Copyright 2023 David Icke Books Limited. Elon, 50, who recently reached a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion in cash, was born and raised in South Africa. [457] In December 2021, Grimes and Musk had a second child, a daughter named Exa Dark Siderl Musk (nicknamed "Y"), born via surrogacy. Both Musk and Gates have three children. 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Maye had family scattered all across Canada, and Musk began reaching out to them. Jill Lepore, a historian at Harvard University, suggests Musk was shaped by his adolescent love of science fiction and the strange, science-obsessed politics of his Canadian grandfather. When that didnt work, hecalled his mother collect. [257], In 2015, Musk announced a design competition for students and others to build Hyperloop pods, to operate on a SpaceX-sponsored mile-long track, for a 20152017 Hyperloop pod competition. 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Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and briefly attended at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. [331][332] In 2015, Musk was a cosignatory, along with Stephen Hawking and hundreds of others, of the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence, which called for the ban of autonomous weapons. WebElon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. [287], In 2003, Musk said his favorite plane he owned was an L-39 Albatros. At its peak, there were more than 500,000 card-carrying, dues-paying members in the United States and Canada. Musk, Gates and the new rich might be poor in comparison to Rothchild and Rockefeller? [227], Musk's handling of employeeswhom he communicates with directly through mass emailshas been characterized as "carrot and stick", rewarding those "who offer constructive criticism" while also being known to impulsively threaten, swear at, and fire his employees. I dont want to seem like a Johnny-come-lately or that Imchasing a fad or just being opportunistic. [313] Musk does not receive a salary from Tesla; he agreed with the board in 2018 to a compensation plan that ties his personal earnings to Tesla's valuation and revenue. [208] In October 2022, Musk reversed again, offering to purchase Twitter at $54.20 per share. [360][361], Musk opposes a "billionaire's tax",[362] and has argued on Twitter with more left-leaning Democratic politicians such as Bernie Sanders,[363][364] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,[365] and Elizabeth Warren. [410] Notably, Tesla generates some of its revenue from its sales of carbon credits granted to the company, by both the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Chinese national carbon trading scheme. [497] Musk was selected as Time's "Person of the Year" for 2021. The uncle had gone to Minnesota, meaning Musk hadnowhere to stay. He can sweep you off your feet, Justinesaid.During their university years, the two youngsters were off and on, with Musk having to work hardto keep the relationship going. He wasnt just sniffing out trends, and he wasnt consumed by the idea of getting rich. After one economics exam, Musk, Farooq, and some other students inclass came back to the dorms and began comparing notes to try to ascertain how well they did on thetest. We know plenty about Elon Musk, the South African-born erstwhile teen mega-nerd, PayPal co-founder and Tesla boss turned tunneller, space coloniser and battery tycoon. In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Musk for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. [63] Musk then returned as CEO of the merged company. [415][416] Wired magazine speculated that Musk's opposition to short-selling stems from how short sellers have an incentive to find and promote unfavorable information about his companies. [443][444] In 2012, the couple divorced, before remarrying the following year. In one interview he declares, I think []. 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[296] Musk equated the reporting to doxxing. [4] His maternal grandfather moved from Canada to South Africa around 1950.[5]. He captivated me in that way.With her angular features and blond hair, Christie fit Musks type, and the two stayed in touchduring Musks time in Canada. What she fell for instead was a relentless, ambitious geek. He also founded Paypal, which he sold in 2002. Like Muskism, technocracy took its inspiration from science fiction and rested on the conviction that technology and engineering can solve all political, social and economic problems. [33], Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989 and lived with a second cousin in Saskatchewan for a year,[34] working odd jobs at a farm and lumber mill. 3 min read. [283] In a 60 Minutes interview, Musk said of the incident: "I do not smoke pot. Musk speaks of his early business experience during a 2014 commencement speech at USC, SEC and shareholder lawsuits regarding tweets, Tham Luang cave rescue and defamation case. Then, you have a shovel and you take the sand and goop and otherresidue, which is still steaming hot, and you have to shovel it through the same hole you came through.There is no escape. [203] Exactly a month after announcing the takeover, Musk stated that the deal was "on hold" following a report that 5% of Twitter's daily active users were spam accounts,[204] causing Twitter shares to drop more than 10percent. The New York Times wrote that Musk "expresses views that don't fit neatly into [the American] binary, left-right political framework". [157][158], Tesla acquired SolarCity for over $2 billion in 2016 and merged it with its battery unit to create Tesla Energy. [417] In early 2021, he encouraged the GameStop short squeeze. "[469], Though Musk's ventures were influential within their own industries in the 2000s, Musk only became a public figure in the early 2010s. [440] In an October 2022 interview with FT.com, Musk blamed the estrangement of his daughter on what the Financial Times characterized as "the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists. However, as of March 2020, she was living with Elon Musk, in "one of the multiple Los Angeles properties owned by her boyfriend," according to Rolling Stone. [35] In 1990, he entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. I could build something to suittheir needs like a tricked-out gaming machine or a simple word processor that cost less than whatthey could get in a store, Musk said. [150] In 2020, a judge prevented a lawsuit from proceeding that claimed a tweet by Musk regarding Tesla stock price ("too high imo") violated the agreement. Musks clear, concise writing is the work of alogician, moving from one point to the next with precision. During the week,Musk and Ressi would study, but as the weekend approached, Ressi, in particular, would transformthe house into a nightclub. [207] On July 12, 2022, Twitter formally sued Musk in the Chancery Court of Delaware for breaching a legally binding agreement to purchase Twitter. community", "Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots", "Why Elon Musk's Ambition Is an Antidote to Climate-Pessimism", "Elon Musk says Biden administration called a carbon tax 'too politically difficult', "Elon Musk says he may vote for Trump, despite climate crisis", "Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick are joining Donald Trump's strategic and policy forum", "Elon Musk has cut ties with Trump over his Paris decision", "Elon Musk's Plan: Get Humans to Mars, and Beyond", "The Water on Mars Vanished. [199][200], Tesla's stock market value sank by over $100billion the next day in reaction to the deal, causing Musk to lose around $30billion of his net worth. [210], Immediately after the acquisition, Musk fired top Twitter executives like CEO Parag Agrawal,[210][211] whom he replaced. [148] The SEC reacted to Musk's tweet by filing in court, asking the court to hold him in contempt for violating the terms of a settlement agreement with such a tweet; the accusation was disputed by Musk. He was also one of the first significant investors in, as well as chief executive officer of, the electric car manufacturer Tesla. A common story about Musk on social media is that his father owned part of an emerald mine, providing a bedrock of wealth that buoyed Elon up to his current level of success. No - Reading The What Really Went On At Project Veritas? [352], Musk voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. At the time, Saskatchewan was being governed by the Cooperative Commonwealth Party (CCF) led by Tommy Douglas. In December 1994, he had to come up with a business plan for one of his classesand ended up writing a paper titled The Importance of Being Solar. The document started with a bitof Musks wry sense of humor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. We Checked With His Schoolmates", "Multi-billionaire Elon Musk: 'I arrived in North America at 17 with $2,000', "Elon Musk's college pal: This is what 'differentiates Elon from the rest of humanity', "SpaceX, founded by Penn graduate Elon Musk, launches U.S. astronauts into space", "Does Elon Musk Have an Undergraduate Degree in Physics? As fortune wouldhave it, however, the clean-cut, posh-sounding Musk spotted Wilson on campus and went right towork trying to date her. [55] Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307million in cash in February 1999,[56][57] and Musk received $22million for his 7-percent share. Change). But what about all the other Musks? The university students were less inclined to laugh offor deride his opinionated takes on energy, space, and whatever else was captivating him at themoment. Errol Musk (born 1946), South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, and consultant; father of Elon Musk. [75] With $100million of his own money,[76] Musk founded SpaceX in May 2002 and became the company's CEO and Chief Engineer. TN Editor. It probably sounded like super-crazy talk.Musks insistence on explaining the early origins of his passion for electric cars, solar energy, androckets can come off as insecure. [302] By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150billion, mostly driven by his ownership of around 20% of Tesla stock. It is still hard to discern whether this story is true and what conclusions can be drawn. [137][d] The lawsuit characterized the tweet as false, misleading, and damaging to investors, and sought to bar Musk from serving as CEO of publicly traded companies. TN has identified Elon Musk as a Technocrat on the basis of beliefs and actions. [38][39][40][41] Although Musk claims he earned the degrees in 1995, UPenn maintains it awarded them in 1997. Her family moved to South Africa in 1950, where Maye eventually married a South African man and where Elon was born. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 100 million couples with a 3rd child add 100 million new people to the planet even after the couple passes. Another day, another controversial tweet from the worlds richest person, Elon Musk. Upon landing in June 1988, Muskfound a pay phone and tried to use directory assistance to find his uncle. Learn how your comment data is processed. [122][123] A fifth vehicle, the Model Y crossover, was launched in 2020. [460], In July 2022, Insider published court documents revealing that Musk had had twins with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, in November 2021. [146] In February 2023, the jury found Musk and Tesla not liable. . They then took turns coldcalling these people to ask if they were available to have lunch. 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He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University. [366] He has stated that "hands up, don't shoot" (a rallying cry that arose after the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri) was based in "fiction", and has raised questions about the Black Lives Matter protests. [263] Since then, OpenAI has made significant advances in machine learning, producing neural networks such as GPT-3 (producing human-like text),[264] and DALL-E (generating digital images from natural language descriptions). [248], Vox said "the Musk Foundation is almost entertaining in its simplicity and yet is strikingly opaque", noting that its website was only 33 words in plain-text. Musk celebrated hiseighteenth birthday there, sharing a cake with the family hed just met and a few strangers from theneighborhood. ", "When Will Electric Cars Go Mainstream? [465][466] After the release of the Business Insider article, Tesla's stock fell by more than 6%,[467] decreasing Musk's net worth by $10billion. His writing the article was described as conflicting with his advocacy for free speech. Somebody had to stay sober during these parties, Musk said. [299][296], Musk made $175.8million when PayPal was sold to eBay in 2002. Musk stepped down as chairman of Tesla and paid a $20 million fine as part of a settlement agreement with the SEC. [8] His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys to Africa and Australia in a single-engine Bellanca airplane. Musk called a second cousin out of the blue from thebus station and hitched a ride to his house.Musk spent the next year working a series of odd jobs around Canada. The revolt of the engineers, as it was called, holds some interesting lessons for today. [194][195] However, on April 13, Musk made a $43billion offer to buy Twitter, launching a takeover bid to buy 100% of Twitter's stock at $54.20 per share. [126], Since its initial public offering in 2010,[127] Tesla stock has risen significantly; it became the most valuable carmaker in summer 2020,[128][129] and it entered the S&P 500 later that year. [10] Musk regretted his decision and has become estranged from his father. A second set of test satellites, and the first large deployment of a piece of the constellation, occurred in May 2019, when the first 60 operational satellites were launched. denotes failed missions, destroyed vehicles, and abandoned sites. Itseemed like one of the more unusual things I had ever heard.A deeper relationship during this stint in Canada arose between Musk and Justine Wilson, afellow student at Queens. I will abide by the results of this poll", "Elon Musk's extreme micromanagement has wasted time and money at Tesla, insiders say", "Read the emails Elon Musk sent Tesla employees about music on the job and following directions", "Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell", "Is the world's richest person the world's worst boss? [23] In 2018, Musk left the OpenAI board to avoid possible future conflicts with his role as CEO of Tesla as the latter company increasingly became involved in AI through Tesla Autopilot. Wrong username or password. We need a lot of people to become a multiplanet civilization. [209] The acquisition was officially completed on October 27. [329][330] He has warned of a "Terminator-like" AI apocalypse and suggested that the government should regulate its safe development. I wanted to be Sylvia and Ted,she said. Theyfashioned tables by laying plywood on top of used kegs and came up with other makeshift furnitureideas. Incidentally, the head of technocracy in Canada was the grandfather of Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX. In contrast to the devious ways of politics, the fumbling methods of finance and business. It May Be Sooner Than You Think", "What 'regulatory credits' are and why they're so important to Tesla", "In struggle to meet EU rule, automakers turn to Tesla for credits", "Fiat Chrysler to pay Tesla for CO2 emissions credits", "Volkswagen to buy CO2 credits from Tesla in China", "What Are Shorts and Why Does Elon Hate Them? )2 Outside of his studies, Elon would read the newspaper alongside Kimbal, andthe two of them would identify interesting people they would like to meet. Pointing to the latest research coming out of a lab in Silicon Valley, he wrote:The end result represents the first new means of storing significant amounts of electrical energysince the development of the battery and fuel cell. 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