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Feb 23, 2021 · Elon Musk didn't always have an easy ride in life. His mom shares how they lived in poverty in Canada after moving from South Africa.
Feb 17, 2023 · Musk belonged to an upper-middle-class family in South Africa. So, while they were wealthy enough to have a comfortable lifestyle, they couldn't support Musk after he moved to Canada....
- Anuradha Garg
- He went door-to-door selling candy to rich people. While growing up in Pretoria, Musk, his brother Kimbal and their cousins traveled around the wealthy parts of the South African capital selling homemade chocolate Easter eggs.
- He was bullied. As he discussed in an interview on "60 Minutes," Musk had, in some ways, a challenging childhood. While he attended grade school in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk was not only the youngest and smallest kid in his class, but he was nerdier and much more into books than many jocks at school.
- His parents thought he was deaf. Musk was so introspective as a kid that his parents and doctors ordered tests to check if he was deaf. His mother Maye Musk eventually learned this was his way of daydreaming about his inventions.
- He made his own explosives and rockets. While his parents were away, Musk lived mostly under the watch of a housekeeper. According to Musk, she was mainly there to make sure he didn't break anything.
Oct 28, 2022 · The infamous CEO, whose tweets move markets and have caused cryptocurrencies to surge and crash, held the title of world’s richest person earlier this year – despite strong competition from other...
May 12, 2015 · Reuters. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk was a "bookish" and awkward young boy, interested in computers and sci-fi. His father was emotionally abusive and tough on his children,...
Musk has repeatedly described himself as "cash poor", and has "professed to have little interest in the material trappings of wealth". In May 2020, he pledged to sell almost all physical possessions. Musk has defended his wealth by saying he is accumulating resources for humanity's outward expansion to space. Notes
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother, Maye Musk (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
