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Elon Musk

1971–present

Elon Musk News: Entrepreneur Responds to Criticism Over Salute

Elon Musk sparked outrage this week after he gave a straight-armed salute at the Presidential Parade celebrating President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20. For his part, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is downplaying the controversy.

Addressing a crowd at the Capitol One Arena in Washington D.C., Musk thanked attendees for Trump’s election victory before placing his right hand on his heart and extending his arm over his head with his palm facing down. He then turned around and repeated the move. “My heart goes out you,” Musk then said. “It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured.”

The 53-year-old received significant backlash for the gesture, with many social media users likening it to the Nazi salute, while others disagreed. Musk responded to the criticism later that day, dismissing the comparison. “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks,” he wrote on X Monday night. “The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”

Musk, who campaigned for Trump, is now leading

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Jeff Bezos

1964-present

Who Is Jeff Bezos?

Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and executive chair of the e-commerce company Amazon, owner of The Washington Post, and founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin. Born in 1964 in New Mexico, Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University. After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990, he became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Shaw. Four years later, Bezos quit his lucrative job to open Amazon.com, an online bookstore that became one of the internet’s biggest success stories. He started Blue Origin in 2000, then in 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post. In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods. His successful business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the world; his estimated net worth is $137.9 billion as of May 2023.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Jeffrey Preston Bezos
BORN: January 12, 1964
BIRTHPLACE: Albuquerque, New Mexico
SPOUSE: MacKenzie Scott (1993-2019)
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Mark Zuckerberg

(1984-)

Who Is Mark Zuckerberg?

Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room at Harvard University. Zuckerberg left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than two billion people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire many times over. The birth of Facebook was portrayed in the 2010 film The Social Network.

Early Life

Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a comfortable, well-educated family. He was raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry.

Zuckerberg’s father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home. His mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple's four children — Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle.

Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age; when he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named "Zucknet." His father used the program in his dental office, so that the receptionist could inform him of a new