Elon Musk: crazy bird

If you’ve never heard the name Elon Musk, it’s probably because you’ve been locked up in a cave for (at least) a good fifteen years. Given the recent Twitter takeover, layoffs and layoffs that followed, the Tesla phenomenon and the SpaceX rocket, the richest man in the world today is also one, if not the most famous boss on the planet. With a slight bonus compared to his colleagues Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs, he is not shy about giving his opinion on everything, even if it looks like nonsense, and he no longer hates having his personal life commented on. In press. It even seems to amuse him.

It’s not uncommon for Mr. Musk to appear on American prime-time TV shows and throw nuggets like, “I’m doing my best to repopulate the planet.” The guy has a lot to talk about on the case, as he is the father of ten children (including one who died in infancy) and is still married three times. The entrepreneur has also had his share of explosive romances, the one he maintained with Amber Heard topped his impressive list. Maybe because she is one of the few women who drove him crazy (see box)? When he was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Reeve Musk already seemed destined to get almost everything he wanted in a country where whites were still kings under the apartheid regime. His father Errol is not only an engineer and property developer, but also owns an emerald mine in Zambia under joint ownership. In short, he is very rich. His mother, Mei, is a stunning, well-known Canadian model and nutritionist in her spare time. Little Elon has everything to be happy, and yet … Ashley Vance, the author of his biography Elon Musk. Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX: Entrepreneur who will change the world swears he had a very difficult childhood.

Elon Musk: the king of communications

The real killer!

The richest man in the world has a fairly fast pulse. In 2000, he married Justine Wilson, a young and pretty Canadian woman whom he met when he was a student. They divorced in 2008, and Elon did everything not to share his fortune with the mother of his first six children. This is followed by British actress Talulah Riley, whom he married on September 25, 2010, to divorce 16 months later before remarrying her in July 2013 and then divorcing her again in March 2016. He then fell in love with Amber Heard, who formalized their relationship in 2017, but left after a few months. In 2018, we discover his romance with underground Canadian singer Grimes, sitting just like him. The couple separated in 2021 after having two children. “If I’m not in love, if I’m not with someone for a long time, I can’t be happy. […] Going to bed alone is killing me,” he admitted to Rolling Stone magazine in 2017. In love - yes, but how many women at the same time?

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Talulah Riley - ©ABACA

Rejected by the other kids at school, he claims to have experienced martyrdom at home when his father was given custody of him, as well as his younger brother Kimbal and his younger sister Tosca when his parents divorced. He was then only 8 years old. Elon describes the pater familias as “a terrible person. […] Almost every crime you can think of, he committed.” However, according to him, the situation does not improve when he grows up and begins his studies in Canada. “I worked all my studies,” he admitted to his biographer. Farm and sawmill. I went to Queen’s University on a scholarship and loan, and I did the same at Pennsylvania and Stanford. I ended up owing $100,000.”

Truth or lie ? Sources differ, but Elon clearly never needed, whoever later claims he has Asperger’s, a form of autism, attended the best private schools, and this cover story he forged gives him an image of a hardworking and worthy self. man made, like America loves them. It’s good, he wants to win her! It was there that he founded his first startup Zip2 with his brother in 1995. The very first investor to believe in him was one of his mother’s wealthy friends. The resale of Zip2 brought him 21 million euros in 1999. He began to take off. Mr. Musk has a knack for finding projects that break through. He uses his intuition in line with what he says, which sometimes has serious consequences, because when he has a bad feeling for the evolution of a company, he can lay off hundreds of employees overnight. In private life, his first wife, Justine Wilson, swears he would have told her, “If you were my employee, I would fire you.”

What Elon wants, the one who considers himself the ideal alpha male prototype gets it. In 2014, he publicly declares to François Hollande, then President of the French Republic, that one day he will destroy an Ariane rocket along with SpaceX. He vows that his company will also be the first private lodge to send people into space. She really will. Musk considers himself a superhero, and many people consider him one, especially in the United States, as actor Robert Downey Jr. screams loud and clear that he was his inspiration for the Iron Man character he embodies on the big screen. Hollywood loves a billionaire and this one brings him back well.

Say goodbye to brushed hair and outdated cotton shirts, Elon has hair implants in, takes care of his skin and white teeth and completely transforms. From now on, every year we see him in the hands of beauties at the MET Gala in New York. Ego, always ego… but not only. Because if there’s one thing that can’t be taken away from Elon, it’s that he’s smart, not to say opportunistic. Not only does he not hesitate to take credit for his most outstanding projects such as Tesla, even though he is not an inventor, he is also excellent at communicating according to his own interests. He funded Democratic politicians before openly supporting Donald Trump, to whom he returned his Twitter account, in the name of sacred freedom of speech. On the other hand, in her companies we are still looking for her. The first of his employees to criticize him is fired on the spot, which hasn’t hurt since the Twitter takeover in late October. Publicly and privately, those who get in the way of Elon always get a response from Musk. Some studies now predict that by 2024 his personal fortune will reach almost 1,000 billion euros. Of course, nothing can stop Elon’s momentum!

Holy family!

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This year, Elon took part in the MET Gala hand in hand not with a victory, but with his mother, model May Musk. The entrepreneur is crazy about him, which cannot be said about his father, whom he hates. This seventy-year-old man is special, because he recently had two children … from the daughter of his ex-wife! Atmosphere. Elon did not stand aside, as he is the father of ten offspring. He had twins Griffin and Xavier, 18, then triplets named Kai, Saxon and Damian, born in 2006, with Justine Wilson, and little Nevada, who died at 10 weeks. Singer Grimes is giving birth to son X Æ A-XII on May 4, 2020 and daughter Exu Dark Siderel in December 2021. At the same time, in November 2021, the entrepreneur becomes the father of twins born from his relationship with Canadian Siobhan Zilis, project director of her startup Neuralink. In June 2022, one of his elders, Xavier Alexander Mask, discovers that he is transgender and asks that he no longer take his father’s surname, but his mother’s. Jenna Wilson, now called Vivian, then states that she no longer wants to be associated with him “in any form whatsoever”.

his antics

Elon loves to flaunt in the media, whether it’s a cowboy on Saturday Night Live May 9, 2021, or posts on Twitter and elsewhere. Perhaps his biggest mistake came in July 2018 when he wanted to send a miniature submarine to rescue young Thais stuck deep in a flooded cave. Following the British caver who saved the children, he gets angry and directly calls the latter a “pedophile” on Twitter. Musk was also accused of sexual harassment by a SpaceX flight attendant during a corporate flight in 2016. He reportedly paid her €240,000 to avoid trial.

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1995 He founded his first startup Zip2 with his brother Kimbal at the age of 24. His resale will bring him 21 million euros.

1999 Elon co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with PayPal the following year. The set was bought by eBay in 2002, and then he pocketed 240 million euros.

2002 The entrepreneur founded the company SpaceX, which develops reusable rockets. The company becomes a NASA service provider and the first private firm to enter Earth orbit.

2008 He becomes a major shareholder in electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors. He takes direction and revolutionizes the automotive industry.

2013 The billionaire unveils Hyperloop, a solar-powered subsonic train project that travels at 1,200 km/h in vacuum capsules. While this is not completely definitive.

2016 The entrepreneur is the co-founder of Neuralink, a company specializing in brain implants to connect people and machines.

2016-2017 Musk becomes an adviser to Donald Trump. He resigns his post when the American president withdraws from the Paris climate agreement.

2021 According to Bloomberg, he became the richest man in the world. His fortune is now estimated at 250 billion euros.

OCTOBER 2022 After months of offers and then rejection, Elon buys Twitter for 42 billion euros.