Introduction:
Elon Musk is a South African-Canadian-American businessman and engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Tesla Company, which is world-famous for making its electric cars. Along with this, he is the founder and CEO of SpaceX company. Besides, Musk is the chairman, co-founder, and CEO of Open AI, Nuralink, and The Boring Company.
Biography:
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| Elon Musk biography&wiki |
- Name - Elon Musk
- Full Name - Elon Reeve Musk
- Nick Name - Teflon Elon
- Date of Birth - 28 June 1971
- Birth Place - Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
- Age (in 2022) - 51
- Education - BSC (Physics), BA (Economics)
- School & Collage Name - Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario Canada, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Wharton School of Business
- Hometown - Pretoria, South Africa
- Martial Status - Married
- Controversy - Elon Musk announced the purchase of Twitter on April 14, 2022. But now for some reason, this deal between Musk and Twitter has been canceled. The dispute between Twitter and Musk escalated so much that Twitter filed a court case against Musk.
Early life
Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. His father, Errol Mus was an electric engineer and pilot. And Mother May Musk was a dietitian. Elon completed his early studies in Africa. His parents divorced when Musk was 10 years old. After this, Elon Musk started living in Africa with his father. Elon was very fond of reading books till the age of 12, he liked to get information about new things from books. Musk's favorite subject was computers. He learned about computers with the help of books. Elon made a game by programming on the computer which he named Blast. Elon Musk sold this game to an American company for $ 500.
Education
Elon musk’s education was completed in Canada. When Elon Musk was 17 years old, he wanted to go to America but due to some reasons, he could not go to America. Shortly after, Elon Musk separated from his father and started living with his mother's relatives in Canada. Because his father got married for the second time, after which he could not give time to Elon. For this reason, he refused to live with his father. After this Elon completed his education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario Canada. Elon Musk studied in Canada as well as obtained citizenship there. Musk completed his BSC (Physics) from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. And B.A (Economics) from the Wharton School of Business. After this, Elon took admitted to Stanford University, California in 1995 to do a Ph.D.
Zip 2 Company Formation
In America, Elon got knowledge of the Internet and within two days he withdrew his admission from Stanford University, after which Musk, along with his brother in America, formed a company called Zip2 in 1995, which was Musk's first company. Elon Mask was a 7 percent shareholder in Zip2 Company. This company used to work as a city guide to a newspaper. Later this company was bought by Compaq in 1999 and Elon got $ 22 million according to his stake.
X.com and PayPal
In 1999, Elon started his second company, X.com, which used to do money transactions. At that time a company called Confinity was also doing the same thing which was merged with x.com. After which the name of x.com was changed to Paypal.
Career:
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| Elon Musk companies and their works |
Space X
Elon Musk started thinking outside the common people after his two successes. In 2003, Elon Musk went to Russia where he wanted to take 3 ICBM rockets. There he was getting a rocket for $ 8 million, then Elon thought of making his own rocket instead of buying a rocket from Russia, after which he returned. Elon Musk started studying rocket science to learn about rockets and after about a year he made his own rocket and created the space x company. But his first rocket failed. Musk tried once again but he could not succeed again. This time, instead of buying new rocket parts, Elon thought of manufacturing the destroyed rockets and designing another rocket.
But this time also his rocket failed but he did not invest much in it. He once again made the rocket with the help of the same parts and other new parts. But this time Elon got successful. He designed a rocket at a very low cost and took it to space and surprised everyone, he did what no one had even imagined. Today, NASA also uses rockets made by Elon Musk’s Space X company.
Tesla
Elon Musk's Tesla company is popular all over the world for making electrical cars Tesla not only makes electric cars but also makes charging stations to charge these cars. Tesla cars are electric as well as self-drive through AI. Due to this Tesla cars become futuristic. Tesla owner Elon Musk bought his brother Lyndon Reeve and Peter Reeve's company SolarCity in 2016. Which is today the world's largest solar panel manufacturing company.
Elon Musk announced the purchase of Twitter on April 14, 2022. Musk announced the purchase of Twitter at $ 54.20 per share. Musk wanted to buy Twitter for $44 billion. But now for some reason, this deal between Musk and Twitter has been canceled. Due to this, a dispute started between Twitter and Musk regarding the deal. The dispute between Twitter and Musk escalated so much that Twitter filed a court case against Musk.
Also Read: Elon Musk launched a humanoid robot Optimas
family:
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| Elon Musk with his family and wife |
- Mother - Maye Musk
- Father - Errol Musk
- Brother - Kimbal Musk
- Sister - Tosca Musk
- Wife - Justin Wilson, Talulah Riley
- Girlfriends - Amber Heard, Grimes, Natasha Bassett
- Children - Nevada Alexander Musk, Griffin musk, Vivian Jeena Wilson, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, Damian musk, Saxon musk, Kai musk, X AE A-XII Musk,
companies:
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| Elon Musk all comopanies |
- SpaceX
- Tesla
- Open AI
- Neuralink
- The Boring Company
- SolarCity
House:
Talking about Elon Musk's house, you will be surprised to know that Elon Musk, the CEO of companies like Tesla and Space X, lives on rent. He sold his house in San Francisco for $30 million in 2021. Elon previously lived in SpaceX's $50,000 home in Bocachica.
car collection:
- Jaguar E type
- Tesla roadster
- Audi Q7
- Porshe 911 Turbo
Achievements:
- R&D Magazine Innovator of the Year Award in 2007 for SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity.
- Ink Magazine Ughami Award for Tesla and SpaceX in 2007.
- The Index Award was given in 2007.
- In 2006, Elon Musk was awarded the Product Design Award.
- In 2008 Tesla and SolarCity were awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation.
- Elon was awarded the FAI Gold Space Medal in 2010.
- Elon Musk was honored as a great leader at the Churchill Club Awards in 2011.
- In 2012, Elon Musk was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's highest gold medal.
- In 2016, Elon Musk was ranked 21st in the Forbes list of the world's most powerful people.
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