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My Take
Honestly, Elon Musk is the guy I can't stop watching even when I want to look away. A kid from Pretoria who taught himself to code, sold his way up through the early internet, then bet everything on rockets and electric cars when basically everyone said both were doomed? That takes a special kind of stubborn. And the thing is, it worked: SpaceX landing boosters upright still feels like science fiction to me, and Tesla dragged the whole industry toward electric whether it wanted to go or not. He's also a chaos magnet who lives on his own platform and never met a tweet he wouldn't send, which is exhausting and weirdly entertaining. Visionary, provocateur, walking headline. I roll my eyes and stay glued anyway.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Elon Musk
- Name (Japanese)
- イーロン・マスク
- Reading
- いーろん・ますく
- Born
- June 28, 1971 (age 55)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Boar
- Origin
- Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
- Occupation
- programmer / engineer / entrepreneur / investor / politician
2. Background
- High school
- Pretoria Boys High School
- University
- University of Pennsylvania
Awards & achievements
- 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2012 Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- 2021 Time Person of the Year
- 2021 Time 100
- 2021 Financial Times Person of the Year
- 2021 John Fritz Medal
- 2018 Time 100
- 2009 NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Elon Musk born?
Born June 28, 1971 (age 55).
Where is Elon Musk from?
Elon Musk is from Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
What does Elon Musk do?
Elon Musk works as programmer, engineer, entrepreneur, investor, politician.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.