ELON MUSK
Elon Musk is one of the great
entrepreneurial innovators of our time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0 Early Life and 0 Achievements
1 Education 2
Musk’s Musk’s
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3 es 4 2032
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Early Life and
Education
“When something is important
enough, you do it even if the odds
are not in your favor.”
— ELON MUSK
Musk’s Early Life
Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria,
one of South Africa’s three capital cities. His
father was an engineer, and his mother a
model and nutritionist. He is the oldest of
three children, all high-achievers: His brother,
Kimbal Musk, is a venture capitalist and
environmentalist. His sister, Tosca Musk, is an
award-winning producer and director.
After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived
primarily with his father.
Musk was a self-described bookworm and
smart-aleck by his own account. He read
voraciously, everything from encyclopedias to
Musk’s Education
At 17, Musk moved to Canada to avoid
serving in the South African military,
whose main duty in the late 1980s was
enforcing apartheid. He would later obtain
Canadian citizenship through his mother.
After emigrating to Canada, Musk enrolled
in Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
It was there that he met Justine Wilson, an
aspiring writer. They would marry and
have five sons together, twins and
triplets, before divorcing in 2008.
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Achievements
Musk’s Early
Achivments
When he was only 10, he became
acquainted with programming via
the Commodore VIC-20, an
inexpensive home computer. Before
long, he had become proficient
enough to create Blastar—a video
game in the style of Space Invaders.
He sold the BASIC code for the game
to a magazine called PC and Office
Technology for $500.
Musk’s Notable
Accomplishment
Musk was 24 years old when he
moved to California to pursue a
Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford
University. But, with the Internet
exploding and Silicon Valley
booming, Musk had entrepreneurial
visions dancing in his head. He left
the Ph.D. program after just two
days.
03
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Musk’s Companies
Companies Which Musk Is a CEO
Space
Tesla X.com
X
X.Com
(PayPal)
In 1995, with $28,000 and his
younger brother Kimbal at his side,
Musk started Zip2, a web software
company that would help
newspapers develop online city
guides. In 1999, Zip2 was acquired
by Compaq’s AltaVista web search
engine for a whopping $340 million.
Musk used his Zip2 buyout money to
create X.com, which he intended to
shape into the future of banking.
SpaceX
Musk used much of the proceeds of
his PayPal sale to found Space
Exploration Technologies
Corporation, commonly known as
SpaceX, an interstellar travel
company. By his own account, Musk
spent $100 million to establish
SpaceX in 2002.
TESLA
He contributed funding—about $70 million.
Then, in 2004, Musk joined engineers Martin
Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning to help run
Tesla Motors, where Musk was integral in
designing the Tesla Roadster, an electric car.
Although After Eberhard was ousted from the
firm in 2007, Musk seized management
control as CEO and product architect after a
series of disagreements. Under his watch,
Tesla has become one of the world’s most
popular and coveted car brands.
04
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Musk’s
futuristic
2032
"Will we be on
Mars?"
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