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businessman and entrepreneur (born 1971)

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Elon Reeve Musk (born 28 June 1971) is a South African-born entrepreneur and business magnate resident in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; president of the Musk Foundation; and owner of X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, Inc. With an estimated net worth of about US$487.3 billion as of October 2025, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg billionaires index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

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Birth Name: Elon Reeve Musk

Alternative Names: Elon R. Musk • Elon R Musk • Musk

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Apple's store is like having a 30% tax on the Internet. Definitely not ok. Literally 10 times higher than it should be.

The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened.

I'm trying to do useful things.

Offer me money, offer me strength, I don't care.

Support freedom of speech in the UK!

I didn’t “think I was qualified”. There was no other choice. No one good would join a rocket startup as chief engineer that they thought was destined for failure.

The left has always been the party of violence

This is just my strong, intuitive sense ... that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization

Fools are determined to be fools. Trying to stop them from being so is futile.

You are assuming that I wish to be popular. I don't care. I do care that millions of people may die needlessly for an essentially identical outcome.
Russia is doing partial mobilization. They go to full war mobilization if Crimea is at risk. Death on both sides will be devastating.
Russia has >3 times population of Ukraine, so victory for Ukraine is unlikely in total war. If you care about the people of Ukraine, seek peace.

Yeah, climate change should really be considered a centrist issue, as it affects everyone.

SpaceX has roughly 6000 satellites and not once have we had to maneuver around a UFO.

The minds of youth are easily corrupted, which is why the corrupt ply their propaganda to the youth

Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves. Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Thai navy seals escorted us in — total opposite of wanting us to leave. Water level was actually very low & still (not flowing) — you could literally have swum to Cave 5 with no gear, which is obv how the kids got in. If not true, then I challenge this dude to show final rescue video. You know what, don’t bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.

if you assume any rate of improvement at all, then games will be indistinguishable from reality
we could be in base reality
this is just about probability
there are many, many simulations
you might as well call them reality, or multiverse
they're running on the substrate ... that substrate is probably boring