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Elon Musk

Follow selected business milestones from Zip2 to spaceflight, Tesla leadership and the Twitter acquisition.

Primary topic: People

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Scope of this guide

Nine documented public-business milestones, 1995–2022. This is a selected history, not a full biography or live inventory of roles, wealth, ventures or political activity. Company and NASA team achievements are not credited to one person. Later developments remain outside this road’s documented endpoint.

Actual source-review status

9 completed · 0 partial · 0 pending chapter reviews in this subject.

The factual audit is unfinished. These counts come from recorded chapter reviews, not legacy “reviewed” wording, confidence labels or image checks. A completed source review retains scientific and historical uncertainty.

Key chapters

  1. 1995

    An early internet business: Zip2 →

    Musk co-founds a software business serving media companies.

    Chapter source review completed: 2026-10-17 · Codex public-life source review. Scientific uncertainty is retained in the evidence note.
  2. 31 May 2012

    Dragon returns after a station-supply mission →

    SpaceX’s spacecraft completes a major cargo demonstration.

    Chapter source review completed: 2026-10-17 · Codex public-life source review. Scientific uncertainty is retained in the evidence note.
  3. 27 October 2022

    The Twitter acquisition closes →

    Control of the social platform passes to a Musk-controlled parent.

    Chapter source review completed: 2026-10-17 · Codex public-life source review. Scientific uncertainty is retained in the evidence note.

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