Who is Elon Musk?
Elon Reeve Musk is a billionaire programmer, physicist, and businessman who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971. He studied at the University of Pretoria, Stanford University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to being South African, he has Canadian nationality since 1989 and American in 2002.
To his credit he owns global companies such as Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX and Solar City, since 2021 he is considered the richest man in the world. The sum of his fortune amounts to 138 billion considered in January 2023, this contracted from 320 billion dollars with the volatility of Tesla shares.
Musk’s height
The eccentric billionaire stands at 1.85m, though he appears to be much taller to those who know him.
The curious facts of the tycoon
A father with many children. The tycoon has seven children, from his first marriage he had five, of which three are triplets and the others are twins. With his current partner, singer Grimes, he has two more: X AE A-XII Musk and Exa Dark Sideræl.
Spiropapa for the lord. On a visit to Brownsville, Texas during Charro Day, he was seen eating a stick of spiropapas. The border town has a strong presence of Mexicans, so seeing them eat these delicacies from the park surprised many.
Dreams from another world. He wants humans to become an “interplanetary species”, so his wish is to establish the first colony on Mars.
cyber-troublemaker. Now that he owns Twitter, through that social network he had already challenged the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to a physical fight. It is known that the Moscow leader is military-trained and in great physical condition.
Next destination: space. In late 2021, it sent four space tourists on a launch that took place at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This project wants to promote space tourism for recreational purposes and not just exploration as NASA does in the United States.
I like celebrities. Although his first relationships were with women he met in college or more casually, his two most recent relationships were with actress Amber Heard and singer Grimes.
Will he be a compadre of Samuel Garcia? The Novoleon president Samuel García and his wife Mariana Rodríguez announced that their second child, if he is a boy, will be called Samuel Elon. Although the man from Monterrey said it jokingly, the level of commitment he maintains with Musk’s investments could make him call his offspring that way.