Forbes magazine estimates Musk’s net worth at $266 billion (Getty)
Years ago and the name of the American billionaire Elon Musk Brilliant in the American and global business world, as an innovative pioneer investor and the richest man in the world, until he established his undisputed position by causing great controversy, as he completed, on Monday, the acquisition of the social network “Twitter”.
Musk bought Twitter for $44 billionHe used $21 billion of his personal fortune to buy this “public square,” while Forbes magazine estimates his current net worth at $266 billion.
He had bought a 9% stake in Twitter earlier in April, and then offered to buy the entire company, declaring that his goal was to “preserve freedom of expression.” The publicly traded company announced in a statement that it would become a private company owned by Musk, who negotiated At a purchase price of $54.2 per share, his Twitter account is followed by 84 million users.
What do you know about the beginnings of Elon Musk and his success path?
Musk began his upward path from a technological visionary to becoming a “king of social media”, according to what Agence France-Presse titled in a profile allocated to Musk after his purchase of Twitter, saying that “sometimes it seems like this is a world Elon Musk in which we live.”
The man revolutionized the auto industry, sent his rocket into space, made the world’s largest fortune, and created fountains of moral outrage and celebrity gossip all along.
Musk, 50, has become the richest person in the world, snatching the title from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, after the rapid rise of the electric car company Tesla, which he founded in 2003.
His Twitter takeover has prompted a spate of ads and counter-advertisements, and his new appearance as a social media pioneer is fueling controversy over his political views, working methods and personality. He is an impulsive libertarian and promotes himself as a champion of free speech. Some might call him a right-wing, while his critics accuse him of being authoritarian and authoritarian.
And all this came in a month in which Musk also made headlines with the opening of a giant “Tesla” factory in Texas, after the company left California in the wake of a dispute over his efforts to defy the state’s closure of his factory to stop the spread of the “Covid-19” epidemic.
And there’s another thing on this front. His space transportation company, SpaceX, is now breaking another frontier as a partner in a three-way project that sent the first entirely private mission to the International Space Station.
But Musk also makes less satisfactory news. Tesla has faced a series of lawsuits relating to discrimination against black workers, as well as sexual harassment.
Mask..a personal life with its own rules
In parallel with the flow of controversial news in the business world, Musk’s penchant for living by his rules in his private life also keeps the world in sight.
Recently, it turned out that Musk had a second child with his music partner, Grimes, and the baby girl was named “Exa Dark Sideræl Musk”, although the parents will often call her “Y”.
Musk, who holds American, Canadian and South African nationalities, has been married and divorced 3 times, one of them from Canadian writer Justine Wilson, and twice from actress Talulah Riley. He has 7 children, and an eighth child died in infancy.
He is expected to appear personally or through his lawyer in the ongoing trial between Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, who had previously dated Musk.
Mask.. from technology and the first millions to space
In one way or another, Musk has become the owner of one of the most popular personalities in the world today. How did he get to where he is today?
Born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971, to an engineer father and a Canadian-born mother, Musk left South Africa in his late teens to attend Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, earning a bachelor’s degree in physics and business.
After graduating from the prestigious Ivy League, Musk gave up studies at Stanford University.
Instead of studying, he founded Zip2, a company dedicated to making online publishing software for the media industry, and raised his first millions in his accounts before the age of thirty when he sold it to the American computer maker Compaq for more than $300 million in 1999.
Musk’s next company was X.com, eventually merging with PayPal, the online payments company that online auction giant eBay bought for $1.5 billion in 2002.
After leaving PayPal, Musk embarked on a series of more ambitious projects than ever before.
Soon, Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, and is now its CEO and head of the technology department, and then became president of Tesla in 2004.
After some early collisions and near misses, SpaceX has mastered the art of propellants to land on solid ground and ocean platforms, making them reusable, and late last year it sent 4 space tourists, the first-ever orbital mission without professional astronauts on board. .
Musk’s The Boring Company, a tunnel and infrastructure company, is leading the hyperloop rail system that transports people at supersonic speeds. Musk has said he wants to make humans “sort of an interplanetary” by creating a colony for people who live on Mars.
To that end, SpaceX is developing a prototype of its Starship rocket that envisions carrying a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars, and beyond, with Musk saying he feels “confident” to conduct an orbital test this year.