Who is Elon Musk? Twitter and Tesla owner's life and how he made his billions

Elon Musk is prepared to take over Twitter, making waves around the globe as the serial entrepreneur continues to build his empire as the world's richest person, according to both Bloomberg and Forges. But what do we really know about the billionaire?

The 50-year-old CEO and founder of Space X was born and raised in South Africa. The entrepreneur showed signs of having a business mindset from an early age. The entrepreneur went door to door selling homemade chocolate Easter eggs with his brother before going on to develop his first computer game at the age of 12.

Elon's early life wasn't all flowers and roses. His parents went through a divorce and Elon was bullied at school, facing difficulties due to his Asperger's Syndrome.

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He moved to Canada and then the US and later received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1995, Elon moved to California to attend Stanford University but instead dropped out and co-founded a web software company with his brother Kimbal. The company was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.

That same year, Elon co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form Paypal. Two years later, he sold the company to eBay for $1.5 billion.

In 2002, Elon founded SpaceX and two years later joined Tesla as chairman and product architect before becoming its CEO in 2008.

Elon Musk is now the world's richest person, according to Forbes and Bloomberg, with an astonishing net worth of about about $250 billion. His wealth is largely based on his shares in Tesla of which he owns about 17%.

In 2020, he had passed Facebook co-founder Mark