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==Professional background==
==Professional background==
After earning his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, Musk moved to California to found Zip2 in 1995. After Zip2's sale in 1999, he confounded X.com, a online payments site that later merged to form [[PayPal]], which was later acquired by [[eBay]] in 2002. He is listed as CEO and product architect of [[Tesla]], founder, CEO and chief engineer of [[wikipedia:SpaceX|SpaceX]], founder and CEO of [[xAI]], founder and CTO of [[X Corp|X corp.]], a co-founder of [[wikipedia:Neuralink|Neuralink]], [[wikipedia:The_Boring_Company|the Boring Company]], [[OpenAI]], [[wikipedia:Zip2|Zip2]], and [[wikipedia:X.com_(bank)|X.com]] (part of PayPal), and president of the [[wikipedia:Musk_Foundation|Musk Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-05-12 |title=Elon Musk |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260512033801/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk |archive-date=2026-05-12 |access-date=2026-05-12 |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>
After earning his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, Musk moved to California to found {{Wplink|Zip2}} in 1995. After Zip2's sale in 1999, he co-founded {{Wplink|X.com (bank)|X.com}}, an online payments site that later merged to form [[PayPal]], which was later acquired by [[eBay]] in 2002. He is listed as CEO and product architect of [[Tesla]], founder, CEO and chief engineer of {{Wplink|SpaceX}}, founder and CEO of [[xAI]], founder and CTO of [[X Corp|X corp.]], a co-founder of {{Wplink|Neuralink}}, {{Wplink|The Boring Company|the Boring Company}}, [[OpenAI]], Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal), and president of the {{Wplink|Musk Foundation}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-05-12 |title=Elon Musk |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260512033801/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk |archive-date=2026-05-12 |access-date=2026-05-12 |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>


==Stance on consumer rights==
==Stance on consumer rights==