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In 1995, Musk moved to ______ and founded Zip2.
In 1995, Musk moved to ______ and founded Zip2.
California
In 2006, he helped create ______, a solar energy company.
In 2006, he helped create ______, a solar energy company.
SolarCity
He has an estimated net worth of around ______ as of December 23, 2022.
He has an estimated net worth of around ______ as of December 23, 2022.
$139 billion
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- Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.
- He attended the University of Pretoria, but transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and received a bachelor's degree in economics and physics.
- He moved to California in 1995 and founded Zip2, a city guide software company, with his brother Kimbal.
- In 1999, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion and Musk became its chairman and product architect.
- In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy company, and became its chairman and CEO in 2008.
- In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company.
- In 2018, the SEC sued Musk for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla.
- He stepped down as chairman of Tesla and paid a $20 million fine as part of a settlement agreement with the SEC.
Musk is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. He has an estimated net worth of around $139 billion as of December 23, 2022.
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