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Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and former public official who is the CEO and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and became the only trillionaire in terms of US dollars in June 2026; as of August 8, 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$823 billion.
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Forbes Centroamérica: Elon Musk alcanza otra vez 900,000 mdd, mientras multimillonarios y Harvard revelan las participaciones de SpaceX
Mashable: Elon Musk says Tesla's Cybercab has started production
Yahoo: ¿Cuántas acciones de SpaceX realmente posee Elon Musk y cuándo puede vender?
Yahoo Finance: Elon Musk’s 5-Word Statement Should Have Every Micron Investor Paying Attention
NPR: Elon Musk’s Starbase wants to expand in south Texas
fortune.com: Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will work in space
Negocios.com: Elon Musk va en serio con Marte: quiere levantar una ciudad en siete años
24/7 Wall St.: Elon Musk To Invest $2.8 Billion In What He Once Called “The Dumbest Experiment In History”
Forbes España: El mes en que Elon Musk perdió 363.000 millones y aun así sigue siendo el más rico del mundo
Yahoo Finance: Elon Musk and Jensen Huang’s New Partnership Could Create the Next Era of Technology
Yahoo Finance: Elon Musk Can't Sell SpaceX Stock Until June 2027 -- But 6 Billion More Shares Could Flood the Market Before Then
Motor16: Salario de Elon Musk 2025: 158.000 millones, la paga que un empleado de Tesla tardaría 2,5 millones de años en igualar
TFLcar: Ask Nathan: Will Mini Build a Truck and Disliking Tesla or Elon Musk?
Benzinga España: Elon Musk quiere viajes lunares para todos: Starship llevaría 100 toneladas
The Objective: Europa dependerá de Elon Musk para la defensa de sus fronteras hasta 2030
Microsiervos: Las predicciones de Elon Musk, el moderno «Casandra», para el futuro cercano. Tú aguanta 10 años, que va a ser mejor que jubiliarse
Yahoo Finance: Elon Musk's Tesla Is Ending Sweden's Longest Strike by Buying Out Every Worker Still on It
Cadena SER: Uno de "esos paraísos no regulados" que se ha convertido en la obsesión del "descubridor" Elon Musk
Espinof: He visto el plagio de 'La Odisea' hecho con IA que está en Prime Video, y no es necesario que Elon Musk haga su versión. Esta ya es lo suficientemente horrorosa
Yahoo Finance: CEO Elon Musk Just Announced Great News for SpaceX Stock Investors
Vandal: La NASA lo confirma: los restos de un cohete de Elon Musk se estrellaron contra la Luna y dejaron un colosal cráter
El Confidencial: El próximo coche de Elon Musk podrá volar, según fuentes de Tesla. Pero será inútil
“the social cues were not intuitive ... I would just tend to take things very literally ... but then that turned out to be wrong—[people were not] simply saying exactly what they mean, there”
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“s travels and exploits, and he has suggested that all of Haldeman”
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TradingView: NVDA Discloses $21B Stake In SpaceX — Elon Musk’s Rocket Firm Becomes Nvidia’s No. 2 Holding
Infobae: Por qué Elon Musk afirma que “el dinero no importará en 2036”
Democracy Now!: “No a los centros de datos tóxicos”: Justin Pearson habla sobre Elon Musk, la inteligencia artificial y su victoria en las primarias demócratas de Memphis para la Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU.
Investor's Business Daily: Elon Musk Reveals $900 Billion SpaceX Stake, Massive Voting Power
Bitfinanzas: ¡Se reveló cuántas acciones de SpaceX posee Elon Musk!
Fortune: Elon Musk’s $158 billion Tesla pay was 2.5 million times his workers’ salary last year
Benzinga España: Elon Musk cobró 2,5 millones de veces más que un empleado de Tesla
Industry Talks: Elon Musk, Tesla y SpaceX se aseguran la soberanía en chips con la mayor fábrica del mundo: Terafab
Yahoo: Cards Against Humanity wants to erect a monument to 'honor' Elon Musk
es.qz.com: La participación de SpaceX de Elon Musk vale $900 mil millones, según muestra un documento.
es.qz.com: La proporción de pago de Elon Musk en Tesla alcanzó 2.5 millones a 1 en 2025.
Híbridos y Eléctricos: Para Elon Musk, la conducción autónoma llegará a los camiones eléctricos dentro de un año porque “no hay suficientes camioneros”
24/7 Wall St.: Elon Musk Rumored to Unveil ‘Flying’ Car Soon as Tesla Stock Is Down 24% YTD
Inc.com: Elon Musk’s 2025 Payday Was Bigger Than That of All Other S&P 500 CEOs Combined
Yahoo: Elon Musk redobla su apuesta por la IA: mientras SpaceX rebota 39%, prepara una megafábrica de chips de US$ 16.800 millones
3DJuegos: Elon Musk quiere resolver el problema energético de la IA en el espacio. El precio a pagar es quedarnos sin poder ver las estrellas
PRIMETIMER: Elon Musk delivers three-word reaction after Abdul El-Sayed's sister's past tweet about "whole world" rising against "US empire" goes viral
AS: La gigafactoría que Elon Musk está montando en mitad del desierto de Texas: competirá con China y Europa por e
Tot Barcelona: Elon Musk alquila un Parador completo para ver el eclipse en Castilla y Le
tradingkey.com: Elon Musk posee una participación del 48,4 % en SpaceX valorada en más de 900.000 millones de dólares, pero algunas acciones dependen de un rendimiento 'extremadamente loco de bueno'
Lead Stories rated the claim “Elon Musk once said or wrote "I’m simply trying to do the greatest amount of good with the limited time I have on Earth".” No Reports.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “A real video shows Elon Musk walking with his family in Washington D.C..” Made With AI.
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DigitEye India rated the claim “A video purportedly shows Elon Musk walking the red carpet with a humanoid robot.” The claim is totally false. The video was generated using AI, and no such real-life incident occurred. While Tesla's Optimus robot appeared at the October 2025 TRON: Ares red carpet event, Elon Musk did not walk the red carpet with the robot as depicted in the viral 2026 video..
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Public attention spiked: 86,924 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 20,385, with 42 article edits. Editors noted: Restored revision 1359424539 by Staraction (talk): I don't understand - he is the only? Only saying he is the first implies there are more
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Public attention spiked: 86,924 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 21,064, with 42 article edits. Editors noted: Restored revision 1359424539 by Staraction (talk): I don't understand - he is the only? Only saying he is the first implies there are more
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Snopes rated the claim “On April 20, 2025, federal information technology staffer Dan Berulis discovered his car’s brake line had been cut a day after tech mogul and Trump adviser Elon Musk posted on X that Berulis had committed a crime by filing a whistleblower report alleging members of Musk’s Department of Government…” True.
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Public attention spiked: 194,434 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.5× the usual 20,385, with 41 article edits. Editors noted: should be written, not just a symbol
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Public attention spiked: 194,434 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.2× the usual 21,064, with 41 article edits. Editors noted: should be written, not just a symbol
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Keir Starmer said he will arrest Elon Musk and 336 million Americans for free speech on X” Didn't Say It.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Real photo shows Trump, Musk and Huang raising their fists in front of Chinese flag” Faux TV Image.
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Snopes rated the claim “An image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raising their fists in front of the Chinese Communist Party flag.” Fake.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Real photo shows Trump, Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink and Jensen Huang eating Panda Express take-out on Air Force One during their flight to China.” AI Image.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Elon Musk snubs South African President Cyril Ramaphosa” Altered video.
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DigitEye India rated the claim “Elon Musk is reportedly in talks to purchase Spirit Airlines.” The claim is false. No credible evidence supports any acquisition talks involving Elon Musk. There are no official statements, announcements or any personal comments by Elon Musk on such an acquisition of Spirit Airlines..
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Musk made a last-minute WEF debut in an interview with the organization's interim co-chair Larry Fink during the 2026 WEF.
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Claimed: “Zohran Mamdani's name appears on ballots twice as a form of cheating” — rated Misleading by AFP Fact Check.
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Snopes rated the claim “X owner Elon Musk fired 2,000 people at the company over a joke mocking late conservative commentator and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.” False.
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Awarded Time 100 (2025).
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When the special government employee's 130 day deadline expired
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Former vice president Kamala Harris said that she believed that not inviting Musk was a "big mistake
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Career landmark: Senior Advisor to the President of the United States (2025–2025).
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“s child, he had paid St. Clair $2.5 million and would continue paying her $500,000 per year. Later reporting from the Wall Street Journal indicated that $1 million of these payments to St. Clair were structured as a loan. Involvement with Jeffrey Epstein In 2014, Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell appeared together in a photograph taken at an Academy Awards after-party, which Musk later described as a”
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Musk contributed $19 million to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, hoping to influence the state's future redistricting efforts and its regulations governing car manufacturers and dealers
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In 2025, former vice president Kamala Harris said that she believed that not inviting Musk was a "big mistake." In September 2021, Musk criticized Biden as "not the friendliest administration." In December 2021, Musk publicly expressed opposition to the Build Back Better Act.
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Jacob Silverman, author of the 2025 book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, said that the tech industry represented by Musk, Thiel, Andreessen and other capitalists, actually flourished under Biden, but the tech leaders chose Trump for their common ground on cultural issues.
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Starting in January 2025, Musk's international political actions and comments came under increasing scrutiny and criticism, especially from the governments and leaders of France, Germany, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, particularly due to his position in the U.S. government from January to May 2025, as well as ownership of X.
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In 2025, Musk contributed $19 million to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, hoping to influence the state's future redistricting efforts and its regulations governing car manufacturers and dealers.
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“[Nel 2025] Cinque anni fa Elon Musk sembrava davvero un genio innovatore, eccentrico ma animato da intenti positivi. Oggi risulta essere un pazzo pericoloso con deliri di onnipotenza. [...] una persona totalmente tossica e socialmente disastrosa. (Paolo Attivissimo)”
Awarded Rusty Razor Award (2024).
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Started supporting international far-right political parties, activists, and causes, and has shared far-right misinformation and numerous conspiracy theories
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Musk never forgave not being invited
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Musk was the largest individual donor of the 2024 election.
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By the middle of 2024, Musk had become a vocal and financial supporter of Donald Trump.
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Musk commented, "seems odd that Tesla wasn't invited." Barra said in 2024 Musk never forgave not being invited.
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NASA awarded SpaceX an $843 million (equivalent to $865,000,000 in 2025) contract to build a spacecraft that NASA will use to deorbit the ISS at the end of its lifespan
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“a small amount once every other week or something like that”
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Musk said he shunned the World Economic Forum (WEF) because it was boring
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From June 2023 to January 2024, Musk hosted a bipartisan set of X Spaces with Republican and Democratic candidates, including Robert F.
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Supported Republican Ron DeSantis for the 2024 U
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Errol recounted that the deal he made was to receive "a portion of the emeralds produced at three small mines"
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Musk denied Ukraine's request to activate Starlink over Crimea to aid an attack against the Russian navy, citing fears of a nuclear response
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In 2023, Musk said he shunned the World Economic Forum (WEF) because it was boring.
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Awarded Order of Defence Merit (2022).
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Awarded Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2022).
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Neuralink announced that clinical trials would begin by the end of the year
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Acquired Twitter, a social networking service, and made significant changes, including rebranding it as X in 2023
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A federal probe was launched into possible animal welfare violations by Neuralink
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“doing his bit to help underpopulation”
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Musk gave over $50 million to Citizens for Sanity, a conservative political action committee
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In 2022, Musk gave over $50 million to Citizens for Sanity, a conservative political action committee.
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“Sono convinto che del denaro russo lo abbia aiutato a comprare Twitter. [...] Fra l'aprile e l'ottobre 2022 [quando ha acquistato Twitter] Musk ha smesso di criticare la Russia. Da allora non gli sfugge più una parola contraria su Putin. Gli ho chiesto pubblicamente se abbia ricevuto aiuti da Mosca, ma non ha mai risposto. Ha solo detto che non sono molto intelligente. (Garri Kasparov)”
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2022–2023).
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Biden signed an Executive Order targeting that half of cars sold in 2030 should be electric
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Won John Fritz Medal (2021).
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Awarded Time 100 (2021).
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Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (2021).
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Awarded Time Person of the Year (2021).
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“I find history fascinating. There's a lot of incredible things that have been done, good and bad, that they help you understand the nature of civilization and individuals.”
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“We need to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we're better able to understand the nature of the universe and understand the meaning of life.”
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The company released a video in which a macaque played the video game Pong via a Neuralink implant
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“Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century”
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Awarded Axel Springer Award (2020).
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From the early 2000s until late 2020, Musk resided in California, where both Tesla and SpaceX were founded.
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In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Musk endorsed candidate Andrew Yang and expressed support for Yang's proposed universal basic income, and endorsed Kanye West's 2020 presidential campaign.
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SpaceX launched its first crewed flight, the Demo-2, becoming the first private company to place astronauts into orbit and dock a crewed spacecraft with the ISS
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To be $10 billion (equivalent to $12,000,000,000 in 2025)
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Won Stephen Hawking Medal For Science Communication (2019).
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Awarded Time 100 (2018).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2018).
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Musk left the OpenAI board
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The first large constellation was deployed in May 2019
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“Citation choisie pour le 24 juin 2018.”
SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy; the inaugural mission carried Musk's personal Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload
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In Chicago and West Los Angeles, have been canceled
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The company began discussions with regulatory bodies and initiated construction of a 30-foot (9
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Musk founded the Boring Company to construct tunnels; he also revealed plans for specialized, underground, high-occupancy vehicles that could travel up to 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) and thus circumvent above-ground tr
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Musk purchased the domain X
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And the Boring Company, a tunneling company that he founded in 2017
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Career landmark: co-president (2016).
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Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup, with an investment of $100 million
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(equivalent to $2,700,000,000 in 2025) and merged it with its battery unit to create Tesla Energy
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Reported net worth: $11.5B (as of 2016).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (2015).
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SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of a Falcon 9 on a land platform
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SpaceX began development of the Starlink constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to provide satellite Internet access
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Musk co-founded OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence (AI) research, but later left; his growing discontent with the organization's direction and leadership in the AI boom in the 2020s led him to establish xAI, which
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Awarded Edison Awards (2014).
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Musk promoted the idea of SolarCity building an advanced production facility in Buffalo, New York, triple the size of the largest solar plant in the United States
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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (2012).
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The Dragon vehicle docked with the ISS, a first for a commercial spacecraft
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Awarded Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization (2011).
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“[Su Steve Bannon] È un ritardato allo stato puro.”
“I think the Internet is the super-set of all media. It is the be-all and the end-all of all media. One will see print, broadcast, arguably, radio, essentially all media folding into the Internet.”
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“La Ue dovrebbe essere abolita e la sovranità restituita ai singoli paesi, in modo che i governi possano rappresentare meglio i loro popoli.”
“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”
“Faremo [gli Stati Uniti d'America] colpi di stato ovunque vogliamo! Fatevene una ragione.”
“Arriverà il punto in cui non sarà più necessario alcun lavoro: puoi avere un lavoro se lo desideri, per soddisfazione personale. Ma l'intelligenza artificiale farà tutto. È che sia un bene sia un male, una delle sfide del futuro sarà come trovare un significato nella vita.”
“C'è così tanta empatia che di fatto ti suicidi ... credo nell'empatia, dovremmo occuparci degli altri, ma dovremmo avere un'empatia per la civiltà in generale, non commettere un suicidio di civiltà. [...] Qualcuno può usare l'empatia contro di te per controllare completamente il tuo stato [...] la debolezza fondamentale della civiltà occidentale è l'empatia.”
“[Su Steve Bannon] Ciccione, ubriacone, maiale: stavolta andrai in galera e ci resterai a lungo, devi pagare per una vita di crimini.”
“Col tempo si potrebbe terraformare Marte in modo che assomigli alla Terra [...] Perciò è un pianeta aggiustabile.”
“È ora di sganciare la vera bomba: @realDonaldTrump è nei file Epstein. È questo il vero motivo per cui non sono stati resi pubblici. Buona giornata, DJT!”
Awarded Living Legends of Aviation (2010).
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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Tesla stock has risen significantly; it became the most valuable carmaker in summer 2020, and it entered the S&P 500 later that year
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Awarded NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award (2009).
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Musk supported Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.
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And 2012, Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2008).
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Career landmark: chairperson (2008–2018).
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And the 2008 financial crisis, Eberhard was ousted from the firm
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And became its CEO and product architect in 2008; it has since become a leader in electric vehicles
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2002).
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Musk founded and became CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, a space technology company; the company has since led innovations in reusable rockets and commercial spaceflight
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Musk became involved with the nonprofit Mars Society and discussed funding plans to place a growth-chamber for plants on Mars
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From the University of Pennsylvania before moving to California to pursue business ventures
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Was accepted to a graduate program in materials science at Stanford University, but did not enroll
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Studied at The Wharton School, Bachelor of Arts (1992–1995).
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Musk co-founded Zip2, a web software company
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Studied at University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Science (1991–1995).
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The University of Pennsylvania did not award them until 1997 – a Bachelor of Arts in physics and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the university's Wharton School
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Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded Zip2, a web software company, with funding from a group of angel investors
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Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley: one at energy storage startup Pinnacle Research Institute, which investigated electrolytic supercapacitors for energy storage, and another at Palo Alto–based startup Rocket Sc
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Studied at Smith School of Business (1990–1992).
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Entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
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To Canada; he has Canadian citizenship since his mother was born there
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Studied at Pretoria Boys High School (1989).
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Musk sold his BASIC-based game Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500 (equivalent to $1,600 in 2025)
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Musk, aged around 9, chose to live with his father because he had an Encyclopædia Britannica set and a computer
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Born 1971-06-28.
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In Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital
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“, space.com Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth. 7 September 2018 e-mail to Guardian, possibly repeated later on a Joe Rogan podcast I don”
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“, CNBC (July 12, 2024) Let’s try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine October 3, 2022 poll on Twitter - the voting options were”
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s child, he had paid St. Clair $2.5 million and would continue paying her $500,000 per year. Later reporting from the Wall Street Journal indicated that $1 million of these payments to St. Clair were structured as a loan. Involvement with Jeffrey Epstein In 2014, Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell appeared together in a photograph taken at an Academy Awards after-party, which Musk later described as a
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