Elon Reeve Musk, born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, has become synonymous with innovation and controversy. His early life was marked by an escape from apartheid South Africa, moving to Canada in 1989, and later to the U.S., where he became a citizen in 2002. Musk's career trajectory includes founding or co-founding companies like Zip2, X.com (which evolved into PayPal), SpaceX, Tesla, Inc., Neuralink, and xAI, with significant involvement in The Boring Company and a brief but impactful stint with Twitter, now known as X Corp.