Elon Musk

Elon Musk

By
Natthakitt Prapunwattana No.24 M.3/11

Content

Preface
Introduction
Biography
Spiritual belief
Some pictures of spiritual activities
Reference

Preface

Religion behind the mastermind. The world richest man, Elon Musk

Introduction

There has been a lot of debate about Elon Musk's religion but
according to a recent interview. He does not believe in religions, He
believes humans are the ones who have the greater power.

“I do devote myself to the advancement of humanity,
by using technology.” Elon said in an interview

Still, at the site of a hotly anticipated Falcon lunch, Elon Musk
was recorded announcing to “any entities that are listening.
Please, bless this launch.” which seems to leads to the point that
he does believe in other terrestrial life but not in terrestrial life that has the
greater power.

Biography

Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and
businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal),
SpaceX in 2002, and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a
multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2,
to a division of Compaq Computers. Musk made headlines in May 2012,
when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send the first commercial
vehicle to the International Space Station. He bolstered his portfolio with
the purchase of SolarCity in 2016 and cemented his standing as a leader of
industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President
Donald Trump's administration. In January 2021, Musk also reportedly
surpassed Jeff Bezos as the wealthiest man in the world.

Elon Reeve Musk FRS born June 28, 1971) 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$270 billion as of January 2022, Musk is
the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg billionaires
index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

Musk was born to a Canadian mother and a South African father
and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He briefly attended the University of
Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 17 to avoid conscription. He was
enrolled at Queen's University and transferred to the University of
Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degree in
economics and physics, then moved to California in 1995 to attend
Stanford University but decided instead to pursue a business career,
co-founding the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The

startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. The same year,
Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in
2000 to form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5
billion.

In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer, and
space transport services company, of which he is CEO and CTO. In 2004,
he joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla,
Inc.) as chairman and product architect, becoming its CEO in 2008. In
2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company that
was later acquired by Tesla and became Tesla Energy. In 2015, he
co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that promotes friendly
artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a
neurotechnology company focused on developing brain-computer
interfaces and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction
company. Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain
transportation system.

Musk has been criticized for unorthodox and unscientific stances
and highly publicized controversial statements. In 2018, he was sued by
the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting
that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. He settled with
the SEC, temporarily stepping down from his chairmanship, and agreed to
limitations on his Twitter usage. In 2019, he won a defamation trial
brought against him by a British caver who advised in the Tham Luang
cave rescue. Musk has spread misinformation about the COVID-19
pandemic and has received criticism from experts for his other views on
such matters as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and public transport.

Spiritual Activities

While he’s experimented with the practice, Musk hasn’t found
meditation particularly enlightening.

“It does slow the mind, but I don’t find myself drawn to it
frequently,” he said, noting that it’s not particularly useful for his
ever-active mind.

For the fiscal year ending June 2020, the Musk Foundation made
donations of a little less than $3 million to nine groups, mostly related to
education, and gave $20 million to Fidelity Charitable, which operates the
kind of donor-advised funds that critics say can function as a parking lot
for charitable dollars.

Elon Musk has also donated $1 million to #TeamTrees.
#TeamTrees objective is to take action against deforestation by planting 20
million trees

Musk announced a $100 million prize aimed at helping to solve
climate change, and he has made several other donations in 2021,
including a $1 million contribution to a Texas food bank

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/business/elon-musk-philanthropy.ht
ml#:~:text=For%20the%20fiscal%20year%20ending,parking%20lot%20f
or%20charitable%20dollars

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-dangles-6b-to-fight-world
-hunger-but-only-if-the-un-can-prove-his-money-would-solve-the-problem
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https://www.biography.com/business-figure/elon-musk#:~:text=Elon%20
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https://celebanswers.com/is-elon-musk-religious/