10 things you don't know about the richest person in the world, Elon Musk.

CNBC estimated his wealth at $185 billion after his company's share price soared last year.
Elon Musk

 

Elon Musk Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, an electric car company, has become the richest person in the world, and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has previously claimed in this field.

CNBC estimated his wealth at $185 billion after his company's share price soared last year.

Here are some things you don't know about Musk:

1. Musk was born in South Africa on June 28, 1971 to Mayi, and Erol Musk also gave birth to Kimbor (brother) and Toska (sister).

2. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with a degree in economics and physics.

3. Two days after receiving his doctorate in applied physics and materials science, he just dropped out of Stanford University. His decision to pay off after Zip2, a company he founded after dropping out of school, was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.

4. The companies he created and co-created include Zip2, PayPal (X.com), and ?? Vanilla Foundation, SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company and Thud.

5. In 2018, he was included in Bloomberg's list of the 50 most influential names and 25th on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people.

7. He made guest appearances in the film Iron Man 2 and starred in an episode of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (Platonic Change) and The Simpsons.

8. He married three times and had five sons with his first wife, Justin Wilson (a twin and a set of triplets). All his children attended a school he opened in a luxury house in California, which he called Ad Astra.

9. Although Musk is the chief executive officer of Tesla founded by Martin Eberhard and Mark Tapenning, his annual salary is $1.

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 Musk was recently given a green card by China, which is a privilege enjoyed by a group of foreigners, Nobel laureates and former NBA stars.