Elon Musk is a South Africa-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and a cofounder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and Zip2. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop. Musk was born June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, to a Canadian-English mother and prominent model Maye Musk and a South African-born British father and electrical/mechanical engineer Errol Musk. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in locations in South Africa. He taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500.
Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School before graduating from Pretoria Boys High School and moving to Canada in 1988 at age 17, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. He did so before his South African military service, reasoning that it would be easier to emigrate to the United States from Canada than from South Africa.
At age 19, Musk was accepted into Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario for undergraduate study, and in 1992, after spending two years at Queen's University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he eventually received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School. Musk stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. In 1995, age 24, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in Applied physics at Stanford, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space. In 2002, he became an American citizen.
Musk has been married twice. He met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Musk (née Wilson), while both were students at Ontario's Queen's University, Kingston. They married in 2000 and separated eight years later after having six sons, five of whom they share custody. Their first son, Nevada Alexander, died of SIDS when he was 10 weeks old. Following the divorce, Justine Musk gave an interview describing her marriage with Musk in Marie Claire magazine. Musk announced in January 2012 that he had recently ended a four-year relationship with his second wife, British actress Talulah Riley. On January 18, 2012, he tweeted to Riley, "It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day." In July 2013, he decided to remarry Riley. On February 11, 2014, Musk was invited to attend a state dinner at the White House; the guest list included Musk and Riley. In a 60 Minutes interview on March 30, 2014 with CBS journalist Scott Pelley, Elon and Riley were shown together with Elon's five children. In December 2014, Musk filed for a second divorce from Riley.
Tosca Musk, Elon's sister, is the founder of Musk Entertainment and has produced various movies.
Scott Wolf is an American actor, known for his roles in the television series Party of Five as Bailey Salinger, Jake Hartman in Everwood and Chad Decker in V. Wolf was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Susan (née Levy), is retired, and his father, Steven Wolf, is a health care executive. Wolf was raised in a Reform Jewish family. He grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, and graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance. He also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. His cousin is Josh Wolf.
Wolf was engaged to Alyssa Milano in 1993, but were separated after a year and a half. In 2002, he began dating Kelley Marie Limp, an alumna of MTV's The Real World: New Orleans, after meeting through mutual friend Joel Goldman in New York City. They married on May 29, 2004, and planned to make their home in Santa Monica, California. Their son, Jackson Kayse, was born in 2009. On May 19, 2012, Wolf announced on Twitter that he and his wife were expecting their second child. Miller William was born on Saturday, November 10, 2012. On November 20, 2013, he announced their third child was on the way in May 2014. Their daughter Lucy Marie was born on May 24, 2014. Scott and his wife Kelley now make Park City, Utah their family home.
THE WIVES
Kelley Marie Limp and Justine Musk.
I was unsure on this one at first but seeing the wives matching sealed the deal for me. My guess is that the Elon Musk character didn't really invent anything they claim he invented, just like the Edison character which President Harding played. PayPal (Papal = Vatican) is probably another step toward a fully digital currency, which will make it easier to control the value of the U.S. Dollar more accurately. After all, when you take into account that something like 20% of all notes in America are Chinese counterfeits, there's no possible way the Federal Reserve can know how many notes are really in circulation. So in that case, how do they determine the value of currency if they don't know how scarce it is? Do they just pull a number out of thin air?
ReplyDeleteThis is great work. This guy is am...sending people to "planet Mars" (wherever that is,) come on now...where to begin with that?
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