Some Lesser Known Facts About Shivon Zilis

• Shivon Zilis works as a Canadian AI researcher and venture capitalist who has been appointed director for Operations as well as Special Projects at Neuralink, a brain-chip company that is owned by Elon Musk. According to reports, her mother is Elon Musk‘s secret twins, who were born in the month of November 2021.

• Zilis was a star in the ice sport during her school years and was pursuing an ice hockey scholarship in order to gain acceptance into Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She won a sports scholarship as well as won an academic award because of her excellent marks during her high school exams.
• Zilis was on the Yale women’s hockey team as a goalie. She was also credited with having one of the highest saving rates.
• While at Yale University, Shivon not only played ice hockey, he also played drums and guitar.
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• Being a lover of reading, Shivon was drawn toward Artificial Intelligence following her reading of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. It was the Canadian group Our Lady Peace that inspired Shivon to go back and go through the book.
• While Shivon initially considered returning home to Canada from Connecticut after having graduated, Shivon became intrigued by the story of technological development across America. U.S. and the idea of working for an American technology giant. In 2007 she was hired by IBM which is an American multinational technology company as a Thought-Leadership Analyst.
• Then, she joined IBM’s micro-finance program the course of which, she travelled across the globe. While travelling to countries such as Peru or Indonesia, Shivon helped to establish systems to offer smooth financial services to small-sized businesses as well as organizations from developing countries. She was working on internal strategies for about two years, developing strategies for mobile finance, China banking solutions strategy, Smarter Planet portfolio solution strategy, and overcoming the problems with consumer payments.

• Moving to the entrepreneurial aspect of her job, Zilis got involved in providing business solutions as well as facilitating collaborations with startups.
• In March of 2011, she launched Bloomberg Beta along with Roy Bahat, Karin Klein, and James Cham; Bloomberg Beta is a start-up venture capital that is backed with the help of Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg Beta utilizes “machine intelligence..’

• Shivon was appointed to the Board of the Global Community Charter School in June 2012.

• Shivon has become the first Charter member of C100 in March of 2014; C100 is a non-profit member-driven group that promotes Canadian investment and technology entrepreneurship.
• She was an Executive Board Member in several large organizations, including Vector Institute Toronto, Canada, and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), Alberta, Canada.
• Shivon was also an Associate at the Creative Destruction Lab.
• In the year 2016, Shivon began working as an advisor for OpenAI an organization that is a non-profit created by Elon Musk. In 2020, she was one of the Board members of the organization. She is among the youngest members of the organization.

• Then she then joined Neuralink which is a company in neurotechnology that designs neuro machine interfaces that can be implanted into the brain.
• She was also a project manager for Inc.’s Autopilot product and chip design team at Tesla from 2017 until 2019.

• In her free moment, Shivon Zilis likes skiing and hanging out with friends.

• She loves animals and has discussed the subject on a variety of platforms.

• She is awed by the philosophical works that were developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and David Hume.
• Interview with Shivon Shivon said that she was born with big blue eyes from her mom.
• As of 2015, Zilis has been included on 2015’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list for venture capital.
• Her name has been mentioned in a variety of other lists of awe-inspiring quality, including Facebook’s “35 under 35.
• Shivon, as well as Elon Musk, came together first in the year 2016 after Shivon was a part of OpenAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. Then, in the summer of 2022 it was discovered through legal documents Shivon and Musk were parents to twins (born in the month of November 2021) one month before Musk’s ex-partner Grimes (Canadian artist and musician) had their second child. Elon previously had twins and triplets from his former spouse, Justine Wilson (author). After the announcement of his secret twins with Zilis was revealed, Elon made a tweet to show his support for large families. Elon tweeted:
• Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do.” On the other hand, Shivon Zilis deleted her Instagram account as soon as the news went viral.
• According to Court documents, Shivon Zilis is living with Elon Musk. They live in Austin.
• According to reports, Musk and Zilis approached the Travis County, Texas court in July 2022, to have the names of their children’s parents changed. Through their documents, they requested the court to include Elon Musk’s name in the name of their children. They also asked the court to incorporate Zilli’s name into their children’s middle names.

• Zilis is frequently seen supporting Musk On Twitter. She is often in agreement with his opinions on topics such as utopia, zero-sum games, and the human race. Zilis had a time when she altered her profile on Twitter to reverse chronological after Musk was a proponent for it.

• in 2020 Musk received a lot of criticism for his move to relocate Tesla away from California because of the restrictions of Covid-19. Shivon addressed her critics with a tweet. In response to a hateful tweet by Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, who is a Member of the California State Assembly, Shivon Zilis tweeted:
• This makes me sad. No one’s perfect but I’ve never met anyone who goes through more personal pain to fight for an inspiring future for humanity – and has done so tirelessly for decades. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion but mine is that there’s no one I respect and admire more.”

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