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CTOnews.com, May 8, Elon Musk responded to a post on Twitter that falsely claimed that he was from a "wealthy family but in financial difficulties". When he recalled his childhood and birth, he revealed that he was born in a low-income family with a transition to high-middle income and grew up in this environment. Musk claimed that he did not have a good childhood due to lack of financial support.

A user named Dogedesigner tweeted: "Musk came to the United States penniless and graduated with a debt of $100000, even though he had a scholarship and worked two jobs while at school."

In response, Musk wrote a rare long message: "I grew up in a low-income family with a transition to high-middle income, but I didn't have a happy childhood." I haven't inherited anything from anyone, and no one has ever given me a large gift of money. My father founded a small electrical / mechanical engineering company that was successful for 20 or 30 years, but then got into trouble. He has basically been bankrupt for 25 years and needs the financial support of me and my brother. About the so-called 'jadeite mine'. If the mine is real, he won't need the financial support of me and my brother. "

In fact, Wall Street has already dug up a lot of details about Musk's background. Born in South Africa, he is basically the self-made story of a billionaire who left his birthplace and followed his mother to Canada at the age of 17, then emigrated to the United States and completed his studies at a prestigious university.

In a way, his curiosity and experience made him understand the entrepreneurial spirit from a very early age, which enabled him to co-founded a number of successful companies. The problem is that this claim is often questioned by some marketing accounts or netizens, who believe that he comes from a family with a deep background and insist that this is an important reason why he is where he is today.

There is a widespread saying that his family owns an emerald mine in Africa. But Musk has argued more than once that this is a rumor, but it is also hard to clean up. Last month, he said he would provide dog coins worth $1 million (currently about 6.91 million yuan) "to anyone who can prove it."

CTOnews.com notes that this statement was essentially made by his estranged father, Errol, in an interview with the South African edition of Business Insider in February 2018.

In an interview, Errol Musk claimed that he once owned a 50 per cent stake in an emerald mine in Zambia. He also told an unconfirmed anecdote: at the age of 16, Elon Musk and his brother Kimbar sold two emeralds from the mine to Tiffany on Fifth Avenue in New York for $2000.

It was nice to say that, but by 2020 Errol began to regret it. He later posted on Facebook that Musk didn't owe him and that he got to this point entirely on his own. But as we all know, rumors spread on a piece of paper, refuting rumors and breaking legs, which is the main reason why this rumor is still circulating on the Internet today.

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