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ELon Musk has lost $100bn in 2022, and would shed an additional $44bn with the demise of Twitter.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Elon Musk is a businessman, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of Twitter, and has been estimated to be the world’s richest man. He was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, and after studying at University of Pennsylvania embarked on a career as an entrepreneur, co-founding Zip2, a software company that was bought for $300m in 1999.
ELon Musk has lost $100bn in 2022, and would shed an additional $44bn with the demise of Twitter.
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