Elon Musk says he had about $100,000 in student debt after college: 'I couldn't even afford a 2nd PC'

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Elon Musk says he had about $100,000 in student debt after college. (via CNBCMakeIt)

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, said he ended up with six figures in student debt after college, in a series of tweets about his education and backstory.

"This is a pretty awful lie," Musk tweeted on Dec. 28. "He didn't own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt. I couldn't even afford a 2nd PC at Zip2, so programmed at night & website only worked during day. Where is this bs coming from?" Soon after Musk left for Canada, his mother, Maye, moved to Canada too, along with Musk's brother, Kimbal, and sister, Tosca, according to the book "Musk's parents were divorced for most of his life. Musk's father, Errol, an engineer,, and Musk was born shortly after. Errol and Maye divorced about nine years later. Errol owned one of the largest homes in Pretoria, South Africa, and took his children on many trips overseas, according to the book.

 

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