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Born in Pretoria, south Africa 1971
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Elon made the decision to live mostly with his father after the divorce of his parents in 1980.
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He received two degrees from the university's Wharton School of Economics: a Bachelor of Science in economics and a Bachelor of Arts in physics.
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He moved to California in 1995 to attend Standford Collage And dropped out after 2 days to Help co-find Zip2, a company that creates software for online city guides. This was his first Major Entreprenurial success. -
In that same year, he sold zip2. He also co-founded PayPal. This changed the way that people pay payments online -
PayPal was purchased by eBay in October 2002 for a sum of $1.5 billion. In the same year, Musk founded SpaceX, a spaceflight services company with $100 million of his money. -
He started investing early in Tesla Motors, Inc. the company that makes electric vehicles (now Tesla, Inc.). -
In 2008, he was appointed CEO and went on to become chairman and product architect. -
raises money for the development of electric vehicles
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Merges SolarCity with Tesla to create a comprehensive clean energy company
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Transforms social media platform.