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The Birth of Elon Musk
Elon Musk was born to a model and an engineer in South Africa, not knowing that one day he would be a billionaire -
Elon Immigrates
Elon immigrated to at age of 17 to Canada to attend Queen's University but transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he received his economic degree from Wharton School and a degree in physics from College of Arts and Sciences. -
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His First Sale
After dropping out of Stanford University in 1995 to pursue a business career and founded Zip2, a software company for the new internet, which he sold to Compaq for 340 million dollars in 1999 when he was only 28 -
X.com to PayPal
After his first sale most people would throw in the towel and live lavishly. Elon however started another online business, known as "X.com." which was acquired and became PayPal. -
SpaceX
By far one of Elon's most ambitious company, Space X, was a private space exploration with the intent for commercial space travel -
More Money
Elon worked on PayPal for 3 years when PayPal caught the attention of eBay. eBay acquired PayPal for 1.5 billion dollars in stocks. Elon owned 11% of PayPal.s stocks so he earned 165 million dollars from the sale. Elon however was still unsastified -
Tesla
Another ambitious company co-founded by Elon, Tesla Motors, was a car manufacturing company which focused solely on affordable and effective electric cars to help the environment. It almost when bankrupt and had to be made into a public company to sustain itself. -
Solar City Acquistion
Solar City, another company made by Elon Musk's cousins, which was a plant in Hawaii which made enough power a day to sustain near by neighborhoods, military bases, and buildings. It was bought by Tesla to make both companies more effective. -
The First Reusable Rocket
SpaceX produced the very first reusable rocket which flew to the ISS to resupply it and landed itself at Cape Canaveral. After many many failed attempts and many rockets blown up he finally made a successful one.
