Elon Musk celebrated his birthday with a rocket-shaped cake
"Happy birthday to my wonderful son, who has brought me 55 years of joy," Mrs. Maye Musk, Elon Musk's mother, wrote on Twitter on June 29, currently receiving more than 6 million views.
In the two photos posted by Mrs. Maye Musk, the billionaire is blowing out candles. The birthday party featured two cakes: one in the shape of a Starship rocket complete with candles attached to the tail, simulating an engine starting up; and one has a miniature model of the SpaceX lunar base with symbolic Lego astronauts - an ambition Musk has long wanted to conquer.
In the comments section, many people wished Musk a happy birthday. Investor Cathie Wood and CEO of aerospace company Boom Supersonic Blake Scholl asked the billionaire to "wish for something good" and received the response: "I wished for a bright future for all humanity."
Shivon Zilis, who has four children with Musk and is the Director of special projects at the brain chip company Neuralink, then also posted a photo with a similar scene. "Happy birthday rocket man," Zilis wrote on the same day June 29, posting a photo of the billionaire looking at a birthday cake and holding a long sword.
Zilis has appeared more and more with Musk in recent times, including attending the wedding of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino at Mar-a-Lago in February. According to TechCrunch, the exact nature of their relationship is "quite complicated" as neither of them has publicly announced their feelings. At the trial of Musk suing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in May, when testifying, she said she "had an affair" with the billionaire but did not mention details.
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 into a wealthy family in Pretoria (South Africa) before immigrating to Canada and becoming a naturalized citizen of this country in 1989. In 1995, he moved to California, attended Stanford University, but in 2002 he became a US citizen. He has founded many companies, but currently leads SpaceX in aerospace (including the merger of artificial intelligence company xAI and Twitter social network), Tesla in electric vehicles, Neuralink in brain-neural chips and Boring Company in construction.
According to Business Insider, Musk's 55th birthday took place "in a tumultuous chapter", when SpaceX's famous IPO in the middle of this month helped him become the first trillion-dollar billionaire. The subsequent widespread sell-off pulled him back to the "hundred billion" milestone, but is now back at $1,010 billion, according to the Forbes billionaire index.
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