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Elon Musk
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Birth and young life
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa to a Canadian mother Maye and a South African father Errol. He spent his early childhood with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca. His parents divorced when Elon was 10 during this time he really got into computers. At the age of 12 he sold his first game called Blastar. https://www.investopedia.com/university/elon-musk-biography/elon-musk-early-life-and-education.asp -
Education
When Elon was 17 he left South Africa to study at the Queen's University in Canada, he also left to avoid military service. After 2 years he left to study at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a Bachelors in Economics and Physics. He then moved to study at the University of Stanford he left after 2 days to take advantage of the internet boom. Elon moved to Canada first because he could get Canadian citizenship more easily than American because his mom was Canadian. https://www -
PayPal
In 1999, Elon founded X.com a online payment and financial service and a year later X.com aquired another online financial company and formed PayPal and in October of 2002 eBay bought them for 1.5 billion dollars because they were outcompeting them on eBay. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159 -
Marrige
Elon has been married 2 times. He married Justine Wilson in 2000. He divorced Justine Wilson and Married Talulah Riley in 2010. They divorced in 2012 and remarried in 2013 and Elon divorced from her again in 2016. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159 -
Children
Elon's first born son Nevada was born in 2002 and died when he was 10 weeks old. From sudden infant death syndrome. Since then he has had 2 boys that are twins named Griffin Musk and Xavier Musk in 2004. and 3 more that are triplets named Kai Musk, Saxon Musk and Damian Musk in 2006. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159
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SpaceX
In 2002 Elon Musk founded his third company SpaceX. They wanted to build rockets for commercial travel. In 2008 they got a contract from NASA to send a rocket to the international space station. and on May 22, 2012 they launched the rocket and made history being the first private company to every bring cargo there. In March 2017 they successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket, but in November of 2017 one of their new Block 5 Merlin engines blew up and luckily nobody was hurt. F 2018 FHeavy launched -
Tesla
Elon Musk is the co-Founder the CEO and product architect at Tesla Motors. His goal for the company is to mass produce reasonably priced electric cars. They also make Solar roofs and batteries. In 2008 they released the Roadster which is a electric sports car with a 3.7 second 0-60 time and 250 miles of range on its lithium ion battery. In April 2017 Tesla surpassed General Motors as the most valuable American car company. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159 -
Hyperloop
The Hyperloop is an idea that Elon Musk had to change transportation. The idea behind it is to create a airtight tube. Then to remove all the air making a vacuum, to remove air resistance. Then to propel pods through it at an upwards of 700 Mph. The only problem is that it would be very expensive to build. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159 -
Boring company
The boring company is a infrastructure company founded by Elon in 2017 to try and get rid of traffic issues in Los Angles they plan to do so by boring out tunnels in the ground for cars to also go through in addition to traditional road. They also sold flamethrowers to raise money and sold their first 10,000 for $250 on the first day. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159
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Elon's money
Elon Musk in December of 2017 was worth over 21 billion dollars. Elon made his first billion when he sold PayPal to eBay. He is the wealthiest South African by net worth. And he is the richest rocket scientist alive. https://www.biography.com/people/elon-musk-20837159
