Elon musk

• Elon Musk is the charismatic chief executive officer (CEO) of electric car maker Tesla and rocket manufacturer SpaceX. • Following a contested process, Musk completed a deal to buy the company behind Twitter in October 2022, becoming the owner of the social media company. • Born and raised in South Africa, Musk spent time in Canada before moving to the United States. • Educated at the University of Pennsylvania in physics, Musk started getting his feet wet as a serial tech entrepreneur with early successes like Zip2 and X.com, which merged with a company that became PayPal. • Musk has behaved eccentrically from time to time. He has said he has Asperger’s syndrome. Bailey Mariner / Investopedia Early Life and Education Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, the oldest of three children. His father was a South African engineer, and his mother was a Canadian model and nutritionist. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived primarily with his father. He would later dub his father “a terrible human being...almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.” “They got my best (expletive) friend to lure me out of hiding so they could beat me up. And that (expletive) hurt,” Musk said. “For some reason, they decided that I was it, and they were going to go after me nonstop. That’s what made growing up difficult. For a number of years, there was no respite. You get chased around by gangs at school who tried to beat the (expletive) out of me...

DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST: Twitter has put what's known as a poison pill provision into place in order to block Elon Musk's potential takeover of the company. As a reminder, last week Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion, saying he would promote more free speech on the platform. So who is Elon Musk? He's the richest person on the planet, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and quite a bit of controversy. He's more than a celebrity. He's arguably the author and avatar of a new political economy. That is how Harvard historian Jill Lepore explains his significance in her podcast series, "The Evening Rocket." And she joins me now to talk about the billionaire CEO. Welcome. JILL LEPORE: Hi. Thanks so much for having me. ESTRIN: So your podcast isn't only focused on Elon Musk, the man. You also look at what he represents, and you call it Muskism. So what is Muskism? LEPORE: (Laughter) I think of it as sort of an extreme, extravagant form of capitalism - really, extraterrestrial capitalism. X is Musk's favorite letter of the alphabet, as it is of many science fiction fans. So X capitalism seems somehow also to fit. ESTRIN: How do you define extreme capitalism? LEPORE: I think it's a kind of unchecked capitalism that insists that the government really has no role in the regulation of economic activity at the practical level. I think at the cultural level, it really is engaged with selling the public on the idea of futurism as a way to impose economic conditions that come from the very d...

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On Wednesday, Musk briefly Contra Despite the sustained rally, shares of Tesla remain more than 40% below their November 2021 peak of $410, far underperforming the S&P’s 6% loss during the period. Key Background After surging during the pandemic, Tesla stock faltered dramatically last year as investors Tangent Tesla, which New York Times reported Monday Twitter’s advertising revenues were

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images/Shutterstock Times reporter Katie Rosman.) Despite the relentless chatter, how well do you really know Mr. Musk? Yes, he’s the electric-car guy, one of several space-bound billionaires, and Twitter’s cringiest and most powerful poster. But there’s so much more. (For example, did you know that he was 1. Musk thinks his father is “evil” Elon Musk was born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1971, the son of Errol, who at the time was the partial owner of an “He was such a terrible human being,” Musk Rolling Stone in 2017, weeping. “My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil … You have no idea about how bad. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.” 2. Musk has a point: Errol shot and killed three people and had a baby with his own stepdaughter Of Errol’s myriad wrongdoings, perhaps the most egregious is that he Daily Mail that he was tried for manslaughter, pleaded self-defense, and was ultimately acquitted. Also, in 2018, Errol Daily Mail (his publication of choice, apparently) that he had fathered a child with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. According to the Errol conceived the child with Bezuidenhout “in the heat of the moment,” Errol told the Daily Mail. “It happened one evening when Jana’s boyfriend threw her out of the house and she had slept over at my house. You have to understand — I’ve been single...

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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images/Shutterstock Times reporter Katie Rosman.) Despite the relentless chatter, how well do you really know Mr. Musk? Yes, he’s the electric-car guy, one of several space-bound billionaires, and Twitter’s cringiest and most powerful poster. But there’s so much more. (For example, did you know that he was 1. Musk thinks his father is “evil” Elon Musk was born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1971, the son of Errol, who at the time was the partial owner of an “He was such a terrible human being,” Musk Rolling Stone in 2017, weeping. “My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil … You have no idea about how bad. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.” 2. Musk has a point: Errol shot and killed three people and had a baby with his own stepdaughter Of Errol’s myriad wrongdoings, perhaps the most egregious is that he Daily Mail that he was tried for manslaughter, pleaded self-defense, and was ultimately acquitted. Also, in 2018, Errol Daily Mail (his publication of choice, apparently) that he had fathered a child with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. According to the Errol conceived the child with Bezuidenhout “in the heat of the moment,” Errol told the Daily Mail. “It happened one evening when Jana’s boyfriend threw her out of the house and she had slept over at my house. You have to understand — I’ve been single...

On Wednesday, Musk briefly Contra Despite the sustained rally, shares of Tesla remain more than 40% below their November 2021 peak of $410, far underperforming the S&P’s 6% loss during the period. Key Background After surging during the pandemic, Tesla stock faltered dramatically last year as investors Tangent Tesla, which New York Times reported Monday Twitter’s advertising revenues were

• Elon Musk is the charismatic chief executive officer (CEO) of electric car maker Tesla and rocket manufacturer SpaceX. • Following a contested process, Musk completed a deal to buy the company behind Twitter in October 2022, becoming the owner of the social media company. • Born and raised in South Africa, Musk spent time in Canada before moving to the United States. • Educated at the University of Pennsylvania in physics, Musk started getting his feet wet as a serial tech entrepreneur with early successes like Zip2 and X.com, which merged with a company that became PayPal. • Musk has behaved eccentrically from time to time. He has said he has Asperger’s syndrome. Bailey Mariner / Investopedia Early Life and Education Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, the oldest of three children. His father was a South African engineer, and his mother was a Canadian model and nutritionist. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived primarily with his father. He would later dub his father “a terrible human being...almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.” “They got my best (expletive) friend to lure me out of hiding so they could beat me up. And that (expletive) hurt,” Musk said. “For some reason, they decided that I was it, and they were going to go after me nonstop. That’s what made growing up difficult. For a number of years, there was no respite. You get chased around by gangs at school who tried to beat the (expletive) out of me...

DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST: Twitter has put what's known as a poison pill provision into place in order to block Elon Musk's potential takeover of the company. As a reminder, last week Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion, saying he would promote more free speech on the platform. So who is Elon Musk? He's the richest person on the planet, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and quite a bit of controversy. He's more than a celebrity. He's arguably the author and avatar of a new political economy. That is how Harvard historian Jill Lepore explains his significance in her podcast series, "The Evening Rocket." And she joins me now to talk about the billionaire CEO. Welcome. JILL LEPORE: Hi. Thanks so much for having me. ESTRIN: So your podcast isn't only focused on Elon Musk, the man. You also look at what he represents, and you call it Muskism. So what is Muskism? LEPORE: (Laughter) I think of it as sort of an extreme, extravagant form of capitalism - really, extraterrestrial capitalism. X is Musk's favorite letter of the alphabet, as it is of many science fiction fans. So X capitalism seems somehow also to fit. ESTRIN: How do you define extreme capitalism? LEPORE: I think it's a kind of unchecked capitalism that insists that the government really has no role in the regulation of economic activity at the practical level. I think at the cultural level, it really is engaged with selling the public on the idea of futurism as a way to impose economic conditions that come from the very d...