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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Time Person of the Year 2021
★Fortune Businessperson of the Year 2013, 2020
★WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year Award in Technology 2011
★Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year 2007
★Edison Achievement Award 2014
★Fellow of the Royal Society 2018
★Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization 2011
★National Academy of Engineering member 2022
★Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal 2012
★Forbes Most Innovative Leaders 2019
Notable Facts
→CEO and Product Architect of Tesla since 2008
→Founder and CEO of SpaceX since 2002
→Owner of X (formerly Twitter) since 2022
→Founded xAI artificial intelligence company in 2023
→Net worth estimated at $809 billion as of April 2026
→World's wealthiest person since 2025
→Co-founded PayPal (X.com) and Zip2 in the 1990s
→Moved Tesla and X headquarters from California to Texas
→Over 85 million Twitter/X followers as of 2022
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