1. Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971. Maye Musk, a model and dietician, and Errol Musk, an electromechanical engineer, were his parents.
2. Musk has a brother named Kimbal and a sister named Tosca, who are his younger siblings.
3. He has described his childhood as "terrible" and "nonstop horrible," both at home and at school. His father would sometimes reprimand him and his brother for hours, and he was regularly bullied at the all-boys high school he attended.
4. He taught himself to code and, at the age of 12, built a video game called Blastar. He sold the source code for the game to the magazine PC and Office Technology, for about $500. The game is currently available to play online.
5. At 17 years old, he moved to Canada and lived with relatives. There, he worked odd jobs and attended Queen's University. He later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1997 with degrees in economics and physics.
6. In 1995, Musk and his brother started their first company, Zip2, which provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. Compaq Computer paid more than $300 million for the company in 1999. Elon received $22 million from the sale.
7. With his first wife, Justine Wilson, he had six children. Their first kid died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of ten weeks. Their sons are all boys, two of whom are twins and three of whom are triplets.
8. Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Tony Stark in the 2008 film "Iron Man" was said to be based on Musk. In 2010, he made a cameo appearance in the film "Iron Man 2."
9.Zip2, PayPal (X.com), The Musk Foundation, SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and Thud are among the firms he has founded or co-founded.
10. On Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People in 2018, he was ranked 25th.
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