CRONICA
Elon Reeve Musk (introducción)
Elon Reeve Musk (born, 28 June 1971), known as Elon Musk, is a South African
businessman, conservative political activist and tycoon who also holds Cannadia and
American citizenship. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel
investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-
founder of Neuralink and OpenAI, although he no longer has a stake in the latter due to
disagreements over the direction of the company. In addition to being the chief technology
officer of x corp. With an estimated net worth of about $252.4 billion in July 2024,8 he
became the richest person in the world according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires Index.
Family Childhood, youth and formation
His parents, Errol Musk and Maye Haldeman, met in high school. He was a South African
engineer and property developer who was once the co-owner of an emerald mine in the
Republic of Zambia near Lake Tanganyika and a Pretoria councillor who opposed
apartheid policies and the National Party in South Africa. His mother is a nutritionist and
model; A native of Canada, she moved to Pretoria in 1950. They married in 1970 and
within three years had three children: Elon (June 28, 1971), Kimbal (September 20, 1972),
and Tosca Musk (July 20, 1974). The family was very wealthy in Elon's youth.
Elon Musk grew up in a large house with his siblings and several cousins. His mother
worked at home as a nutritionist consultant. On weekends she also worked as a model, so
her children hardly saw their parents and had a lot of freedom to pursue their interests. At
the age of nine he began programming a Commodore VIC-20 that had 8 kilobytes of
RAM. At the age of ten he learned to program. At the age of twelve, he designed his first
program, a space video game called Blastar, and sold it for the equivalent of $500 to the
South African magazine PC and Office Technology.
Main invention that contributes to environmental sustainability
He invents an electric motor with lithium-ion batteries that achieved acceleration from 0
to 100 in less than 4 seconds it was the fastest electric sports car on the market.
He also recently presented his prototype humanoid robot called Optimus as the latest
project of his company Tesla, but he fears for the development of runaway artificial
intelligence.
Hobbies or main interest
He reads a lot, but describes himself as a workaholic, he spends most of his time with his
companies, Tesla and Space X, and when he has free time he plays with his children,
twins and triplets who have been with each other for two years.
Conclusions
From a very young age Elon Reeve Musk showed great independence and interest in
technology and technological advances, he has always wanted to excel with his
technological projects and thanks to his persistence and study he is achieving it, that is
why today he is cataloged as one of the greatest developers of technology, title that
supports his recognition In June 2016, Business Insider named Musk as one of the "Top
10 Business Visionaries Creating Value for the World," along with Mark Zuckerberg and
Sal Khan.
By: Jose Raul Salcedo Vargas File 2277869
