The same year, Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. He 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. He matriculated at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degree in Economics and Physics. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 17. Musk was born to a Canadian mother and White South African father, and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. With an estimated net worth of around US$265 billion as of May 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list. founder of The Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer at SpaceX angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.
Elon Reeve Musk FRS ( / ˈ iː l ɒ n/ born June 28, 1971) is an entrepreneur, investor, and business magnate.
