Floki (Dog)
Elon Musk adopted a Shiba Inu puppy named Floki in 2021. Musk’s new puppy had a major impact on the world of cryptocurrency, and as soon as the billionaire shared a photo of his Shiba Inu, the value of Dogecoin went up almost instantly. A crypto token has also been named ‘Floki’, after Musk’s new dog.
The new CEO of Twitter is amazing pic.twitter.com/yBqWFUDIQH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 15, 2023
Schrödinger (Cat)
Elon Musk has an Abyssinian cat named Schrödinger, named after the famous “Schrödinger’s Cat” quantum mechanics thought experiment
Marvin the Martian (Dog)
Elon Musk has a small dog named after the Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian that he got in March 2016. in January 2021, Elon bought Marvin a knitted Marvin the Martian hat on Etsy. After tweeting “I Kinda love Etsy” and photos of the hat, Etsy’s stock rose 10%.
Gatsby (Dog)
Elon Musk is a big fan of Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and named his big rescue dog after him. Gatsby is seen here posing with Marvin. Back in 2018, Elon got a lil’ help training them from Cesar Milan.
Hobbes (Dog)
Elon Musk had a Yorkie named Hobbes, after the philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes passed away at the age of 15 and is seen here with Elon’s mom Maye Musk.
Had an awesome Yorkie for 15 years who I named Hobbes, because he was nasty, brutish & short.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023
I’d tell people “watch out for the dog!”, then they’d see him & laugh, then he would bite them on the ankle.
Elon Musk
Birthday
June 28, 1971 (53)
Links (Tags)
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. A centibillionaire with a net worth of around US$288 billion as of November 2021, Musk is the richest person in the world.
Musk has been the subject of criticism due to unorthodox or unscientific stances and highly publicized controversies. In 2018, he was sued for defamation by a British caver who advised in the Tham Luang cave rescue; a California jury ruled in favor of Musk. In the same year, he was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. He settled with the SEC, temporarily stepping down from his chairmanship and agreed to limitations on his Twitter usage. Musk has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and has received criticism from experts for his other views on such matters as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and public transport.
In May 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes revealed that they were dating. Grimes gave birth to their son in May 2020. According to Musk and Grimes, his name was “X Æ A-12”; however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet, and was then changed to “X Æ A-Xii”. This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet. The child was eventually named “X AE A-XII” Musk, with “X” as a first name, “AE A-XII” as a middle name, and “Musk” as surname. Musk confirmed reports that the couple are “semi-separated” in September 2021; in an interview with Time in December 2021, he said he was single.
Elon is the son of Maye Musk.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2022
