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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Automotive Industries page on 22 June 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an engineer, industrial designer, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a citizen of South Africa, Canada, and the United States. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. A self-made billionaire, as of June 2020 his net worth was estimated at $38.8 billion and he is listed by Forbes as the 31st-richest person in the world. He is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.
Born to a Canadian mother and South African father, Musk was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School and a bachelor's degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He moved to California in 1995 to begin a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University, but decided to pursue a business career instead of enrolling. He subsequently co-founded (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.
In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.
In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop. Musk has said the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to "change the world and help humanity". His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption and lessening the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.
| Date | Document Name & Details | Documents |
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| 27 September 2018 | United States Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Elon Musk Complaint United States District Court Southern District of New York |  PDF - 216KB - 23 pages |
| 29 September 2018 | United States Securities and Exchange Commission Vs. Tesla, Inc. Complaint United States District Court Southern District of New York | PDF - 107KB - 9 pages |
| 15 May 2020 letter date | To: Elon Musk, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tesla, Inc. From: Mayor Sylvester Turner, City of Houston | JPG - 122KB - 1 page |
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 17 August 2018 | Tesla Stock Drops; Musk Under Fire | VOA News |
| 27 September 2018 | Elon Musk Charged with Securities Fraud for Misleading Tweets | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| 29 September 2018 | Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges; Tesla Charged With and Resolves Securities Law Charge | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| 3 June 2022 | Elon Musk emails tell Tesla employees return to office, or assume you have resigned Leaked correspondence between Tesla, Inc. boss Elon Musk and members of his executive team sent on Tuesday but published on Wednesday reveal his insistence that employees maintain an in-office presence for 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. | News Article (text) Publisher: Wikinews Topics: Elon Musk, Tesla |
