The paper went on to predict a rise insolar power technology based on materials improvements and the construction of large-scale solarplants. Also, they objected to personal names: one technocrat was introduced at a rally as 1x1809x56. Elon Musks youngest son is named X A-12. Mr. Musks grandfather, an adventurer, moved his family from Canada to South Africa in 1950, two years after the start of the apartheid regime. [48][30], In 1995, Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded Zip2. [227], Musk's handling of employeeswhom he communicates with directly through mass emailshas been characterized as "carrot and stick", rewarding those "who offer constructive criticism" while also being known to impulsively threaten, swear at, and fire his employees. [278] During the trial Musk apologized to Unsworth again for the tweet. Time for a quick climb up the Musk family tree. He also founded Paypal, which he sold in 2002. [432][433] While hosting Saturday Night Live in May 2021, Musk said that he has Asperger syndrome. But Elons grandfather has a particularly interesting Saskatchewan connection. It wouldnt have a big effect. [460], In July 2022, Insider published court documents revealing that Musk had had twins with Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, in November 2021. Its difficult to find former students who remember him being there at all.But he did make one very close friend named Adeo Ressi, who would go on to be a Silicon Valleyentrepreneur in his own right and is to this day as tight with Elon as anyone.Ressi is a lanky guy well over six feet tall and possesses an eccentric air. [421], Musk has promoted cryptocurrencies and supports them over traditional government-issued fiat currencies. [83] Later that year, SpaceX received a $1.6billion Commercial Resupply Services contract from NASA for 12 flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, replacing the Space Shuttle after its 2011 retirement. [410] Notably, Tesla generates some of its revenue from its sales of carbon credits granted to the company, by both the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Chinese national carbon trading scheme. His grandfather was head of the Technocracy, Inc. movement in Canada during the 1930s and 1940s. He can sweep you off your feet, Justinesaid.During their university years, the two youngsters were off and on, with Musk having to work hardto keep the relationship going. You cant blow him off. They never really dated, but Christie found Musk interesting enough tohave lengthy conversations with him on the phone. [327], Musk has been described as believing in longtermism, emphasizing the needs of future populations. Jill Lepore, a historian at Harvard University, suggests Musk was shaped by his adolescent love of science fiction and the strange, science-obsessed politics of his Canadian grandfather. [446] Musk then dated Amber Heard for several months in 2017;[447] he had reportedly been pursuing her since 2012. I really was thinking about this stuff in college, he said.It is not some invented story after the fact. [452][453] According to Musk and Grimes, his name was "X A-12"; however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet,[454][455] and was then changed to "X A-Xii". ", "Exploring the otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk", "How To Raise A Billionaire: An Interview With Elon Musk's Father, Errol Musk", "50 years of Elon Musk's huge wealth, from emeralds to SpaceX and Tesla", "2014: Rocket Man: The otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk", "Elon Musk's father has baby with step-daughter he has known since she was four", "Play the PC game Elon Musk wrote as a pre-teen", "Elon Musk Says 'Pedo Guy' Was a Common Insult in His Youth. [402][403] However, in December 2021, Musk revealed that he and his eligible children had received the vaccine. At the end of the week, it was just Musk and twoother men doing the work.As Musk made his way around Canada, his brother, sister, and mother were figuring out how toget there as well. The lackluster social scene did not live up toRessis expectations, and he talked Musk into renting a large house off campus. "[441], In 2008, Musk began dating English actress Talulah Riley. [310][311] In January 2023, Musk was recognised by Guinness World Records for experiencing the "largest loss of personal fortune in history" with regards to his financial losses since November 2021, which Guinness quoted a Forbes estimate of $182 billion. [69][70] In 2017, more than 15 years later, Musk purchased the X.com domain from PayPal for its sentimental value. He vowed to pursue projects in all three. Metaverse, the term, comes from a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, but the idea is much older. Elon had never met Christie before,but he went right up to her and led her to a couch. We are the kinds of people that can be by ourselves at a party and notfeel awkward, Farooq said. Because while Elon revels in the success of his recent rocket launch, and a car-based publicity stunt that made Richard Branson look like Derek Trotter, little brother Kimbal is now making news, too. 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[26] At age twelve, he sold his BASIC-based game Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500. [303] The deal stipulated that Musk only receives the compensation if Tesla reaches certain market values. [157][158], Tesla acquired SolarCity for over $2 billion in 2016 and merged it with its battery unit to create Tesla Energy. [424] Musk's social media praising of Bitcoin and Dogecoin was credited for increasing their prices. [302] By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150billion, mostly driven by his ownership of around 20% of Tesla stock. Traditional economics, obsessed with arbitrary pricing mechanisms rather than rational production, was nothing more than the pathology of debt. Musk retaliated by pulling his desk down, painting it black, and studying. Guests included Jeff Bezos (net worth: $197 billion), who after the party flew back to his own yacht, not to be confused with the superyacht he is building at a cost of more than $500 million. ', "Which jets do Jeff Bezos and other tech billionaires own? [333] Musk's AI stances have been called alarmist and sensationalist by critics such as computer scientist Yann LeCun and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg,[334][335] and led the think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation to award Musk its Annual Luddite Award in 2016. [360][361], Musk opposes a "billionaire's tax",[362] and has argued on Twitter with more left-leaning Democratic politicians such as Bernie Sanders,[363][364] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,[365] and Elizabeth Warren. [251], In 2013, Musk announced plans for a version of a vactraina vacuum tube trainand assigned a dozen engineers from SpaceX and Tesla to establish the conceptual foundations and create initial designs. [205] Although he initially affirmed his commitment to the acquisition,[206] he sent notification of his termination of the deal in July; Twitter's Board of Directors responded that they were committed to holding him to the transaction. He accused the article from Business Insider of being a "politically motivated hit piece". [266] In March 2019, Musk was later one of the 187 people who received various honors conferred by the King of Thailand for involvement in the rescue effort. [84] In 2012, the Dragon vehicle docked with the ISS, a first for a commercial spacecraft. [118] Tesla began delivery of its four-door ModelS sedan in 2012. No - Reading The What Really Went On At Project Veritas? They had twins in 2004, then triplets in 2006 (all five via IVF), before separating in 2008. [165][166] Neuralink aims to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence (AI) by creating devices that are embedded in the brain to facilitate its merging with machines. [144][145] In April 2022, the shareholder who sued Musk over the tweet, along with several Tesla shareholders, said that a federal judge had ruled that the tweet was false, although the ruling in question has not been unsealed. [426][427], Despite the Boring Company's involvement in building mass transit infrastructure, Musk has criticized public transport and promoted individualized transport (private vehicles). Elon had gone to Canada a year before his mother and in 1989, at the age of 17, he moved to Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and worked for a few weeks at a relatives family farm near Waldeck. Musk first married Riley, the British St Trinians star, in 2010, before separating in 2012, remarrying in 2013, and divorcing again in 2016, when the actor Amber Heard made a brief appearance in Musks romantic orbit. The deal's announcement resulted in a more than 10% drop in Tesla's stock price. As fortune wouldhave it, however, the clean-cut, posh-sounding Musk spotted Wilson on campus and went right towork trying to date her. [405], Musk said that the U.S. government should not provide subsidies to companies, but impose a carbon tax to discourage poor behavior. [261], In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company aiming to develop artificial general intelligence intended to be safe and beneficial to humanity. with any luck all of these shitheads will have an accident together and the paramedics will find their book of all of the simple inventions which exist and can set us all free from these psychopaths. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307 million and Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. Two years later, he matriculated at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. [461] Also in July 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk allegedly had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in 2021, leading to their divorce the following year. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria in 1971. [20] [21] [22] After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk chose to mostly live with his father. [358][359] He also leaned towards supporting Republican Ron DeSantis in the 2024 U.S. presidential election if DeSantis were a candidate. In December 1994, he had to come up with a business plan for one of his classesand ended up writing a paper titled The Importance of Being Solar. The document started with a bitof Musks wry sense of humor. The Pancake Day Clowns Of The Week - David Icke, The World That Was - Ickonic's Weekly Rewind. [485] He contributed interviews to the documentaries Racing Extinction (2015) and the Werner Herzog-directed Lo and Behold (2016). [266] Richard Stanton, leader of the international rescue diving team, urged Musk to facilitate the construction of the vehicle as a back-up, in case flooding worsened. [341], Musk has long promoted the colonization of Mars and argues that humanity should become a "multiplanetary species". Errol Musk (born 1946), South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, and consultant; father of Elon Musk. community", "Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots", "Why Elon Musk's Ambition Is an Antidote to Climate-Pessimism", "Elon Musk says Biden administration called a carbon tax 'too politically difficult', "Elon Musk says he may vote for Trump, despite climate crisis", "Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick are joining Donald Trump's strategic and policy forum", "Elon Musk has cut ties with Trump over his Paris decision", "Elon Musk's Plan: Get Humans to Mars, and Beyond", "The Water on Mars Vanished. [98][99][100], During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Musk sent Starlink terminals to Ukraine to provide Internet access and communication. [432] In 2020, he moved to Texas, saying that California had become "complacent" about its economic success. His current partner Grimes is from Vancouver. We need a lot of people to become a multiplanet civilization. It was a full-out,unlicensed speakeasy, Ressi said. [46][47] However, Musk decided to join the Internet boom, instead dropping out two days after being accepted and applied for a job at Netscape, to which he reportedly never received a response. Eric was known as a man with a big heart, and always there to help those who needed him. [331][332] In 2015, Musk was a cosignatory, along with Stephen Hawking and hundreds of others, of the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence, which called for the ban of autonomous weapons. After two days, he dropped out and with his brother Kimbal, co-founded the online city guide software company Zip2. I had a roommatefrom Hong Kong, and he was a really nice guy, Musk said. One of historys recurring themes is that technology sometimes outruns society, leaving politicians gasping to catch up with the consequences. His insistence on vertical integration causes his companies to move most production in-house. Musks son, named X A-12, follows the Technocrat dislike of personal names. [176], In 2017, Musk founded the Boring Company to construct tunnels and revealed plans for specialized, underground, high-occupancy vehicles that could travel up to 150 miles per hour (240km/h) and thus circumvent above-ground traffic in major cities. [384], In March 2020, Musk stated, "The coronavirus panic is dumb. If you stay inthere for more than thirty minutes, you get too hot and die. Thirty people started out at the beginningof the week. Thehardest job Musk took came after a visit to the unemployment office. [256] Subsequently, Vance has claimed that the original purpose of Musk's Hyperloop proposal was to thwart a high-speed rail project in California. Pointing to the latest research coming out of a lab in Silicon Valley, he wrote:The end result represents the first new means of storing significant amounts of electrical energysince the development of the battery and fuel cell. In the forty-four-page document, Musk is plainlyjubilant over the idea of a new form of energy storage that would suit his future pursuits with cars,planes, and rockets. [378][379][380][381], Musk was criticized for his public comments and conduct related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Musk, 51, made his statement on Sunday in a reply to a tweet about Adams advising white people to get the f*ck away from Black people, He founded Zip2 in 1998 with his brother Elon Musk and later sold it to Compaq for $307 million. He bought acountrywide bus ticket that let him hop on and off as he pleased for one hundred dollars, and opted tohead to Saskatchewan, the former home of his grandfather. [10] Musk regretted his decision and has become estranged from his father. And a third paper dwelled onanother of Musks favorite topicsultracapacitors. By Raisa Bruner. [74] In October of the same year, he traveled to Moscow with Jim Cantrell and Adeo Ressi to buy refurbished intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could send the greenhouse payloads into space. (To be clear, Elon Musk was a child of apartheid, not an author of it. [393] In December 2022, Musk called for prosecution of former NIAID director Anthony Fauci. Notable beneficiaries include the Wikimedia Foundation, his alma mater the University of Pennsylvania, and his brother Kimbal's Big Green. [449][450] Musk and Heard both denied the affair. [343][344] He envisioned establishing a direct democracy on Mars, with a system in which more votes would be required to create laws than remove them. [61], In 2000, X.com merged with online bank Confinity to avoid competition,[53][61][62] as Confinity's money-transfer service PayPal was more popular than X.com's service. [435] In 2002, their first child died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 10 weeks. 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