Elon Musk

<html> <head> <title>Elon Musk</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/021/000245283/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Elon Musk<img src="elon-musk-1-sized.jpg" height=326 width=245 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Elon Musk">Born: <a href="/lists/697/000106379/" class=proflink>28-Jun</a>-<a href="/lists/970/000105655/" class=proflink>1971</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/389/000101086/" class=proflink>Pretoria, South Africa</a> Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Business, EngineerNationality: United States Executive summary: CEO of SpaceX and Tesla MotorsElon Musk is a computer programmer, designer of rockets and electric cars, and entrepreneur who founded or co-founded PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors. In his late teens he came to Canada to avoid the draft in his native South Africa, and in his 20s he earned degrees in physics and economics. In 1995 he quit a doctorate program at Stanford to market Zip2, a software system that became a widely-used publishing platform for newspapers' on-line editions. Four years later he sold his interest in Zip2 for more than $300M, and used the proceeds to found X.com, a system for processing payments via email. In 2000 X.com acquired its cross-town rival in Palo Alto, <a href="/people/030/000124655/">Peter Thiel</a> and <a href="/people/031/000124656/">Max Levchin</a>'s Confinity, and in 2001 X.com was renamed PayPal. In 2002 PayPal was sold to eBay for $1.5B, and as Musk was majority owner before the sale, he presumably walked away with $700M or so. In 2002 he established Space Exploration Technologies (also called SpaceX), a company that offers transport services into outer space, and has successfully launched rockets of Musk's design, placed a satellite into Earth orbit, and delivered a cargo payload the the International Space Station. In 2004 he provided the funding to establish Tesla Motors, manufacturer of all-electric vehicles which have sold briskly among those who can afford the rather steep price tag. For fun he owns and flies a unarmed test version of an Aero L-39 Albatros military jet fighter, and he has said that he intends to retire on Mars. <a href="/people/946/000025871/">Jon Favreau</a>, director of the original Iron Man movie, has said that Musk was his inspiration for the movie's characterization of eccentric inventor and billionaire Tony Stark.Father: Errol Musk Mother: Maye Haldeman (dietitian) Brother: Kimbal Musk (restaurateur) Sister: Tosca Musk (film producer) Wife: Jennifer Wilson ("Justine", novelist, b. 1972, div., five children) Girlfriend: Talulah Riley (actress, b. 26-Sep-1985, fiancée 2010)     High School: Pretoria Boys High School, Pretoria, South Africa (1988)     University: <a href="/edu/514/000111181/">Queen's University Kingston (attended)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/517/000068313/">BA Economics, University of Pennsylvania</a>     University: <a href="/edu/517/000068313/">BS Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1995)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/468/000068264/">Stanford University (briefly attended, 1995)</a>     <a href="/company/077/000250324/">Tesla Motors</a> CEO (2003-)     <a href="/company/981/000355913/">SpaceX</a> Founder and CEO (2002-)     <a href="/company/028/000124653/">PayPal</a> CEO (2000)     X.com Founder and CEO (1999-2001)     Zip2 Corp. Founder, CEO, and CTO (1995-99)     Member of the Board of Everdream Software     Member of the Board of <a href="/company/028/000124653/">PayPal</a> (2000-02)     Member of the Board of SolarCity Corp.     Member of the Board of Surrey Satellite Technology     Member of the Board of <a href="/company/077/000250324/">Tesla Motors</a> (as Chairman, 2004-)     Member of the Board of X.com (as Chairman, 1999-2000)     Member of the Board of Zip2 Corp. (as Chairman, 1995-99)     <a href="/org/175/000167671/">Bush-Cheney '04</a>     <a href="/org/674/000171161/">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee</a>     <a href="/org/918/000055753/">Democratic National Committee</a>     <a href="/org/291/000173769/">Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee</a>     <a href="/org/482/000206861/">Forward Together PAC</a>     <a href="/org/874/000356803/">Friends for Harry Reid</a>     <a href="/org/305/000368198/">FWD.us</a> (withdrew support)     <a href="/org/570/000167069/">Hillary Clinton for President</a>     <a href="/org/805/000167304/">John Kerry for President</a>     Mars Society     <a href="/org/877/000171364/">National Republican Congressional Committee</a>     <a href="/org/684/000167183/">Obama for America</a>     <a href="/org/970/000354905/">Obama Victory Fund 2012</a>     <a href="/org/279/000134874/">Planetary Society</a> Board of Directors     <a href="/org/902/000215257/">Senate Victory Fund PAC</a>     The Space Foundation Board of Directors     <a href="/event/582/000051429/">Naturalized US Citizen</a>     <a href="/event/104/000369991/">Visited Burning Man</a>     <a href="/lists/846/000082600/">Canadian Ancestry</a> Maternal     <a href="/lists/902/000108578/">South African Ancestry</a> Paternal     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/009/000404791/">Why Him? (17-Dec-2016)</a>     <a href="/films/548/000404333/">Before the Flood (9-Sep-2016)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/354/000402145/">Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (23-Jan-2016)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/501/000384346/">Pump (12-Sep-2014)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/846/000371730/">Machete Kills (19-Sep-2013)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/438/000276607/">Revenge of the Electric Car (22-Apr-2011)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/336/000223664/">Iron Man 2 (26-Apr-2010)</a> · Himself <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=245283"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=245283">Elon Musk</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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