The rollercoaster rise of Elon Musk: Billionaire Tesla founder left behind troubled South African childhood with an 'evil' father to become world's richest man and father of SEVEN kids with two women – as he launches $43b Twitter takeover bid
Musk is attempting to expand his booming business; the SpaceX founder (pictured inset today), 50, announced on Wednesday that he wanted to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion. According to Bloomberg, Musk is currently the wealthiest person in the world – with a net worth of around $260 billion. But how did Musk go from a nerdy child living in South Africa with an absentee mother and emotionally abusive father to the richest man on Earth? As he gears up to potentially purchase Twitter and expand is already-enormous list of business ventures, FEMAIL has taken a look back at his career.