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Write a wikipedia on Elon Musk :- Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American entrepreneur, inventor, and billionaire who is the founder, CEO, and chief technology officer of several companies, including SpaceX, Tesla, Inc., X Corp., The Boring Company, Neuralink, and OpenAI. He is also the president of the Musk Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports renewable energy, human space exploration, pediatric research, and education. Musk is widely regarded as one of the most influential and visionary innovators of the 21st century, having pioneered breakthroughs in the fields of aerospace, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and social media. He is the wealthiest person in the world as of September 2023, with an estimated net worth of US$226 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $249 billion according to Forbes12
Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother and a South African father. He developed an early interest in computing and entrepreneurship, and taught himself how to program at the age of 10. He sold his first software, a video game called Blastar, for $500 when he was 12. He attended the University of Pretoria for a brief period before moving to Canada at the age of 18, where he obtained Canadian citizenship through his mother. He then enrolled at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he met his first wife, Justine Wilson. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned two bachelor’s degrees in economics and physics. He moved to California in 1995 to pursue a PhD in applied physics at Stanford University, but dropped out after two days to start his first company, Zip2, with his brother Kimbal. Zip2 was an online city guide software company that was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Musk used $12 million of his share to co-found X.com, an online bank that merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal, an online payment system. In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, and Musk received $165 million from the dea