co-president
Senior Advisor to the President for Government Efficiency (2025–2025)
| Born | 1971-06-28 · Pretoria |
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| Citizenship | South Africa (since 1971), Canada (since 1971), United States (since 2002) |
| Party | Independent |
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| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS) |
| Occupation | CEO and product architect of Tesla, Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, Founder and CEO of SpaceXAI, Founder and CTO of X Corp., Co-founder of Neuralink, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Zip2, X.com and PayPal, President of the Musk Foundation |
| Awards | Full list |
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Elliptic says those laundering funds from the Binance hack minted homemade Elon Musk and animal-themed memecoins to move the stolen money. The additional swaps slow investigators, but the funds remain traceable onchain.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-11-09 15:54
After a hack involving $6.3 billion, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao asked Elon Musk to stop “trolling,” citing Binance’s stake of more than $1 billion in SpaceX.
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CNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-10-30 13:29
