About 'Elon Musk'.
About 'Elon Musk'. Elon Musk cof ounded the electro nic payment firm PayPal, and in 2002 he founded SpaceX, a company that makes rockets and spacecraft . He was a major early funder of Tesla, which makes electric cars and batteries, and became its chief executive officer in 2008. He purchased the social media service Twitter in 2022.