Tesla CEO Elon Musk gets no salary: Unknown facts about world's second richest man

DNA Web Team | Updated: Jan 16, 2021, 12:01 PM IST

Musk became the richest man on planet after his net worth increased more than $150 billion this year and Tesla's share price surged a massive 743%.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently raced ahead of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the richest person on the planet. But Musk did not remain on top for long and Bezos has once again became the world's richest man. Musk became the richest man on planet after his net worth increased more than $150 billion this year and Tesla's share price surged a massive 743 percent last year. 

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Tesla CEO Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa but he moved to Canada when he was just 17. 

Elon Musk has citizenship of South Africa, Canada and the US.

The billionaire businessman is the founder of eight companies namely Tesla, SpaceX, Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company, Zip2, PayPal.

When Tesla CEO Musk was 15-year-old, he learned martial art (karate, judo) and wrestling.

Though Elon Musk the majority owner and CEO of the SpaceX rocket maker he draws no salary from the company.