WHO IS ELON MUSK?
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| ELON MUSK |
Birthday: june 28 , 1971
Sun Sign: cancer
Also Known As: Elon Reeve Musk
Born Country: south africa
Born In: Pretoria, South Africa
Famous As: CEO Of Tesla
Born in Pretoria, South Africa Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the son of Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Canada, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot and sailor. March 1981 Interest in Computing His parents divorced when Elon was 10 during this time he really got into computers. At the age of 10, he developed an interest in computing with the Commodore VIC-20 and taught himself computer programming. March 1984 Sold his first video game By the age of 12, Musk sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blaster, to a magazine called PC and Office Technology, for approximately $500. June 1989 Moved to Canada At the age of 17, Elon Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen's University, avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. August 1992 University of Pennsylvania Musk left Canada to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor's degree in physics.
February 1995 Started Zip 2 Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip 2, a web software company that developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry.
The company raised money from a small group of angel investors. February 1999 Sold Zip 2 to Compaq.Compaq acquired Zip 2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options in February 1999. Musk received US$22 million for his 7 percent share from the sale.
March 1999 Co founded X.com Musk co-founded X.com, a financial services and payments company via email. It achieved a high level of security without it being complicated for the user to make the transfer.
March 2000 X.com to PayPal X.com merged with Infinity Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley.
Musk was attracted to Confinity because of its easy payment system. The merged company changed its name to PayPal. January 2000 First Wife Musk married Canadian author Justine Wilson after meeting her while attending the University of Queens. They had six children together but their first son, Nevada, passed away in infancy. May 2002 Founded Space X Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or Space X, with US$100 million of his early fortune. Space X develops and manufactures space launch vehicles with the goal of eventually building more affordable spacecraft that would make it possible to one day reach and colonize Mars. October 2002 eBay acquired PayPal PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk won 150 million USD in eBay shares.July 2003 Tesla is Founded Engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors. Elon Musk came into the project in 2004, leading an investment round in the Startup with a personal contribution of $70 million. Musk participated in designing their first electric car,
which was a Tesla Roadster sports car based on the British Lotus Elise.
July 2006 Co founded Solar City Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for Solar City. Co-founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive, Solar City develops and sells solar panels and solar roof tiles.May 2012 Space X Dragon Space X's vehicle, Dragon docked with the International Space Station (ISS), making history as the first commercial company to launch and berth a vehicle to the International Space Station.September 2014 Tesla Autopilot Tesla Motors announced its first version of Auto Pilot. Its system is capable of lane control with autonomous steering, braking and speed limit adjustment based on signals image recognition. Musk believes that before too long, the software will be good enough that it can operate without active human oversight.
July 2016 Neural ink
Musk co-founded Neural ink, a neuro technology Startup company centered on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain, with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence.May 2016 Space X makes history After many failed attempts, Space X successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea after launching it into space for the first time changing the economics of spaceflight forever.January 2021 World’s richest man Musk is now worth $182.9 billion, which again makes him the wealthiest person on the planet. According to Forbes' estimates, the Tesla chief is now just less than $1 billion richer than Bozos, who falls to the second-richest person in the world.
2025 Mars
Space X intends to land on the Martian surface, starting a project which could colonize Mars in 40-100 years. Musk has said he’d like to die there, if possible – though not on impact.
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