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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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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

Q & A