Elon Musk - report

Business magnate (born 1971)

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner, CTO, and chairman of Twitter; founder of the Boring Company and X Corp.; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's Real Time Billionaires list as of June 2023, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, with an estimated net worth of around $225 billion according to Bloomberg and $235 billion according to Forbes.

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is Time's Person of the Year. He is also the world's richest person with a net worth of $266 billion. The magazine also honors vaccine scientists who tackled COVID-19. Simone Biles was named athlete of the year.
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Elon Musk asked his 62.8 million Twitter followers whether he should sell $21bn worth of shares in the electric car company in order to pay tax. 58% of those who responded said ‘yes’, and Tesla’s share price down 5% in pre-market trading on Monday. Musk said he would abide by the result said was ‘prepared to accept either outcome’
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Elon Musk said Tesla plans to build a humanoid robot. The CEO said the company hopes to develop a prototype for the robot by next year. "Tesla Bot" will use the same AI systems that help power the company's Full Self-Driving system.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirms that the electric-car company will start to open up its network of Superchargers to other vehicles ‘later this year’ In May, Tesla said it would no longer accept Bitcoin for purchases, citing environmental concerns.
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Tesla shareholders are suing Musk in Delaware Chancery Court, claiming that the superstar CEO pressured the company’s board into effectively bailing out SolarCity. If the judge finds that the deal was unfair, Musk may have to reimburse either the shareholders or Tesla using his personal wealth.
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Elon Musk has called the energy used by bitcoin 'insane' Follows his announcement that Tesla would no longer be taking bitcoin in payment for cars. Shares of Tesla have fallen 15% so far this week, lowering Musk's net worth by $20.5 billion. The price of Bitcoin has plunged more than 9% since Musk's tweet.
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Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk made his TV comedy debut on "Saturday Night Live" His off-the-cuff comments cratered the soaring price of the crypto asset Dogecoin. Robinhood, the online trading platform for buying and selling stock and cryptocurrency, suffered outages during Musk's appearance.
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Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX will land Starship rockets on Mars "well before 2030" He urged Europe to aim higher with its rocket technology to keep up in the space race. Musk said China will be Tesla's biggest market.
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Elon Musk-led Tesla Inc announced on Monday it had invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin. The move sent Bitcoin up more than 10% to a record high of $44,200. Tesla also said in its filing it would soon accept Bitcoin as a form of payment.
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Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world with a net worth of $185billion (£136billion) The South African-born entrepreneur is worth more than Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. Musk's wealth surge over the past year marks the fastest rise to the top of the rich list in history.