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Early life
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. At the age of 10, he developed an interest in computing while using the Commodore VIC-20. He learned computer programming using a manual and, by age 12, sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500. An awkward and introverted child. -
Education
Musk attended the University of Pretoria for five months. He stayed there for a year, working odd jobs at a farm and lumber-mill. In 1990, Musk entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in physics. -
Business career "Zip2"
In 1995, Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded web software company Zip2 with funds from a group of angel investors. They housed the venture at a small rented office in Palo Alto. The company developed and marketed an internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry, with maps, directions, and yellow pages. They could only afford one computer and, according to Musk, "The website was up during the day and I was coding it at night, seven days a week, all the time. -
Education "X.com and PayPal"
In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with $10 million from the sale of Zip2. One year later, the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal.The merged company focused on the PayPal service and was renamed PayPal in 2001. In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received $165 million. -
SpaceX
In May 2002, Musk founded his third company, SpaceX . She is a private developer of a series of launch vehicles and a commercial space systems operator. -
Tesla
Tesla, Inc. (originally Tesla Motors) was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until the Series A round of funding. Both men played active roles in the company's early development prior to Musk's involvement. Musk led the Series A round of investment in February 2004, joining Tesla's board of directors as its chairman. -
SolarCity
An American solar-panel power company based in San Mateo, California, a Tesla subsidiary. -
OpenAI
A nonprofit research company based in San Francisco dedicated to artificial intelligence. The company's goal is to develop an open, friendly AI. Elon Musk is one of the founders.
On February 20, 2018, Elon Musk resigned from the Board of Directors of OpenAI due to a possible conflict of interest. -
Neuralink
An American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and planning to develop and manufacture implantable neurocomputer interfaces. -
The Boring Company
An infrastructure and tunneling construction company founded by Elon Musk in 2016. Subway for cars: in the future it will be possible to move along it at speeds up to 240 km / h. Musk believes that it will be much cheaper, faster and more comfortable than the traditional metro and should help fight urban traffic jams. The 1.83 km test tunnel in Los Angeles County opened on December 19, 2018.
