Founded 2002. CEO and Chief Engineer from day one. First private company to orbit (2008), dock ISS (2012), land a booster (2015), and fly crew (2020).

Full vertical integration from propellant to avionics. Merlin and Raptor engines in-house. Reusable-booster thesis pursued through 12 failed landings. Launch cadence: 1/year (2008) to every 2–3 days (2024).

Falcon 9: 400+ launches, 95%+ reuse, 10x cost reduction. Starlink: 7,000+ satellites, largest constellation ever. Valued at $350B (2024).

Lead investor 2004, CEO from 2008 during near-bankruptcy. Built from a two-car project into the world's most valuable automaker.

Master Plan: each model funds the next. Four Gigafactories on three continents. FSD shipped as continuous software, not a fixed release. Vertically integrated batteries, motors, silicon, charging.

7M+ vehicles delivered (1.8M in 2023), first EV to cross 20% gross margin, first automaker past $1T. Every major OEM announced an EV transition within 5 years of Model 3.

Founded 2023 to understand the true nature of the universe. Shipped Grok within 6 months, one of the fastest foundation-model companies to production.

Built Colossus (100K H100 GPUs) in 122 days from concept to training start. Integrated Grok directly into X for real-time data and distribution to 500M+ users.

Colossus in 122 days, a pace the industry called implausible. Grok reached ChatGPT-level benchmarks within 18 months. xAI valued at $50B (2024).

Founded 2016 to build high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces. Co-leads engineering on the N1 implant, surgical robot, and electrode array.

Shipped N1 chip with 1,024 electrodes and a precision surgical robot. FDA Breakthrough Device designation and IDE approval (2023) after five years of primate trials.

First human implanted January 2024; full cursor control in 30 days. Second patient mid-2024, expanding to speech restoration. Valued at $5B (2023).