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Date of Birth
Born in Pretoria, south Africa 1971 -
divorced
Elon made the decision to live mostly with his father after the divorce of his parents in 1980. -
University of Pennsylvania
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. -
dropped out of collage
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. -
Co founds x.com(PayPal)
In that same year, he sold zip2. He also co-founded PayPal. This changed the way that people pay payments online -
PayPal- SpaceX
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. -
Invests in Tesla Motors
He started investing early in Tesla Motors, Inc. the company that makes electric vehicles (now Tesla, Inc.). -
CEO of Tesla
In 2008, he was appointed CEO and went on to become chairman and product architect. -
Makes Tesla public
raises money for the development of electric vehicles -
Buys SolarCity
Merges SolarCity with Tesla to create a comprehensive clean energy company -
bought Twitter (now X)
Transforms social media platform.