New Delhi, April 7 -- Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971, moved to Canada as a teenager, studied at Queen's University and the University of Pennsylvania, and left Stanford shortly after starting to pursue Internet ventures. He co-founded Zip2 and later X.com, which became part of PayPal, then founded SpaceX in 2002 and became an early backer of Tesla, taking over as CEO in 2008.

Over time, Musk expanded his work into electric vehicles, rockets, AI, brain-computer interfaces, and social platforms, making him one of the most influential and controversial business figures of his era. Tesla's official biography lists him as lead designer at SpaceX and highlights his leadership at Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink.

"I came to ...