One person, an unprecedented portfolio of industry-defining companies — from the internet and payments to electric cars, reusable rockets, satellite internet, brain interfaces, AI, and tunneling. Each profile is sourced and dated.
Chairman & lead investor (2004), CEO & Product Architect (2008–present)
The company that proved electric cars could outperform petrol — and grew into the most valuable automaker in the world.
Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer
The company that made rockets reusable, slashed the cost of space, and now launches most of the world's payload to orbit.
Founder (SpaceX division)
The largest satellite constellation ever built, delivering low-latency broadband to over 10 million people worldwide.
Co-founder
Implantable brain–computer interfaces that have let paralysed people control computers with their thoughts.
Founder
A frontier AI lab that built one of the world's largest supercomputers in months and ships the Grok models.
Founder
A tunneling company building fast, low-cost underground transit — already carrying millions of passengers in Las Vegas.
Owner / Executive Chairman & CTO
The global town square Musk acquired for $44B, pioneered crowdsourced fact-checking, and is rebuilding as an "everything app."
Co-founder, largest shareholder & CEO (early)
The online bank Musk founded that became PayPal — sold to eBay for $1.5B and seeding the famed "PayPal Mafia."
Co-founder
Musk's first company — early internet city guides and business directories for newspapers, sold to Compaq for $307M.
Chairman & principal backer
The rooftop-solar company Musk conceived and chaired, acquired by Tesla in 2016 to form its energy business.
Co-founder & early funder (2015–2018)
The AI research lab Musk co-founded in 2015 to keep advanced AI safe and open — before departing over direction and conflicts.