https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio About his daily life en-us 2020-04-21 05:16:38 UTC 2026-03-16 12:19:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f680.png bryan_jap https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519230167 Elon (Reeve) Musk is an engineer, designer,  entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is a citizen from South Africa, and also America (where he has lived most of the time), and Canada. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX, co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. As of April 2020, he has a net worth of $38.4 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 23rd richest person in the world. He is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.]]> 2020-04-21 05:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519230167 bryan_jap https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519231488 Musk was born on June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa. As a child, Musk was lost in his daydreams about inventions that his parents and doctors ordered a test to check his hearing. When his parents were at the time that they're about to divorce, when he was 10, Musk developed an interest in computing. He taught himself how to program, and when he was 12, he sold his first software, a game he created called Blastar. In grade school, Musk was short, an introvert and bookish. He was bullied until he was 15 and went through a growth spurt and learned how to defend himself with karate and wrestling.]]> 2020-04-21 05:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519231488 bryan_jap https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519234936 Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, is a Canadian model and one of the oldest woman to star in a Covergirl campaign. When Musk was growing up, she worked five jobs at one time to support her family. Musk’s father, Errol Musk, is a wealthy South African engineer. Musk spent his early childhood with his brother, Kimbal and sister, Tosca in South Africa. His parents divorced when he was 10.]]> 2020-04-21 05:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519234936 bryan_jap https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519235941 Elon Musk, who lives in LA can spend time with both when he goes to his office at SpaceX. The billionaire founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, spends up to 100 hours a week on both companies while thinking on how to transport humans to mars and chowing down lunch meals within 5 minutes, before getting back to his work. Musk is also a family man who spends up to four days each week with his five children. ]]> 2020-04-21 05:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519235941 bryan_jap https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519237742 Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles and the Dragon spacecraft. In 2002 with the intention of building a spacecraft for commercial space travel. By 2008, SpaceX was well established, and NASA awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the International Space Station. In December 2015, a Falcon 9 accomplished a propulsive vertical landing.]]> 2020-04-21 05:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bryan_jap/EMuskBio/wish/519237742