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Born
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in South Africa, raised by his father, an engineer, and his mother, a nutritionist. -
University
Elon begins his career and gets a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania to study business administration and two degrees in physics. -
Zip2
Along with his brother Kimbal Musk and his friend Greg Curry. Elon Musk was the CEO of Zip2. Zip2 managed the development, hosting and maintenance of websites. For five years he obtained a large number of clients -
X.com
Zip2 was sold to Compaq Computer for $300 million. Two months later, that same year, Musk founded X.com with other people, a company dedicated to doing what we now know as bank transfers. -
PayPal
eBay buy PayPal (X.com) by 1500 millons dolars, Elon was the main stockholder , with the sell he win 150 millons. -
SpaceX
Elon Musk found Space X (Space Exploration Technologies) of wich is technology and executive director at the moment. The heart of the company its spaces launches with high reliability and low cost. The metod to do that was launching the rocket and bringing back to refuell and launching again. Later in 2008 they will take a contract with NASA to do 12 launches. -
Tesla Motors
Decided to invest 6.3 millions in Tesla Motors, wasn't the only people to invest, but he put the 98% of the financing -
Executive director of Tesla Motors
In 2008 he transform to executive director of Tesla Motors. Later in 2023 will be the most valued car company in the world. -
Solar City
He and his cousin decide to invest in a company called Solar City, whose objective is to extend the use of solar energy at low cost. -
Neuralink , The Boring Company
Between 2015 and 2020 Elon was founded Neuralink and The Boring Company. Neuralink wants to create a form to cure neurological stickness. The Borign company its a company that do tunnels and in the future wants to do a method of transport below of the floor like subway but at high speed.. -
Colonise Mars
Elon Musk has designed a strategy with which he wants, not only to land on Mars and get humans to set foot on it, but to colonize it directly, occupy it. Elon Musk wants to send about 1,000 ships in 2040, 19 years from now.