Elon Musk
CEO & Chief Engineer — multi-planetary transport and sustainable energy
Summary
Professional summary
First-principles engineer and operator who builds companies where physics, manufacturing, and product velocity matter. Demo profile for illustration only.
Experience
CEO & Chief Engineer
2002 – PresentSpaceX
Hawthorne, CA
- Led Starship program from early prototypes to integrated flight tests, pushing reuse and cadence on orbital-class rockets.
- Built a vertically integrated launch business that cut cost-per-kilogram to orbit by an order of magnitude.
- Scaled production culture across engineering, ops, and supply chain for rapid iteration under hard constraints.
CEO & Product Architect
2008 – PresentTesla
Austin, TX
- Drove Model 3/Y ramp and Gigafactory build-out, turning EVs from niche to mass market.
- Unified hardware, software, and energy products under one product vision.
- Pushed manufacturing automation and design-for-manufacturing across the fleet.
