wynalazki: Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world in terms of financial assets, with an estimated net worth of US$ 1.04 trillion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and $1.1 trillion according to Forbes, as of October 6, 2026, primarily from his ownership stakes of 42% of SpaceX and 20% of Tesla. He is eligible to receive additional Tesla and SpaceX equity awards subject to certain conditions. Musk was first listed on the Forbes list of The World's Billionaires in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion. According to Forbes, his net worth reached $300 billion in 2021; $400bn in December 2024; $500bn in October 2025; $600bn and $700bn in December 2025; $800bn in February 2026; and $900b…

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Errol Graham Musk (born 25 May 1946) is a South African businessman and politician who is the patriarch of the Musk family. He was a member of Pretoria City Council from 1972 to 1983, initially as an independent and then as a member of the Progressive Federal Party from 1980. As a businessman, he has worked as a mechanical engineering consultant, developed properties, and invested in various ventures including emerald trading. He is the father of Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world as of 2025. Musk married Maye Haldeman in 1970, and they had three children: Elon, Kimbal and Tosca. Haldeman divorced him in 1979, claiming he was abusive. He has since had two other marriages and four…

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Elon Musk has been actively involved in politics, particularly in the United States and Europe, throughout the majority of his business career. Despite historically donating to and voting for both Democrats and Republicans, his political contributions have since shifted almost entirely to right-wing candidates and politicians, outright stating in 2022 that he would no longer support Democrats. In the time since, Musk has become more vocal about his views, frequently promoting falsehoods about election fraud. As a result, he has been described as conservative, although he rejects the label and calls himself a moderate. Musk played a significant role in the 2024 United States presidential ele…

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The Musk family is a family with roots in South Africa, Canada, England, and the United States, whose most famous member is businessman and entrepreneur Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world. It also includes his parents Maye Musk, a model and author, and Errol Musk, a mine-owner, businessman and politician; siblings Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk, and cousin Lyndon Rive. Elon Musk's ex-wives are Justine Musk and Talulah Riley, and he has many children. Maye's father Joshua N. Haldeman was a chiropractor, aviator, and politician who promoted technocracy and South African apartheid.

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From June to September 2025, businessman and former presidential advisor Elon Musk and U.S. president Donald Trump engaged in a series of social media attacks, primarily across X (formerly Twitter) and Truth Social (platforms owned by Musk and Trump, respectively), following Musk's departure from the second Trump administration with his criticisms of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a bill intended to be landmark legislation for Trump. Prior to being political allies in 2024, Musk and Trump shared a history of mutual provocation. In 2022, Musk described Trump as an unsuitable president due to his age in response to Trump calling him a "bullshit artist". While the relations between the two ha…

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The Musk Partisan Effect on Tesla Sales. We study how Elon Musk's polarizing and partisan actions have impacted Tesla vehicle sales in the United States.Using county-level, monthly data on new vehicle registrations, we leverage how changes in vehicle sales over time diverge across counties with differing shares of Democratic and Republican voters.Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles.Musk's partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% because of substitution, and undermined California's progress in meeting its zero-emi…

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This is a list of the wealthiest Americans ranked by net worth. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. As of April 2025, there were 902 billionaires in the United States.

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The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by the American business magazine Forbes of people who are billionaires, i.e., they are estimated to have a net worth of US$1 billion or more. The list was first published in March 1987. The net worth of each individual is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets, and accounting for debt and other factors. This ranking excludes royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions, as well as people whose wealth is not able to be completely ascertained. In 2018, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was first ranked at the top and became the first centibillionaire included in the ranking, surpassing Microsoft founder Bill Gat…

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2026 (MMXXVI) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2020s decade. The early part of the year saw escalating armed conflicts in the Americas and Middle East. In January, the United States launched a military operation in Venezuela that captured sitting President Nicolás Maduro, leading to a blockade of Venezuelan oil exports that contributed to a crisis in Cuba. In Syria, an offensive by the Syrian government led to the Syrian Democratic Forces eventually being integrated into the Syrian…

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The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuation of US$1.77 trillion. On the first trading day, the company reached a market capitalization of about $2.1 trillion, positioning SpaceX as the sixth most valuable U.S.-listed firm. This valuation and the quantity of stock retained by Musk made him the first and only US dollar trillionaire, but were highly controversial. By late July 2026, SpaceX shares had fallen approximately 50% from their peak reached during the week after the IPO, causing Musk to lose his trillionaire status. The IPO rais…

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Elon Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and xAI. He is the wealthiest individual in the world, and a former U.S. government employee. Despite rejecting the conservative label and describing himself as a political moderate, Musk's views have become increasingly right-wing over time, leading them to be characterized as far-right and libertarian authoritarian. As the owner of Twitter, he has been accused of suppressing critics and allowing the spread of misinformation. Following his involvement in European politics, Musk’s public statements have received criticism from several world leaders. He frequently comments on topics r…

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A trillionaire is a person whose net worth is at least one trillion units of a given currency, typically the US dollar due to its status as a world currency. The only person to reach trillionaire status in terms of US dollars is Elon Musk, who first reached trillionaire status upon the initial public offering of his company SpaceX in 2026. Musk's net worth is highly concentrated in SpaceX, and SpaceX debuted at a record valuation of nearly US$2 trillion. Since then, SpaceX's volatile stock price has primarily influenced Musk's net worth, with its fluctuations causing him to lose and reclaim trillionaire status several times. Several other currencies have had their own trillionaires, sometim…