Elon Reeve Musk is a South African born American technology entrepreneur, investor and engineer. His passion for computers inspired his education and made him one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Musk was a passionate child who was always interested in computers. He was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. When he was a child, his dreams were about inventions. His mother was Maye Musk who is a supermodel and his father was Errol Musk who is a wealthy electrical engineer. They divorced when he was 10. Musk spent his early childhood with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca in South Africa. At the age of 12 he taught himself how to program and he sold his first video game which is called Blastar.
Elon was an intelligent and a hardworking student accordingly he shaped his future with his goals. Musk moved to Canada to study at a university and avoid compulsory military service in South Africa in 1989. In 1992, he left Canada to study business and physics at Pennsylvania University. After leaving Pennsylvania, he headed to Stanford University to continue a PhD in energy physics.
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He started his career launching his first company, Zip2 Corporation, which inspired him to bring innovation to people’s life. In 1999, after the successful sale of Zip2 to Compaq Computers, he started to create an online financial service called ‘X.com’. Musk became a multimillionaire when he sold his start-up Zip2 to Compaq. In 2002, he invested his millions in his third company which is called SpaceX with the intention of building spacecraft for profitable space travel. After founding SpaceX, he invested in Tesla Motors. Musk is the co-founder, CEO and product engineer at Tesla Motors.
Tesla cars have a powerful battery, which is charged by electricity. In 2010, SpaceX was the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. In this year, the premier world organization for aerospace records, the ‘Federation Aeronautique Internationale’ awarded Musk the ‘FAI Gold Space Medal’. He shares this highest honour with prominent characters like Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. In 2012, SpaceX was the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. He was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People.
Elon Musk is one of the greatest and most creative modern inventors. He is responsible for significant progresses in futuristic technology like renewable energy and space travel. In addition, Musk is not only a successful businessman but also a generous philanthropist and a humanitarian. His innovative and visionary ideas are global and they brought him success and fortune. Despite negative consequences, he has never lost his motivation to make a change.
