about Twitter’s most recent quarterly disclosure concerning its spam and faux account downside.
July 8, 2022 – In an SEC filing, Musk strikes to terminate his deal to buy Twitter as a result of he believes the corporate is “in material breach of multiple provisions” of the unique settlement.
July 12, 2022 – Twitter files a lawsuit against Musk in an effort to power him to observe by along with his deal to purchase the corporate.
October 27, 2022 – Musk officially completes his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. The deal’s closing averts a looming authorized battle if the acquisition didn’t shut by 5 p.m. ET Friday, October 28.
November 16, 2022 – Musk testifies in his own defense in a Tesla shareholder lawsuit examining the massive compensation package that helped make him the world’s richest individual. The lawsuit, filed by plaintiff Richard J. Tornetta in Delaware’s Chancery Court, alleges that Musk’s large 2018 pay bundle was unjust enrichment, and alleges the board failed to fulfill its authorized responsibility to behave in one of the best curiosity of Tesla shareholders. Tesla mentioned on the time it could possibly be value almost $56 billion, and the web worth at this time is $50.9 billion.
April 2023 – Twitter provides “Government-funded Media” labels to the Twitter accounts for BBC, PBS, and Voice of America. Twitter initially provides a “state-affiliated” label for NPR however switches it to “Government-funded” following an e-mail alternate between Musk and NPR.
July 12, 2023 – Announces the formation of a new company centered on synthetic intelligence, xAI.
July 23, 2023 – Rebrands Twiiter as X.
November 17, 2023 – Prominent brands halt their advertising on X after Musk publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
March 2024 – In an interview with Don Lemon, Musk particulars his prescription use of ketamine.
June 13, 2024 – Tesla shareholders re-approve a pay package for Musk worth billions that was already thrown out by a Delaware choose earlier this yr in a vote that additionally approves transferring Tesla to Texas.
November 12, 2024 – President-elect Trump publicizes that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration.
January 14, 2025 – The US Securities and Exchange Commission sues Musk for allegedly failing to correctly disclose his possession of X, then generally known as Twitter, as required by federal regulation, which allowed him to purchase shares of the platform at “artificially low prices.”
February 3, 2025 – Musk is formally serving beneath President Trump as a special government employee, in line with a White House official. The designation means Musk will not be a volunteer but in addition not a full-time federal worker.
February 2025 – Three law enforcement officials familiar with the matter tell NCS the US Marshals Service has deputized members of Musk’s non-public safety element, giving them sure rights and protections of federal regulation enforcement brokers.
February 21, 2025 – Conservative youngsters’s e book writer Ashley St. Clair recordsdata a petition looking for full custody of her little one that she claims Musk fathered.
May 28, 2025 – Announces that his time in the Trump administration has come “to an end.”
July 5, 2025 – Musk says that he is forming a third political party, after a dramatic falling out with Trump, indicating he’ll make good on threats he made if the president’s domestic policy bill became law.
Elon Musk: Starship might take individuals to orbit inside a yr