Elon Musk
Born in Pretoria, South Africa, and holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and physics. He co-founded Zip2 (sold to Compaq for $307 million in 1999) and X.com, which merged into PayPal and was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. He founded SpaceX in 2002 to reduce the cost of access to space and enable Mars colonization, pioneering reusable rocket technology with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. SpaceX holds Starlink, Crew Dragon, and Starship programs central to both commercial space and U.S. national security launch.





