Elon Musk is a businessman primarily known for his involvement in Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter. As of 2025, he holds a senior advisory position to US President Donald Trump and effectively leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). With an estimated net worth of $320 billion USD in March 2025, Forbes recognizes him as the wealthiest individual globally.
On June 28, 1971, Elon Reeve Musk was born. He would later become a businessman known for his roles in Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter (now X).
In 1980, Elon Musk's parents divorced, and he chose to live primarily with his father.
In 1989, Elon Musk emigrated from South Africa to Canada, obtaining citizenship through his mother.
In 1990, Elon Musk entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
In 1994, Elon Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley: at Pinnacle Research Institute and Rocket Science Games.
In 1995, Elon Musk co-founded Zip2, a software company.
In 1995, Elon Musk was accepted to a graduate program at Stanford University but did not enroll. He also applied for a job at Netscape, reportedly without receiving a response.
In 1997, Elon Musk was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in physics and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
In February 1999, Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash, and Elon Musk received $22 million for his 7-percent share.
In 1999, Elon Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company.
In 2000, Elon Musk contracted a severe case of malaria while on vacation in South Africa.
In 2000, Elon Musk married Justine Wilson, a Canadian author he met at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
In 2000, Elon Musk was ousted as CEO of X.com due to technological issues and lack of a cohesive business model.
In 2001, Elon Musk became involved with the nonprofit Mars Society and discussed plans to place a growth-chamber for plants on Mars.
In 2001, Elon Musk founded the Musk Foundation.
In 2001, X.com was renamed PayPal.
In May 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX and became the company's CEO and Chief Engineer, using $100 million of his early fortune.
From 2002 to 2018, the Musk Foundation donated nearly half of its $25 million directly to Musk's OpenAI.
In 2002, Elon Musk and Justine Wilson's first child, Nevada Musk, died of sudden infant death syndrome at 10 weeks old.
In 2002, Elon Musk became a U.S. citizen.
In 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, with Elon Musk receiving $175.8 million as the largest shareholder.
In 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion, after X.com merged to form PayPal. That year, Elon Musk also became a U.S. citizen.
In July 2003, Tesla Motors, originally Tesla, Inc., was incorporated by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
In February 2004, Elon Musk led the Series A round of investment in Tesla, investing $6.35 million and becoming the majority shareholder and chairman of the board.
In 2004, Elon Musk and Justine Wilson had twins via in vitro fertilization (IVF).
In 2004, Elon Musk joined Tesla, Inc. as an early investor.
In 2006, Elon Musk and Justine Wilson had triplets via in vitro fertilization (IVF).
In 2006, Elon Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity, which was founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive.
In 2007, a series of escalating conflicts occurred within Tesla, leading to changes in leadership.
In 2008, Elon Musk and Justine Wilson divorced and began shared custody of their children.
In 2008, Elon Musk assumed leadership of Tesla as CEO and product architect.
In 2008, Elon Musk became the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.
In 2008, Elon Musk began dating English actress Talulah Riley.
In 2008, Elon Musk received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics George Low Transportation Award for his contributions to the development of the Falcon rockets.
In 2008, Elon Musk was a partial inspiration for the characterization of Tony Stark in the Marvel film Iron Man.
In 2008, Tesla began delivery of the Roadster, an electric sports car and the first mass production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells.
In 2009, a lawsuit settlement with Eberhard designated Elon Musk as a Tesla co-founder.
In 2010, Elon Musk had a cameo appearance in the film Iron Man 2.
In 2010, Elon Musk received the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Gold Space Medal for his contributions to the development of the Falcon rockets.
In 2010, Tesla had its initial public offering.
In 2010, Time listed Elon Musk as one of the most influential people in the world.
In 2011, the Space Shuttle retired, leading to SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft replacing it for flights to the International Space Station (ISS).
In 2012, Elon Musk and Talulah Riley divorced.
In 2012, Elon Musk received the Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal for his contributions to the development of the Falcon rockets.
In 2012, Elon Musk supported Barack Obama for president again.
In 2012, Tesla launched the Model S, a four-door sedan.
In 2012, the Dragon vehicle docked with the ISS, a first for a commercial spacecraft.
In August 2013, Elon Musk announced plans for a version of a vactrain and assigned engineers from SpaceX and Tesla to design a transport system between Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
By 2013, SolarCity had become the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States.
In 2013, Elon Musk made a cameo appearance in the film Machete Kills.
In 2013, Time listed Elon Musk as one of the most influential people in the world.
In 2014, Elon Musk briefly filed for divorce from Talulah Riley for a second time.
In 2014, Elon Musk promoted the idea of SolarCity building an advanced production facility in Buffalo, New York, which was intended to be triple the size of the largest solar plant in the United States.
In December 2015, Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company.
In 2015, Elon Musk appeared in The Simpsons episode "The Musk Who Fell to Earth".
In 2015, Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence research.
In 2015, Elon Musk received an honorary doctorate in engineering and technology from Yale University and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Honorary Membership.
In 2015, Tesla launched the Model X, a crossover vehicle.
In 2016, Elon Musk and Talulah Riley finalized their second divorce.
In 2016, Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink, a company focused on brain–computer interfaces.
In 2016, Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup, with an investment of $100 million.
In 2016, Elon Musk made an appearance in the film Why Him?
In 2016, Tesla acquired SolarCity for $2 billion and merged it with its battery unit to create Tesla Energy.
In 2017, Elon Musk appeared in the Young Sheldon episode "A Patch, a Modem, and a Zantac®".
In 2017, Elon Musk founded the Boring Company to construct tunnels, and revealed plans for specialized, underground, high-occupancy vehicles that could travel up to 150 miles per hour and circumvent above-ground traffic in major cities.
In 2017, Elon Musk launched the Boring Company, which aims to develop tunnel transportation.
In 2017, Elon Musk purchased the domain X.com from PayPal for an undisclosed amount.
In 2017, Tesla launched the Model 3, a mass-market sedan.
In 2017, construction of the SolarCity production facility in Buffalo, New York, was completed.
In early 2017, Elon Musk expressed interest in buying Twitter and questioned the platform's commitment to freedom of speech.
From 2002 to 2018, the Musk Foundation donated nearly half of its $25 million directly to Musk's OpenAI.
In 2018, Elon Musk and Canadian musician Grimes confirmed they were dating.
In 2018, Elon Musk entered into a settlement agreement with the SEC following a controversial tweet. In 2019, the SEC requested a court to find him in contempt for violating the terms of the 2018 settlement agreement.
In 2018, Elon Musk was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
In 2018, Time listed Elon Musk as one of the most influential people in the world.
In 2018, a lawsuit was filed regarding Elon Musk's pay package from Tesla. In January 2024, a Delaware judge ruled that Musk's $55 billion pay package be rescinded.
In 2018, the Los Angeles tunnel, less than two miles in length, debuted to journalists, utilizing Tesla Model Xs for transport.
In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Elon Musk for a tweet about taking Tesla private, alleging securities fraud. Two days later in 2018, Musk settled with the SEC, and Musk and Tesla were each fined $20 million. Musk was also forced to step down as Tesla chairman for three years.
In March 2019, through his label Emo G Records, Elon Musk released a rap track titled "RIP Harambe" on SoundCloud.
In May 2019, the first large constellation of Starlink satellites was deployed.
In 2019, Elon Musk made a cameo appearance in the film Men in Black: International.
In 2019, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla would build half a million cars that year, leading the SEC to seek contempt charges for violating the 2018 settlement agreement. The SEC and Musk then clarified the agreement details.
In January 2020, Tesla directors settled the lawsuit filed by multiple shareholder groups regarding the purchase of SolarCity, leaving Elon Musk as the sole remaining defendant.
In May 2020, Elon Musk resigned from chairman of the board of Tesla as part of the settlement of a lawsuit from the SEC.
In 2020, Elon Musk supported Joe Biden, endorsed candidate Andrew Yang and expressed support for Yang's proposed universal basic income, and endorsed Kanye West's 2020 presidential campaign.
In 2020, SpaceX launched its first crewed flight, the Demo-2, becoming the first private company to place astronauts into orbit and dock a crewed spacecraft with the ISS.
In 2020, Tesla launched the Model Y, a crossover vehicle.
In 2020, a judge blocked a lawsuit claiming that a tweet by Elon Musk regarding Tesla's stock price ("too high imo") violated an agreement. FOIA records later revealed the SEC concluded Musk violated the agreement twice by tweeting about Tesla's solar roof production volumes and its stock price.
In 2022, Elon Musk released internal documents relating to Twitter's moderation of Hunter Biden's laptop controversy in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.
In early 2020, the joint venture between SolarCity and Panasonic that operated the Buffalo, New York, production facility came to an end.
In late 2020, Elon Musk relocated to Cameron County, Texas, citing California's complacency regarding its economic success, after residing in California since the early 2000s.
In the summer of 2020, Tesla became the most valuable carmaker and entered the S&P 500 later that year.
In September 2021, Elon Musk confirmed reports that he and Grimes were "semi-separated."
In October 2021, Tesla reached a market capitalization of $1 trillion, the sixth company in U.S. history to do so.
In December 2021, Elon Musk stated in an interview with Time that he was single.
By the end of 2021, the Musk Foundation's assets reached $9.4 billion, but it only dispensed $160 million to charities that year.
In 2021, Elon Musk had twins with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, via IVF.
In 2021, Elon Musk publicly expressed opposition to the Build Back Better Act.
In 2021, Elon Musk was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
In 2021, Neuralink released a video in which a macaque played the video game Pong via a Neuralink implant.
In 2021, Time selected Elon Musk as its "Person of the Year". Edward Felsenthal, then Time editor-in-chief, cited Musk's influence on life on Earth and potentially off Earth.
In 2021, after being challenged to contribute to ending world hunger, Elon Musk instead donated $6 billion to his own foundation, despite a plan showing it could feed 42 million people for a year. The Musk Foundation has been criticized for its 'self-serving' donations.
In 2021, while hosting Saturday Night Live, Elon Musk stated that he has Asperger syndrome (now merged with autism spectrum disorder), although he has not been medically diagnosed.
In early 2021, a tunnel beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center was completed by the Boring Company.
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk successfully concluded his bid for approximately $44 billion and bought Twitter.
In December 2022, Elon Musk banned the ElonJet account on Twitter, as well as temporary bans on the accounts of journalists that posted stories regarding the incident.
Beginning in 2022, Elon Musk's political contributions have mostly supported Republicans, with his first vote for a Republican going to Representative Mayra Flores in the 2022 Texas's 34th congressional district special election.
In 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter.
In 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter stock, leading to an investigation by the SEC. In October 2023, the SEC sued Musk for refusing to testify.
In 2022, Elon Musk said he would start supporting Republican Party candidates, and gave over $50 million to Citizens for Sanity, a conservative political action committee.
In 2022, Elon Musk was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
In 2022, Elon Musk's elder twin with Justine Wilson came out as a trans woman and officially changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, adopting her mother's surname to disassociate from Musk.
In 2022, Neuralink announced that clinical trials would begin by the end of the year.
In 2022, a federal probe was launched into possible animal welfare violations by Neuralink.
In 2022, after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk fired top executives, became CEO, instituted monthly subscriptions for a "blue check", and laid off a significant portion of the company's staff. Musk lessened content moderation and hate speech also increased on the platform after his takeover. In late 2022, Musk released internal documents relating to Twitter's moderation of Hunter Biden's laptop controversy in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Within the context of American politics, Elon Musk supported Democratic candidates up until 2022, at which point he voted for a Republican for the first time.
In February 2023, a jury found Elon Musk and Tesla not liable in a shareholder lawsuit concerning a tweet that had previously triggered an SEC investigation.
From June 2023 to January 2024, Elon Musk hosted a bipartisan set of X Spaces with Republican and Democratic candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, and Dean Phillips.
In July 2023, Elon Musk launched the artificial intelligence company xAI, which aims to develop a generative AI program that competes with existing offerings like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
In September 2023, the Food and Drug Administration approved Neuralink to initiate six-year human trials.
In October 2023, Grimes sued Elon Musk over parental rights and custody of their child, X Æ A-Xii.
In October 2023, the SEC sued Elon Musk for refusing to testify a third time in an investigation into his 2022 purchase of Twitter stock.
In 2023, Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X.
In 2023, Errol Musk recounted that the deal he made was to receive "a portion of the emeralds produced at three small mines" in Zambia, contrary to previous statements.
In 2023, Tesla launched the Cybertruck, a pickup truck.
Since 2023, Elon Musk's international political actions and comments have come under increasing scrutiny and criticism, especially from the governments and leaders of France, Germany, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom.
From June 2023 to January 2024, Elon Musk hosted a bipartisan set of X Spaces with Republican and Democratic candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, and Dean Phillips.
In January 2024, Delaware judge Kathaleen McCormick rescinded Elon Musk's $55 billion pay package from Tesla, deeming it unfair to shareholders.
Since January 2024, media outlets have reported alleged drug use by Elon Musk, including ketamine, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, mushrooms, and cocaine. Musk initially refused to comment, later stating he hadn't tested positive for drugs and would take them if they improved his productivity.
In February 2024, Judge Laurel Beeler ruled that Elon Musk must testify again in the investigation into his purchase of Twitter stock in 2022.
In July 2024, after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Elon Musk endorsed him for president.
In August 2024, Trump committed to giving Elon Musk an advisory role, with Musk accepting the offer.
In November and December 2024, Elon Musk suggested that the organization could help to cut the U.S. federal budget, consolidate the number of federal agencies, and eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and that its final stage would be "deleting itself".
In 2024, Elon Musk had a child with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, via surrogacy.
In 2024, Elon Musk started supporting international far-right political parties, activists, and causes, and has shared far-right misinformation and numerous conspiracy theories.
In 2024, Elon Musk supported the far-right Alternative for Germany in Germany.
In 2024, Elon Musk was the largest donor in the U.S. presidential election and supported global far-right figures, causes, and political parties.
In January 2025, Elon Musk was appointed head of Trump's newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
In January 2025, the SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk for securities violations related to his 2022 purchase of Twitter.
In January 2025, the organization was created by executive order, and Elon Musk was designated a "special government employee".
In March 2025, Forbes estimated Elon Musk's net worth to be $320 billion USD, making him the wealthiest person in the world.
As of March 16, 2025, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$305 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and $320 billion according to Forbes.
In 2025, Elon Musk had a child with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink.
In early 2025, Elon Musk was criticized for his treatment of federal government employees, including his influence over the mass layoffs of the federal workforce.
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