[FuriouslyAdrift]

Musk was not born into wealth and lived in squalor in Canada with his divorced mother at one point. He self-made his wealth when his first company (with his brother Kimbal) was bought by Compaq during the dotcom boom of the early 1990's. He rolled that cash into his next company, x.com, which merged with Confinity to create a little company called Paypal.

[status200]

Elon "funding secured / sued by the SEC" Musk was absolutely born into wealth. His father co-owned an Emerald mine in Zambia, he went to a private high school in Pretoria, and attended Universities in South Africa and Pennsylvania.

Further reading: "As a result of this, the teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father said: “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe,”"

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20211215175402/https://www.indep...