Elon Musk is an entrepreneur, and business magnate.
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Elon Musk briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 17 to avoid conscription.
Elon Musk moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but decided instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal.
The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.
The same year, Elon Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
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List Of Boards Elon Musk Serves On
Elon Musk is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.
Elon Musk leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
As the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon leads all product design, engineering and global manufacturing of the company’s electric vehicles, battery products and solar energy products.
Elon Musk is also joining Twitter’s board of directors, and the company has limited him to amassing no more than 14.9% of its shares.
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