caption Elon Musk owns over $70 million worth of Los Angeles real estate. source Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has a net worth around $20.1 billion. Musk said in January he will not receive any form of payment or compensation until Tesla reaches $100 billion in market cap. On March 21, Tesla shareholders approved a plan awarding Musk $2.6 billion in stock options that will vest as the company hits key milestones over the next decade. Elon Musk may be the world’s richest rocket scientist. The 46-year-old CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and cofounder of OpenAI has said he won’t be happy until we’ve escaped Earth and colonized Mars. Luckily, he has the mind and the money to make it happen. Despite a massive net worth hovering around $20.1 billion, Musk has never taken a paycheck from Tesla, refusing his $56,000 minimum salary every year. On … [Read more...] about Tesla shareholders just approved a $2.6 billion stock option plan for Elon Musk — here’s how he spends his $20 billion fortune
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Government in Mars will be based on direct democracy, says SpaceX founder Elon Musk
SpaceX founder Elon Musk, on Sunday, said that his company will be ready to fly the first Mars rocket in 2019. Musk made these remarks during a speech at the South by South West (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. He also added that the possible governance on Mars in the future will be based on direct democracy. "I think we'll be able to do short flights, up and down flights, sometime in the first half of next year," said Musk. The first mission is expected to reach on Mars by 2022, and it will carry cargo from earth to the red planet. Eventually, SpaceX rockets will take humans and their belongings to Mars. The ultimate aim of SpaceX is to build a full-fledged colony on the red planet. Musk also revealed that it is very much necessary to take humans to the Red Planet before the trigger of a possible Third World War. The billionaire revealed that a Mars colony will protect the human species from extinction if a nuclear war wipes out the entire living beings from the planet. Musk did not … [Read more...] about Government in Mars will be based on direct democracy, says SpaceX founder Elon Musk
Elon Musk is stepping down from the $1 billion AI organization he helped found
caption Tesla CEO Elon Musk source Mark Brake/Getty Images Elon Musk is leaving the board of the non-profit organization OpenAI. Musk helped found the group, which examines the safety and societal issues of artificial intelligence technology, and he contributed towards its $1 billion in funding. The entrepreneur, who is outspoken about the potential dangers of AI, is leaving to avoid conflicts of interest with his work at Tesla. Elon Musk is stepping down from the board of a $1 billion AI organisation he helped create. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that the billionaire entrepreneur is exiting his role at the company to avoid potential conflicts of interest with his work at Tesla. Founded in 2015 with $1 billion in funding, OpenAI is a non-profit organisation focused on research about artificial intelligence technology and on examining its potential social implications and safety risks. It has developed … [Read more...] about Elon Musk is stepping down from the $1 billion AI organization he helped found
Elon Musk could become the richest man in the world — here’s how he spends his $21 billion fortune
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has a net worth around $21.5 billion. Musk has never received a paycheck from Tesla, refusing his $56,000 minimum salary every year. He now says he will not receive any form of payment or compensation until Tesla reaches $100 billion in market cap. Elon Musk may be the world’s richest rocket scientist. The 46-year-old CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and cofounder of OpenAI has said he won’t be happy until we’ve escaped Earth and colonized Mars. Luckily, he has the mind and the money to make it happen. Despite a massive net worth hovering around $21.5 billion, Musk has never taken a paycheck from Tesla, refusing his $56,000 minimum salary every year. On Tuesday, Tesla announced it would pay Musk nothing for the next 10 years – no salary, bonus, or stock – until the company reaches a $100 billion market cap. If and when that happens, Musk could potentially … [Read more...] about Elon Musk could become the richest man in the world — here’s how he spends his $21 billion fortune
Mustafa Suleyman: The liberal activist who cofounded Google’s £400 million artificial intelligence lab
Mustafa Suleyman is a 33-year-old entrepreneur and activist. He sold his artificial intelligence company DeepMind to Google for £400 million in 2014. Suleyman dropped out of university and worked as an activist before getting involved in artificial intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman is one of the three cofounders of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence (AI) lab in London that was acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported £400 million – the search giant’s largest acquisition in Europe to date. Listen to a few of Suleyman’s talks on YouTube and you’ll quickly realise that he’s a left-leaning activist who wants to make the world a better place for everyone as opposed to an elite few. He differs from many of today’s tech founders in that he genuinely seems to care about the welfare of everyone on the planet. The 33 year old – affectionately known as “Moose” … [Read more...] about Mustafa Suleyman: The liberal activist who cofounded Google’s £400 million artificial intelligence lab