Elon Musk may be colonizing Mars and reshaping the global economy, but on his 54th birthday, it was a clown cake from a childhood in Pretoria that stole the moment.
To mark the occasion, Shivon Zilis, Musk's partner and a director at Neuralink, posted a striking side-by-side collage on X. On one side, a vintage photograph of a young Musk in South Africa, beaming in front of a colorful clown-shaped birthday cake. On the other, an image of Musk today, celebrating with a painstakingly faithful recreation of that exact same cake, vanilla-based, adorned with bright decorations and a grinning clown face crafted from cream or fondant, matching the original detail for detail.
Zilis captioned the post simply: "Happy birthday, Rocket Man."
