The 10 Richest Folks in Silicon Valley

6. Elon Musk

Elon Musk, born in June the 28^th 1971 in Pretoria is an entrepreneur, engineer and inventor of South African-born naturalized US citizen in 2002 and currently based in Los Angeles. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO, Director architecture company product Tesla Motors, and chairman of the board of the company SolarCity.

He is the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Zip2, PayPal and Tesla Motors. In 2015, he co-founded and co-chairs OpenAI, a nonprofit research organization in artificial intelligence that aims to promote and develop an IA open-source benefiting all mankind.

He comes sixth on the list with a net worth of US$13.9 billion.