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Who is Elon Musk

Elon Musk

About Elon Musk

Who is Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South African-born American industrial engineer, entrepreneur, who co-founded Paypal and founded aerospace transportation services company SpaceX. He is also one of the early investors in Tesla, an electric car company, and now the Chief Executive Officer of the firm as well. With a $70.5 bn fortune, Musk sits comfortably at the 7th spot in the world's top 10 billionaires list.
Early years
 
Born in 1971, Elon Musk displayed an early talent in computers and video games and at the age of 12 created a video game code that earned him fame, as well as a fortune. He acquired
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Amazon to buy Globalstar in $11.57 bn deal to rival Musk's Starlink

Amazon has been working to ramp up its network by deploying about 3,200 satellites in Earth's low orbit by 2029, with roughly half required to be in place by a July 2026 regulatory deadline

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Updated On : 14 Apr 2026 | 7:07 PM IST

Amazon nears deal to acquire Globalstar in push to rival Musk's Starlink

Globalstar's shares have almost quadrupled in the past year, giving the company a market value of about $9.4 billion

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Updated On : 14 Apr 2026 | 8:43 AM IST

OpenAI accuses Elon Musk of 'ambush' as $100 billion-plus trial looms

OpenAI said the objectives Musk proposed earlier appear to be aimed at 'sandbagging the defendants and injecting chaos into proceedings, while trying to recast his public narrative about his lawsuit'

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Updated On : 11 Apr 2026 | 11:23 AM IST

Elon Musk seeks ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in lawsuit escalation

Musk said in a court filing that the goal of his lawsuit is to 'unwind OpenAI's for-profit conversation and restructuring' which he said would involve removing Altman and Prez Greg Brockman

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Updated On : 08 Apr 2026 | 6:33 AM IST

Intel joins Musk's Terafab AI chip project for robots, data centers

The company also posted a photo of CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Musk shaking hands, saying it hosted the world's richest man at its campus the past weekend.

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Updated On : 07 Apr 2026 | 11:35 PM IST

SpaceX targets record IPO with massive retail allocation, June roadshow

SpaceX plans $75 billion raise at up to $1.75 trillion valuation, with retail investors set to take an unprecedented share

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Updated On : 07 Apr 2026 | 8:37 AM IST

Big banks seeking a piece of spacex's IPO must subscribe to Musk's grok

Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their IT systems

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Updated On : 05 Apr 2026 | 10:52 PM IST

SpaceX targets more than $2 trillion valuation ahead of record-breaking IPO

At more than $2 trillion, SpaceX's valuation would increase by nearly two thirds in a matter of months

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Updated On : 03 Apr 2026 | 10:52 PM IST

Tesla sales rise after year of Musk boycotts but still miss expectations

Tesla has had to contend with lower demand due to the September expiration of a $7,500 tax credit for EV buyers, a blow to sales across the industry

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Updated On : 03 Apr 2026 | 7:14 AM IST

Elon Musk, US SEC head toward trial over Twitter investor fraud case

US Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk, alleging he delayed disclosing a 5% stake in Twitter, costing shareholders over $150 million

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Updated On : 02 Apr 2026 | 6:55 AM IST

SpaceX files for blockbuster IPO confidentially, eyes $1.75 trn valuation

The filing comes after SpaceX merged with Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI in a deal that valued the rocket company at $1 trillion and the developer of the Grok chatbot at $250 billion

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Updated On : 01 Apr 2026 | 10:15 PM IST

Meghalaya signs pact with Starlink to expand digital connectivity: CM

The CM said he was glad to witness the MoU signing between the Meghalaya government and Starlink India

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Updated On : 01 Apr 2026 | 7:30 PM IST

Musk must face class action over late disclosure of Twitter stake: Judge

The investors said Musk saved more than $200 million, and cheated them because they sold Twitter shares at depressed prices during the 11-day period

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Updated On : 01 Apr 2026 | 8:08 AM IST

MEA denies report of Elon Musk joining Modi-Trump call on West Asia

On Friday, the NYT reported that the Tesla CEO joined the phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump that took place on Tuesday

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Updated On : 28 Mar 2026 | 7:24 PM IST

Elon Musk joined phone call with Trump, PM Modi on West Asia conflict

The report said the inclusion of Musk, confirmed by two US officials, suggests that the world's richest man is back on better terms with the president

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Updated On : 28 Mar 2026 | 9:07 AM IST

Musk takes a swipe at judge after losing Twitter shareholder fraud trial

Targeting judges in cases that don't go his way is not new for Musk; earlier he took aim at the chief judge of the Delaware Chancery Court on X after she voided his Tesla pay package twice in 2024

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Updated On : 28 Mar 2026 | 8:38 AM IST

Modi, Trump had a productive conversation: White House on Tuesday talks

According to a report, billionaire businessman Elon Musk also joined the phone call between Modi and Trump when the two leaders discussed the situation in West Asia

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Updated On : 28 Mar 2026 | 7:47 AM IST

Elon Musk rips Twitter verdict, claims jury's $4.20 'joke' mocked him

The eight-person panel found Musk liable to Twitter investors for misleading them with two tweets he posted in May 2022 stating concerns about the prevalence of fake accounts on the platform

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Updated On : 27 Mar 2026 | 7:59 AM IST

Elon Musk's X loses case alleging advertiser boycott of its platform

The order is the latest rejection of attempts by organisations and politicians to force advertisers and social media platforms to loosen content restrictions

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Updated On : 26 Mar 2026 | 11:34 PM IST

Musk must face lawsuit over alleged unconstitutional role as Trump advisor

It's one of a handful of lawsuits challenging actions taken by the Department of Government Efficiency project last year that have outlasted Musk's tenure in the US government

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Updated On : 24 Mar 2026 | 8:54 AM IST