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Date of Birth
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 -
1st Payment
Elon Musk created and sold the code to a game he made called Blastar, for $500. -
College Attended
He attended Queen's University, and the University of Pennsylvania -
1st Company
Elon and his brother Kimbal started a business called Zip2, which was basically an online yellow pages. -
2nd Company
Elon Musk co-founded X.com an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with money from is Zip2 sale. A year later he merged with Confinity, to merge X.com and Paypal. He was CEO but got kicked for disagreements. He got 165 million dollars from Paypal's 1.5 billion dollar sale to eBay. -
Setback
Elon brought up the idea of "Mars Oasis"; a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars, containing food crops growing on Mars. But as he tried to find people give the the necessities to build a craft to space, he was seen as a novice at the ideas of space and such, and was shooed away. -
Major Accomplishment
Becomes an American citizen -
SpaceX Founded
After realizing making their own materials for space was cheaper Elon made SpaceX. -
Major Accomplishment
SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon rocket back at the launch pad. This was the first time in history such a feat had been achieved by an orbital rocket and is a significant step towards rocket reusability lowering the costs of access to space. -
Elon Musk's Net Worth
Elon Musk's Networth is $13.2 billion. -
Elon Musk Character Traits
Curiosity, determination, intensity, boldness are all traits Elon Musk has. -
Retirement
Elon Musk hasn't retired yet
