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Elon Musk grew up in Pretoria South Africa
He lived here for most of his child hood before moving to Canada to attend college. -
Elon Musk's parents divorce
His parents divorced when he was at the age of 10. -
Elon develops an interest in computers
Elon Musk found an interest in computers and he began to mess with them. -
Elon creates his first game, Blastar
With his new found interest in computers Elon took to coding his first game. -
Elon Musk moves to Canada to attend the Queen's University
He attended this university to get his basic classes done with. -
Elon attends the univeristy of Pennsylvania
He attended this university to study business and physics. After 2 days of attending he dropped out to hop on the internet boom. -
Elon and his brother start Zip2
A web company that provided city guide software. -
Elon musk starts up X.com
X.com was an e-payment company. eBay bought this company in 2002. X.com was what would be come PayPal after eBay's purchase. -
Elon Musk founds SpaceX
He created SpaceX to reduce space travel and enable the colonization of mars. After getting the funds from his sale of X.com He started this company. -
Musk founds Tesla
Musk creates the company Tesla Motors. His goal was and still is to transform the automotive industry. This company creates electric cars as well as batteries and generators. -
Elon Musk invested 10 million into solar city
Elon became this solar electricity company's chairman. He hoped to optimize solar technology and make it more widespread and efficient. -
SpaceX makes history.
Even after three failed launches Musk did not give up. He pooled resources for a fourth flight and he succeeded. The rocket launched without failure. It made history because it was the first commercially launched space craft. -
Elon partners with NASA
After Elon's success with his falcon 9 rocket NASA reached out. They gave him a 1.6 billion dollar contract to fly 12 flights. The rocket would carry their space craft to the ISS -
Elon has an ambitious project planned
Elon came up with an idea for a hyper loop rail system. He proposed the 800-mile-per-hour transportation tube concept called the Hyperloop. Musk claimed the system could transport passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour. This project is still underway or at least on paper. -
Elon Musk becomes the richest man in world
After a boom in his stocks of tesla he was able to gain a very very large sum of money. He has a net worth now of over 195 billion dollars.
