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Elon Musk
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in TechnologyAccording to a leaked memo, only 6 months after its acquisition, what does Elon Musk value Twitter at?
Answer: Elon Musk values Twitter at $20 billion, according to an internal memo reported by the Information on March 25, 2023. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in October 2022, meaning Twitter lost more than half its value in just half a year. However. Musk acknowledged it as an overpayment at the time of the…
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in BusinessWhat did Elon Musk do to regain his wealthiest person status in February 2023?
Answer: Elon Musk boosted Tesla’s stock price with new projects and products, such as opening a factory in Mexico, an Investor Day event, and the long-awaited Tesla Cybertruck and Semi Truck. His net worth reached $187.1 billion on Feb. 28, 2023, surpassing Bernard Arnault’s $185.3 billion. In December 2022. Musk lost his title to Arnault…
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in BusinessWhich historical world record did Elon Musk break in 2022?
Answer: Guinness World Records said on Jan. 10, 2022, that Elon Musk broke the record for the biggest loss of personal fortune, losing $182 billion since November 2021, according to Forbes, and blowing away the previous record of $58.6 billion set in 2000 by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son.
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True or False? Elon Musk fathered triplets in 2006.
Answer: Elon Musk and his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, had twins in 2004, followed by triplets in 2006, before divorcing in 2008. They officially share custody of their children. Musk reportedly had another set of twins in November 2021, with Shivon Zilis, a director at one of his companies, according to court documents…
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in BusinessWho’s Twitter’s largest shareholder?
Answer: On Apr. 4, 2022, an SEC filing revealed that Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and the world’s wealthiest person, had purchased a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter. Twitter will now have Musk as its largest shareholder, ahead of Vanguard, which owns 8.8 percent, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s former chief…
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in TechnologyAs of mid-March 2022, what’s Ukraine’s Most-Downloaded App?
Answer: On March 14, 2022, Elon Musk’s Starlink app became the most downloaded app from the Apple App Store in Ukraine, and it remained in the top spot in the days after, according to Sensor Tower, which tracks downloads. Starlink enables video calls, online gaming, streaming, and other high-data-rate activities thru Musk’s SpaceX satellites. The…
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in SpaceHow many “Starlink” satellites did Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch into space by the end of 2021?
Answer: SpaceX has launched more than 1,700 low-orbiting “Starlink” satellites by the end of 2021. The European Space Agency called for coordinated action to ensure that SpaceX’s constellation did not prevent others from launching their satellites. The company eventually plans to have 42,000 satellites orbiting the planet. More details inside.
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in BusinessWho is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021?
Answer: Time magazine has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year for 2021. Musk, the founder and CEO of the space exploration company SpaceX, recently passed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s wealthiest person.
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in BusinessWhat year saw Tesla break the $1 trillion market worth barrier?
Tesla became the sixth company in US history worth $1 trillion on Oct. 25, 2021. It’s also the second-fastest to achieve that milestone after Facebook. The newly-named Meta Platforms first passed the $1 trillion barrier on June 28, 2021._x000D_
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in BusinessWith which company does billionaire Elon Musk plan to take his first space trip?
Virgin Galactic told the Wall Street Journal Elon Musk had bought a ticket for his own space ride with Richard Branson’s space-tourism company. It is unclear how far up the waiting list Musk is for a seat. In a preflight interview by London’s Sunday Times, Branson said: “Elon’s a friend, and maybe I’ll travel on…
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in TVOn his SNL appearance, Elon Musk claimed he was what?
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk told viewers of the US comedy sketch series Saturday Night Live (SNL) on May 8, 2021, he was ‘”the first person with Asperger’s'” to host the show. It is probably the first time Musk has spoken about his condition._x000D_
