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Meet, Elon Reeve Musk, the richest man on Earth. Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of the Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around US$261 billion as of December 2021.

Born June 28, 1971, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world.

Musk was born to a Canadian mother and South African father, and raised in Pretoria, South Africa.

A quote by Elon Musk:

"As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work." "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur." "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary." "I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."

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