Musk made his money differently than most of today’s famous billionaires. Instead of one amazing idea, he had several good ones. And instead of a bunch of clever, safe investments, he made just a few spectacularly risky ones. But there was a method to his madness, even if it wasn’t ...
How Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, makes and spends his $20 billion fortuneTanza Loudenback
Elon Musk, seen as one of the most visionary tech entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley scene, started his “career” as anentrepreneurat an early age. After selling his first startup, Zip2, in 1999, he made $22 million, which he used to found X.com, which would later become PayPal, ...
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, Segways never took over the world either, ...
Musk, whose wealth is pegged at $240 billion byBloomberg, hasn't always been at the top of the heap. In early 2020, his wealth was just one-tenth of where it stands today, with his then-fortune of $25.6 billion placing him below the likes of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Facebook CEO...
Elon Musk was fired from his role as CEO of PayPal in 2000, but has since created SpaceX and Tesla and become a billionaire.
By this point, Twitter had well and truly become the digital "town square" Musk would later talk of when announcing his plan to buy the platform in 2022. As well as creating a platform for politicians, it also played a role in political activism around the world, for example, in the Ar...
“[Musk] taking on an existing social media platform directly, possibly using his fortune to acquire it outright, would have tremendous ripple effects on the other major social media platforms,” said Emerson Brooking, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. ...
Elon Musk is often referred to as the “real Iron Man” because of his similarities to Tony Stark, the fictional character from Marvel Comics who becomes the superhero Iron Man. There are a few reasons for this comparison: Innovation and Technology: Like Tony Stark, Elon Musk is a brilliant...
Carlos Slim Helú built his fortune one brick at a time upon the solid foundation bequeathed to him by his wealthy father, eventually becoming the richest man in the world for a while (in 2024 at age 84 he is the 14th richest). His modus operandi is to buy companies in trouble, turn ...