Elon Musk is known as a South African entrepreneur and tech leader. He is most famous for founding Tesla Motors and SpaceX.

Fame

Background

Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He acquired his Canadian citizenship in 1989. He felt it was simpler to get American citizenship by means of that way. In 2002, he accomplished his objective of turning into a U.S. native.

Musk was the child of a Canadian mother and a South African father. Musk went through his initial youth with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca in South Africa. At 10, around the time his folks separated, the withdrawn Elon built up an enthusiasm for PCs and digital devices. He showed himself how to program, and when he was 12 he made his first programming software of a game he made called Blastar.

Career

In 1999, Musk helped to establish X.com, an online budgetary administrations and installments organization. This prompted the production of PayPal as today the online payment system is known, and in October 2002, PayPal was procured by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock. Prior to the deal, Musk claimed 11 percent of PayPal stock.

After the success of his high tech car company, Tesla Motors, Musk established his third organization, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with the aim of creating a shuttle for business space travel. By 2008, SpaceX was ready to launch and NASA granted the organization the agreement to deal with freight transport for the International Space Station with designs for space traveler transport later on in a move to supplant NASA's own space transport missions.

Personal Life

Relationships

In 2016, Musk started an on and off romantic association with the American actress Amber Heard. Clashing schedules put the lights off their relationship a year later but it might have saved Musk a lot of headache by leaving the crazy actress.

Elon Musk is in a current relationship with Canadian musician, Grimes. The Vancouver born artist whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher was the most recent expansion to Elon Musk dating menu. Grimes is a songwriter, record producer, and visual artist. The team appeared as a hot item at the Met Gala on May 7, 2018. Fans were excited with seeing the unique pairing because on one hand you had a tech entrepreneur who is also a futuristic thinker. On the other hand, you had an eccentric pop singer.