Elon Musk’s Family Tree - DNA from Mars
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Billionaire Elon Musk has been disrupting many industries with his countless innovations. He recently hit the headlines again with Tesla’s $1.5 Billion Bitcoin adoption. The price of the cryptocurrency subsequently rose to an all-time high of $50,000. Interestingly, it’s not just Elon. The Musk family has been disrupting industries for 100+ years starting with the great grandmother!
Summary & Highlights
Dr. Almeda Haldeman Wilson: Canada’s first-ever chiropractor
Elon’s great grandmother with whom the Musk legacy began.
Dr. Joshua Almeda, doctor politician explorer chairman of the social credit party
Elon’s grandpa: He and his wife both made history as the first people to ever fly a single-engine plane from South Africa to Australia exploring uncharted territories
Errol Musk, Elon Musk's father, is an engineer from South Africa.
Errol Musk, according to Elon, has a genius-level IQ and was reportedly the youngest person to earn a professional engineer's qualification in South Africa. Lots of interesting stories out there about him.
Maye Musk, Elon Musk's mother, is a dietitian and model.
Maye Musk has been modeling for over five decades, since age 15. She has appeared on boxes of Special K cereal and the cover of Time magazine and has walked in shows at New York Fashion Week, according to The New York Times.
In 2017, Musk became a CoverGirl spokesperson at age 69.
Maye Musk was married to Errol Musk until 1979, and she has described the relationship as abusive. After they divorced, Maye Musk moved to Canada along with her three children, where she built a business as a dietitian.
Kimbal Musk is Elon Musk's younger brother. He's a restaurateur and philanthropist.
Musk moved from South Africa to Canada along with Elon Musk when he was a teenager, eventually founding Zip2 with Elon and selling it for $307 million in 1999. He was an investor in PayPal and currently sits on the board of Tesla and SpaceX.
Kimbal Musk went on to enroll in the French Culinary Institute in New York, and after breaking his neck in a tubing accident in 2010, decided to devote his career to food, according to The New York Times.
Kimbal has been married twice: first to Jen Lewin, with whom he created The Kitchen Restaurant Group and Big Green. They have three children together — two sons named Luca and August, and a third child whose name is unknown.
He married Christiana Wyly, the daughter of ex-billionaire Sam Wyly, in 2018 at an "intimate" wedding in Dallas.
Tosca Musk, Elon Musk's younger sister, runs a streaming service called Passionflix.
Tosca Musk has been producing movies since 2001 and has made more than 30 to date, according to her IMDb page.
She is currently the co-founder and CEO of Passionflix, a streaming service for movies that have been adapted from romance novels. Musk founded the company in 2016 and has raised over $4 million from investors that include Kimbal Musk.
Musk is unmarried and has two children, twins named Isabeau and Grayson.
Lyndon Rive is the cofounder of SolarCity and Elon Musk's cousin.
Lyndon Rive, along with his brother Peter, cofounded SolarCity in 2006. He served as the company's CEO until after the company was acquired by Tesla for $2.6 billion in 2016. Rive stayed on as the head of sales for Tesla's energy division until 2017.
Prior to launching SolarCity, Rive founded a software company called Everdream with his brothers, Russ and Peter, in 1999. They sold it to Dell eight years later for $120 million.
Peter Rive is also a SolarCity cofounder and a cousin of Musk's. Mark Von Holden/AP Images for SolarCity
Peter Rive, SolarCity's co-founder and CTO, left Tesla eight months after it acquired SolarCity.
In February 2019, both Lyndon and Peter Rive joined Zola Electric, a startup focused on bringing clean, affordable energy to Africa.
Russ Rive is the founder of an art and technical production company called SuperUber.
Russ Rive co-founded a software company called Everdream with his brothers, Lyndon and Peter. He's since co-founded production company SuperUber, which counts Tesla and SpaceX among its clients. There’s certainly no shortage of talent in that family.
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