Elon Musk

Career

1. 2002 – now
   Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)src
   Founder; CEO, CTO & Chairman
   Took the company public on Nasdaq 2026-06-12 at $135; SpaceX acquired xAI (including X) on 2026-02-02
2. 2025 – 2026
   xAI (X.AI Holdings)src
   President, Treasurer & CEO; director
   From the March 2025 X/xAI merger until SpaceX acquired xAI in February 2026. Earlier CEO and director of xAI from March 2023
3. 2025 – 2025
   Executive Office of the President (US)src
   Senior Advisor to the President (special government employee)
   2025-01-20 to 2025-05-30 per the search source; the prospectus confirms only that he previously served as Senior Advisor to the President
4. 2023 – 2025
   xAIsrc
   Chief Executive Officer; director
5. 2022 – 2025
   X (formerly Twitter)src
   Chief Technology Officer; director
   From October 2022 until the March 2025 merger of X and xAI
6. 2021 – 2022
   Endeavor Group Holdingssrc
   Director
7. 2008 – now
   Tesla, Inc.src
   Chief Executive Officer (also Technoking); director
   CEO since October 2008; director since April 2004 (TSLA-10KA-2025)
8. 2006 – 2016
   SolarCity Corporationsrc
   Chairman of the Board
   July 2006 until Tesla acquired SolarCity in November 2016
9. 2004 – now
   Tesla, Inc.src
   Director; one of the founders
   Board member since April 2004; contributed engineering, design, capital-raising and recruiting before becoming CEO

Undated in the sources

• Neuralink Corp.; The Boring Companysrc, Founder and CEO

Not located: Covered from 2002 by the prospectus. The Zip2 (sold to Compaq March 1999) and PayPal (sold to eBay October 2002) years are in the prospectus without start dates

Achievements

• Founded SpaceX in 2002 and has run it as CEO for its whole life, through the June 2026 IPO of 638.9m Class A shares at $135src
• Folded xAI and X into SpaceX in February 2026. The recast FY2025 accounts show $18,674m of revenue and a $4,937m net losssrc
• Also CEO of Tesla since October 2008, and founder and CEO of Neuralink and The Boring Companysrc
• Co-founded Zip2 (sold to Compaq, 1999) and PayPal (sold to eBay, 2002) before SpaceXsrc
• Took a $54,080 salary for 2025 and no other pay. The salary has not changed since 2019src
• Tesla's largest shareholder: 717,112,739 shares beneficially owned (20.3%) at 2025-12-31, including the 2018 award options he exercised in June 2026src
• All 12 tranches of Tesla's 2018 CEO Performance Award vested. The Delaware Supreme Court reinstated it in December 2025 after the Chancery rescission, and he exercised all 303,960,630 options on 2026-06-16src
• Bought 2,568,732 Tesla shares in the open market on 2025-09-12 for about $1.0bnsrc

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, BA Physicssrc
• The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, BS Businesssrc

Background

• Family The prospectus states there are no family relationships among SpaceX's directors or executive officerssrc
• Founder Holds about 91.6% of the Class B stock. Class B elects 51% of the board and he has 84.4% of total voting power after the IPO, so SpaceX is a Nasdaq 'controlled company'. The charter lets only Class B holders remove him as director and chairsrc
• Boards Director of Tesla. Earlier a director of Endeavor Group Holdings (April 2021 to June 2022), of X and of xAIsrc
• Service Served as Senior Advisor to the President of the United States (the prospectus mentions it as a past role). The search source gives the dates as 20 January to 30 May 2025src
• Legal 2018 SEC settlement over the August 2018 'taking Tesla private' posts: neither admitted nor denied, $20m civil penalty, pre-clearance of Tesla statements, and three years off the Tesla chairsrc
• Legal Pampena v. Musk (N.D. Cal.): a March 2026 jury found two of his May 2022 Twitter statements violated Rule 10b-5, and partial judgment was entered against him personally on 2026-04-03src
• Legal On 2026-07-06 Judge Breyer denied his motion to set aside that verdict and to decertify the class, and granted prejudgment interest. The court also found him not liable for one tweetsrc
• Legal In December 2025 the European Commission fined X, xAI, their Irish subsidiary and Musk EUR 120m under the Digital Services Act. They challenged it in the EU General Court in February 2026, and the challenge is pendingsrc
• Family His brother Kimbal Musk sits on Tesla's board (since April 2004) and is not treated as independent; both recuse from Board votes on Elon's pay. Tesla states no other family relationship among its directors and officerssrc
• Legal Tornetta v. Musk: Chancery rescinded the 2018 Tesla award in January 2024. The Delaware Supreme Court reversed on 2025-12-19 and awarded Tesla $1 in nominal damages; plaintiff's counsel got about $65msrc
• Legal The SEC sued him in January 2025 over the late disclosure of his 2022 Twitter stake. He agreed in May 2026 to settle it, with his revocable trust paying a $1.5m civil penaltysrc
• Legal Named with Tesla in an August 2025 securities class action (W.D. Tex.) over Autopilot, FSD and Robotaxi statements, covering purchases from April 2023 to June 2025. Tesla's motion to dismiss was pending at the Q2 2026 10-Qsrc
• Other Tesla related-party dealings in 2025: $4.8m to a Musk-owned security company, $430.1m of revenue (mostly Megapacks) from xAI, $143.3m of revenue from SpaceX, $3.3m of advertising on X, and SpaceX aircraft use. Tesla invested about $2.0bn in xAI in January 2026, which became SpaceX Class A stock on 2026-03-12src
• Other Related-party dealings disclosed: a Musk-owned security company ($4m of SpaceX expense in 2025), an xAI lease from Musk Industries LLC ($2m in 2025), maintenance of a company aircraft by his affiliate Craft Aviation ($3m in 2025), and reimbursed business use of his personal aircraftsrc