Billionaire Elon Musk has snapped up Twitter for a cool £35billion – after the Tesla and SpaceX mogul was recently named the world’s richest man.
But just how much do you know about the eccentric 50-year-old magnate?
Here, as he takes control of the social media giant, James Moore has crunched the numbers to reveal all the key digits, including some of his personal favourites.
0…how many homes he claims to own, having sold them to couch surf with pals.
1…dollar a day. How much he spent on food while studying at college in Canada.
2…is for the days he spent at Stanford University in the US studying physics before dropping out to start up online directory business Zip2.
3…number of times he’s been divorced, once from author Justine Wilson and twice from actress Talulah Riley.
7…number of children Musk has.
12…his son born in 2020, with the singer Grimes, was initially called X Æ A-12 named after the CIA’s A-12 Lockheed reconnaissance plane. It was later changed to X AE A-XII, for legal reasons.
17…age he left South Africa, where he was born to model Maye and engineer Errol. He had two siblings. Musk was hospitalised after being bullied at school.
