Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, and CEO of several prominent companies including SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother and a South African father. Musk showed an interest in technology and entrepreneurship at a young age, teaching himself computer programming and selling his first computer game at the age of 12. He studied physics and economics at the Universi...