Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/?i?l?n/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer.[6] He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor,[b] CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[9][10] Also that year, he was ranked 25th on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People,[11] and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019.[12] As of January 6, 2020, Musk�s net worth was estimated by Forbes to US$167.2 billion,[1][13] making him the second-richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos.[14]