How Elon Musk makes and spends his billionsEmmanuel OcbazghiTanza Loudenback
The story of Tesla and Elon Musk can be traced back to the early 2000s, when Musk was ousted as CEO of his first company, PayPal. That incident taught Musk a crucial lesson about the importance of being in control, even when it wasn’t your own company. In episode two ofLand of the...
How much money does Elon Musk make a second? Elon Musk makes $1027 per second. The calculation is based on the time it took him to amass his vast fortune over the last 11 years. For context, Bloomberg first labeled Musk a billionaire in June 2013, when the publication pinned his wealth...
Musk's endorsement was arguably the most high profile and coveted of this election cycle, given his unprecedented mix of wealth, celebrity and media reach. But the weeks since have been defined by stumbles and missed opportunities. The two men publicly disagreed about how much money Musk would...
Elon Musk is both the CEO of the largest U.S. EV maker and the right-hand-man to President Donald Trump. Bears say it's a disaster for Tesla, bulls say a boon.
TopicsElon Musk Chris Taylor Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He mov...
To prove the point once more, Elon Musk recently doubled down on anextemist right-wing memeyet again favoring a racist tonein a comment about the Ukraine war. Four huge problems with this: First, predictably his defenders invoked “white savior” logic similar to South African apartheid (or...
“Everyone has tough parents,” Kimbal tells me from his home in Boulder. “The public seems interested in our experience with our father, but people should let it go. We’ve let it go. We’ve gotten past it.” Asked what Elon was like as a child, his mother, Maye Musk, says only...
Musk has other plans for X, though;he envisions turning it into an "everything app," along the lines of WeChat, because in the West and outside China, there's nothing like it. X as a money spinner? WeChat generates significant revenue throu...
and hardly anyone ever even calls him on it. Elon Musk started promising his own driverless cars in 2014 or so, and kept up his promises every year or two, eventually promising that whole fleets of driverless taxis were just around the corner. That too still hasn’t happened. (Then again...