Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the
Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked (co-)first on the
Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. He has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed by
Forbes as the 40th-richest person in the world.