1971 - Born in Pretoria, South Africa
1995 - Graduated University of Pennsylvania
1995 - Zip2 founded
1999 - X.com / PayPal founded
2002 - SpaceX founded
2004 - Tesla joined
2008 - Tesla near bankruptcy, SpaceX rocket failures
2010s - Expansion into AI, Neuralink, The Boring Company
2022 - Acquired Twitter for $44 billion
2024 - Rebranded Twitter to X; became first to reach $400B net worth
2026 - SpaceX acquired xAI; slated to send first Starships to Mars.