Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied at Queen’s University and the University of Pennsylvania before building companies in software, payments, space and electric vehicles.
Musk co-founded PayPal, leads Tesla and founded SpaceX. He has also been involved with Neuralink and The Boring Company and acquired the platform now known as X.
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