New Delhi: Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday credited his father for educating fundamentals of “physics, engineering, and construction”. The world’s second richest man mentioned that the educating of his father Errol Musk, a South African politician, “is more valuable than money”.
Musk, who owns a number of firms like Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX mentioned that he has not “inherited anything ever from anyone”, quashing the long-running hearsay which claims his father owns an emerald mine in South Africa and that he has given him monetary help. (Also Read: Top 8 Countries With Highest Inflation)
Errol Musk had beforehand claimed in an interview that he used emeralds from an “under the table” mine in Zambia to finance his son’s escape from South Africa to America. (Also Read: Google I/O Event 2023: Top 5 Launches Expected From The Happening)
Musk mentioned no person has offered him with “a large financial gift” and that his father didn’t assist him “financially after high school in any meaningful way”.
Instead, Musk and his brother needed to financially assist their father after his small electrical/mechanical engineering firm “fell on hard times”, making him “essentially bankrupt for about 25 years”.
“Our condition of providing him financial support was that he not engage in bad behaviour. Unfortunately, he nonetheless did. There are young children involved, so we continued to provide financial support for their well-being,” Musk mentioned.
He once more denied the existence of the emerald mine. Earlier this month, he additionally tweeted: “I will pay a million Dogecoin for proof of this mine’s existence!”
He famous Errol Musk instructed him that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, which he believed “but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence”.
“If this mine was real, he would not require financial support from my brother and me”.
