Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and company builder best known for leading SpaceX and Tesla and for co-founding Neuralink, OpenAI, The Boring Company, Zip2, and X.com. At Neuralink, he helped launch a neurotechnology company focused on implantable brain-computer interfaces intended to restore autonomy for people with severe neurological impairments. Musk’s broader work spans electric vehicles, reusable rockets, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, payments, and consumer internet platforms.
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linkedinNeuralink | LinkedInNeuralink | 412,257 followers on LinkedIn. Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers. | Neuralink is a neurotechnology company building a generalized input/output platform for the brain. Our work has the potential to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs and fundamentally transform how humans interact with the world. Our core technology is an implantable brain-computer interface with ultra-thin, flexible electrode threads placed precisely by a surgical robot, enabling high-bandwidth, bidirectional interaction with neural signals.
Lightspeed Venture PartnersNeuralinkInvestor profile describing Neuralink’s fully implanted, wireless, high-channel-count BCI goal and listing Elon Musk as CEO.
TechCrunchElon Musk invested early in DeepMind just to keep tabs on the progress of AI | TechCrunchElon Musk is a well-known harbinger of the potential for ill held by AI. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also helped start OpenAI. Musk, it turns out, was in on the AI train early with an investment in DeepMind. Musk wasn't in DeepMind for a return, as is the case with most investments; he wanted access to greater insight regarding DeepMind's progress, and the progress of AI in general.
the GuardianElon Musk says he invested in DeepMind over 'Terminator' fearsThe Tesla Motors CEO, who was an early investor in AI firm, says he worries about a 'Terminator' scenario. By <b>Alex Hern</b>
2026 replatformMark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Ashton Kutcher Invest In A.I. FirmThe actor has joined together with tech billionaires to invest in Vicarious FPC, which hopes to build a “computer that thinks like a person"
TechCrunchStealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders | TechCrunchThere isn't much information out there about Stripe, a new payments startup cofounded by brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison (last seen selling their startup Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million). It's an online business to business and business to consumer payments provider, we've confirmed. "How is it different than PayPal or Google Checkout?" I asked someone who's seen the product. Their answer - "It doesn't suck."
TechCrunchSequoia-Backed Stripe Wants To Disrupt The Online Payments Space | TechCrunchIn March, we wrote about Stripe, a new payments startup cofounded by brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison. The stealthy company was tackling online business to business and business to consumer payments, and had already received $2 million in backing from a number of all-star investors including PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, as well as Sequoia Capital, Andreesen Horowitz and SV Angel This week, Stripe actually launched to the public and we now have more details on how the startup plans to disrupt a space dominated by PayPal and others. Stripe, which has been in private beta, is a more developer friendly, easy to use payments platform. The platform supports Ruby, PHP, Python, you don't need a merchant account or gateway and Stripe will handle everything, including with storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to a bank account.
TechCrunchElon Musk used to say he put $100M in OpenAI, but now it's $50M: Here are the receipts | TechCrunchElon Musk used to say he put "the first $100 million" into OpenAI, but now he's only saying roughly $50 million - why? We have the answer.
Tesla Investor RelationsElon Musk | Tesla Investor RelationsOfficial Tesla biography supporting Musk’s roles at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter/X, The Boring Company, and Neuralink.
OpenAIOpenAI and Elon MuskOfficial OpenAI page discussing Musk’s early role and funding commitment discussions.
OpenAIElon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profitOpenAI page supporting Musk’s 2018 departure from OpenAI’s board and early funding history.
- Fintech / payments infrastructureStripePayments infrastructure company for internet businesses.
- Artificial intelligenceDeepMindArtificial intelligence research company acquired by Google.
- Artificial intelligenceVicariousArtificial intelligence company focused on machine intelligence and general-purpose learning systems.
- Artificial intelligenceOpenAIAI research and deployment company building frontier models and products such as ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, Sora, and Codex.
Musk’s experience building capital-intensive, regulated, hard-technology companies such as SpaceX and Tesla fits Neuralink’s blend of medical devices, robotics, neuroscience, software, and long-horizon technical risk. His background in scaling engineering organizations and financing ambitious technology platforms is directly relevant to Neuralink’s clinical-stage brain-computer-interface roadmap.