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Elon Musk: Self-Made Billionaire
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Elon Musk: Self-Made Billionaire
Strategies
In order to meet the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of Elon in today's classroom, the teacher would need to accelerate and enrich the curriculum. When done with any work in the classroom, he should be given time for personal interests. Another way to provide learning experiences for Elon in the classroom, the teacher could begin investigations and explorations and allow time for him to present it to the class.
Achievements
- Co-founded PayPal
- Founded SpaceX
- Biggest shareholder at SolarCity and also co-founded Tesla Motors. The underlying motivation for funding both SolarCity and Tesla is to help combat global warming.
- Hyperloop: a subsonic air travel machine that stretches approximately 350 miles
Sources
- Belfiore, Michael (2007). "Chapter 7: Orbit on a Shoestring". Rocketeers. HarperCollins. pp. 166–95.
- Elon Musk, "The World's Billionaires", Forbes, March 2013.
- The Unveiling of the Tesla Motors Electric Car. Autoblog. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- "The 2010 Time 100". Time. 12 October 2013.
- 75 Most Influential People: Elon Musk". Esquire. 12 October 2013.
Opportunities
Public Opinion and Definitions
- Graduated from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in business and a second degree in physics. (Belfiore)
- He moved to California to pursue a Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space. (Belfiore)
- Elon is known for being blunt and very transparent.
- Listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 people who most affected the world in 2010. Jon Favreau, director of the Iron Man movies, describes in his article how Musk was the inspiration for Favreau's film depiction of genius billionaire Tony Stark.
- Named as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine.
Individual Description
- Born in apartheid-era South Africa, a Third World country.
- Was a voracious reader, spending hours reading comic books and the fantastic works of Tolkien.
- At age 10, Elon bought his first computer and by age 12 he had taught himself computer programming.
- At age 17, Elon left home to avoid serving in the pro-apartheid South African military.
- Elon's motivation was "important problems that would most affect the future of humanity: the Internet, clean energy, and space." (Kurlyandchik)
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