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Birth
Born in Pretoria, South Africa. -
He created a space video game called Blastar
At the age of 12 he created a video game and sold it to a computer magazine for your benefit. -
He left his birthplace
He obtained his Canadian passport and decided to leave South Africa. -
Studies
Elon Musk attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned two bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. -
Zip2 Corporación
Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford University after just two days of school to start his first company called Zip2 Corporation. the Computer Corporation Compaq bought Zip2 for $ 307 million. -
X.com
Elon Musk started X.com with $ 10 million from the sale of Zip2. X.com was an online bank. The invention of a method of transferring money safely via email from a recipient is credited. -
Paypal
X.com bought a company called Confinity. Elon Musk renamed X.com/Confinity PayPal and dropped the company's online banking focus to focus on becoming a global payment transfer provider. In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $ 1.5 billion and Elon Musk made $ 165 million in eBay stock from the deal. -
SpaceX
He founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to make rockets more affordable. Elon Musk is a long-time member of the Mars Society, a non-profit organization that supports the exploration of Mars. -
Tesla Motors
He co-founded Tesla Motors, of which he is the sole producing architect. The company has built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, the Model S, an inexpensive four-door electric sedan, as well as plans to build more affordable compact vehicles in the future. -
SolarCity
It is a US subsidiary of Tesla, Inc., specializing in solar energy. Provides energy services to homeowners, businesses, and non-profit government organizations. -
OpenAI
Elon Musk announced the creation of OpenAI, a research company to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity -
Nueralink
He created Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup company with the mission of integrating the human brain with artificial intelligence. The goal is to create devices that can be implanted in the human brain and merge humans with software. -
SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule
The Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying up to 7 passengers to and from Earth orbit and beyond. It is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth, and it is the first private spacecraft to bring humans to the space station.