The Chief Executive of electric car company Tesla , Elon Musk has emerged the world’ s wealthiest person , a spot previously claimed by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos .
His wealth as estimated by CNBC is $ 185 billion after share price in his company surged in the past year .
Here are some things you didn’t know about Musk:
1 . Musk was born in South Africa on June 28 , 1971 , to Maye and Errol Musk who also gave birth to Kimbal ( brother ) and Tosca ( sister ) .
2 . He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with degrees in economics and physics .
3 . He dropped out of Stanford University just after two days into a PhD in applied physics and material sciences . His decision paid off after Zip2 , a company which he started after dropping out was acquired by Compaq for $ 307 million in 1999 .
4 . Companies he founded and co -founded include Zip2 , PayPal ( X .com) , The Musk Foundation , SpaceX , Tesla , SolarCity , OpenAI , Neuralink, The Boring Company , and Thud .
5 . He was included in Bloomberg’s list of 50 most influential names and was ranked 25 th on the Forbes list of The World ’ s Most Powerful People in 2018 .
7 . He made a guest appearance in the movie Iron Man 2 , and also appeared in an episode of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (‘ The Platonic Permutation’) and The Simpsons .
8 . He has been married thrice and has five sons with his first wife Justine Wilson ( one set of twins and one set of triplets ) . All his children attend a school he set up in a mansion in California which he called Ad Astra .
9 . Despite being Tesla CEO , a company founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning , Musk earns an annual salary of $ 1 .
10 . Musk was recently offered a green card by China , which is a privilege enjoyed by an elite group of foreigners , Nobel laureates and a former NBA star .
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