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Elon Musk[✓]

Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer

Building a multi-planetary future. CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. Founder of xAI, The Boring Company, and Neuralink. Co-founder of PayPal and OpenAI. Owner of X. Currently at SpaceX / Tesla / xAI in Austin, United States 🇺🇸.

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Selected Works

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Experience

CV
2023 — Present

Founder & CEO / xAI

Building artificial intelligence to understand the universe.

2022 — Present

Owner & CTO / X (formerly Twitter)

Leading product, engineering and the transformation into an everything app.

2016 — Present

Co-founder / Neuralink

Developing high-bandwidth brain–machine interfaces.

2016 — Present

Founder / The Boring Company

Solving traffic with high-speed underground tunnels.

2004 — Present

CEO & Product Architect / Tesla

Accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy.

2002 — Present

Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer / SpaceX

Designing, building and launching reusable rockets to make humanity multiplanetary.

1999 — 2002

Co-founder / X.com / PayPal

Co-founded online bank X.com, which merged to become PayPal. Acquired by eBay in 2002.

1995 — 1999

Co-founder / Zip2

City guide software for newspapers. Acquired by Compaq for $307M.

Skills

Stack
Engineering
Rocket propulsionEV powertrain designBattery systemsAI / ML
Approach
First-principles thinkingVertical integrationRapid iteration
Leadership
Vision-settingEngineering recruitingProduct strategy

Press & Features

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Clients
NASAU.S. Space ForceT-MobileU.S. Department of DefenseGoogle

Writing & Talks

Testimonials

"Elon sets goals that sound impossible, then makes them feel inevitable. Working with him changes how you think about what's achievable."

Gwynne Shotwell, President & COO, SpaceX (demo)

"He pushes harder on design and engineering details than anyone I've worked with. The bar is the laws of physics."

Franz von Holzhausen, Chief Designer, Tesla (demo)

"A once-in-a-generation operator. He compresses decades of execution into a few short years."

Tim Urban, Wait But Why (demo)

Education

1992 — 1995

BS Physics & BS Economics (Wharton) / University of Pennsylvania

Dual degrees in Physics from the College of Arts and Sciences and Economics from the Wharton School.

1990 — 1992

Undergraduate studies / Queen's University

Studied at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario before transferring to UPenn.

Certifications

Languages

EnglishNative
AfrikaansConversational

FAQ

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