Elon musk
April 23, 2025 at 10:26:20 AM
Elon Musk
Portrait of Elon Musk, a white, middle-age man with short, dark hair, wearing a black suit
Musk in 2022
Senior Advisor to the President
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
Serving with Massad Boulos, Boris Epshteyn
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byTom Perez
Personal details
BornElon Reeve Musk
June 28, 1971 (age 53)
Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship
South Africa
Canada
United States (from 2002)
Political partyIndependent
Spouses
Justine Wilson
(m. 2000; div. 2008)
Talulah Riley
(m. 2010; div. 2012)
(m. 2013; div. 2016)
Domestic partnerGrimes (2018–2021)
Childrenat least 14, including Vivian Wilson[1]
Parents
Errol Musk (father)
Maye Musk (mother)
RelativesMusk family
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
Occupation
Co-Founder and CEO of xAI
CEO and product architect of Tesla
Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX
Founder of the Boring Company, X Corp., and
Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal)
President of the Musk Foundation
De facto leader of the Department of Government Efficiency
AwardsFull list
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Elon Musk speaking about India and his meeting with its prime minister, Narendra Modi
Recorded June 20, 2023
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Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a right-wing businessman known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter). Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2021; as of March 2025, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$345 billion. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2021.
Born to a wealthy family in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk emigrated in 1989 to Canada. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. before moving to California to pursue business ventures. In 1995, Musk co-founded the software company Zip2. Following its sale in 1999, he co-founded X.com, an online payment company that later merged to form PayPal, which was acquired by eBay in 2002. That year, Musk also became a U.S. citizen.
In 2002, Musk founded the space technology company SpaceX, becoming its CEO and chief engineer; the company has since led innovations in reusable rockets and commercial spaceflight. Musk joined the automaker Tesla as an early investor