Elon Musk

Elon Musk FRS
Musk in 2023
Commissioner of the Department of Government Efficiency
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 January 2025
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Position established
Business
Title	Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc. Owner, CTO and executive chairman of X (formerly Twitter) President of the Musk Foundation Founder of The Boring Company, X Corp., and xAI Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal)
Personal details
Born	Elon Reeve Musk (1971-06-28) June 28, 1971 (age 53) Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Citizenship	South Africa Canada United States (from 2002)
Spouse(s)	Justine Wilson ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2008)​ Talulah Riley ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2012)​ ​ ​ (m. 2013; div. 2016)​
Domestic partner	Grimes (2018–2021)
Relations	Kimbal Musk (brother) Tosca Musk (sister) Lyndon Rive (cousin)
Children	12
Parents	Errol Musk Maye Musk
Education	University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
Awards	Full list
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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian-American businessman. He moved to Canada and later became a U.S. citizen. Since January 2025, he is a Commissioner of the Department of Government Efficiency of the second Trump cabinet.^[1] He became rich through several technology projects, including an online finance company which merged with PayPal in the year 2000.^[2] Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's real-time billionaires list.^[3][4] In 2021, he was Time Person of the Year.^[5]

Elon is the current CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., a company that makes electric vehicles. He is also the CEO & CTO of SpaceX, an aerospace company. In 2022, he became the owner of the social media site Twitter which he later gave a new name known as X after buying it for USD $44 billion.^[6]

In November 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said that Musk would become a leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)^[7] alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, but Ramaswamy stepped down before the Department was created.^[8]

1. ↑ "Elon Musk's starring role in Donald Trump's government confirmed by inauguration proceedings - and pledge to go to Mars". Sky News. January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
2. ↑ "Elon Musk's 5 Best Investments". Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
3. ↑ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
4. ↑ "Real Time Billionaires". Forbes. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
5. ↑ Flynn, Kerry (December 13, 2021). "Time Person of the Year: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, named most influential of 2021 | CNN Business". CNN. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
6. ↑ Feiner, Lauren (April 25, 2022). "Twitter accepts Elon Musk's buyout deal". CNBC. Archived from the original on April 26, 2022. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
7. ↑ "Why is Elon Musk becoming Donald Trump's efficiency adviser?". www.bbc.com. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
8. ↑ "Ramaswamy won't serve on Trump's government efficiency commission as he mulls run for Ohio governor". Associated Press. January 20, 2025. Retrieved January 22, 2025.