Business tycoon and investor Elon Reeve Musk FRS ; born June 28, 1971) hails from California. He also founded The Boring Company, co-founded Neura link, and Open AI, served as president of the Musk Foundation, and was the owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, an angel investor, as well as Tesla, Inc.’s CEO and product architect. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes’ real-time billionaires list, Musk will be the richest person in the world as of November 18, 2022, with an estimated net worth of over $181 billion. South African city of Pretoria is where Musk was raised. Prior to relocating to Canada at the age of 17, where he later attained citizenship through his mother, he attended the University of Pretoria. He enrolled at Queen’s University two years later and subsequently went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in both economics and physics.
He relocated to California in 1995 with plans to enroll at Stanford University, but left after just two days to pursue a career in business. He and his brother Kimbal co-founded the web software company Zip2, which was later purchased by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Musk was a co-founder of the online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity to establish PayPal the following year. PayPal was purchased by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
The alleged pseudonymous person or persons behind the creation of the leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) go by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, however Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has suggested that the name was actually created in a “conspiracy.” What Happened: Musk noted on Twitter that the names of four businesses — Samsung Electronics, Toshiba Corp. (OTC:TOSYY), Nakamichi Corp., and Motorola — are reportedly the sources of the moniker “Satoshi Nakamoto.”
Why It Matters: Satoshi’s whereabouts and identity are still unknown.
Musk expressed his thoughts that Bitcoin’s enigmatic and elusive creator, computer scientist Nick Szabo, was behind it all during an interview on Lex Fridman’s show in December of last year. According to some hypotheses, Satoshi Nakomoto is actually more than one person using the alias. It should be mentioned that Billy Markus, the co-creator of Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), uses the Twitter handle “Shibetoshi Nakamoto.” Musk is a strong advocate for Dogecoin. If you’re wondering if Musk’s tweet received a response from the elusive Satoshi Nakomoto, you should know that the last time this alias was used to write a message was in December 2010.
