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Elon Musk

Life overview

Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers. With this money he founded another company called X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal). In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.

Instead of spending all of this money, he used almost all of it to start 2 new companies, which would later revolutionize the world, SpaceX in 2002, Tesla Motors in 2003. I'll go over both of these later in this presentation.

1. Intro

Early life

Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria,

South Africa. As a child, Musk was so lost in his

daydreams about inventions that his parents and

doctors ordered a test to check his hearing.

At about the time of his parents’ divorce, when he was 10, Musk developed an interest in computers. He taught himself how to program, and when he was 12 he sold his first software: a game he created called Blastar.

In grade school, Musk was a short introvert. He was

bullied until he was 15 and went through a growth spurt

and learned how to defend himself with karate and

wrestling.

Early life

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Family

Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, is a Canadian model and the oldest woman to star in a Covergirl campaign. When Musk was growing up, she worked five jobs at one point to support her family.

Musk’s father, Errol Musk, is a wealthy South African engineer.

Musk spent his early childhood with his brother Kimbal

and sister Tosca in South Africa.

He just had his seventh child, X Æ A-Xii

(pronounced "X Ash A 12")

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Education

At age 17, in 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University and avoid mandatory service in the South African military. Musk obtained his Canadian citizenship that year, in part because he felt it would be easier to obtain American citizenship this way.

In 1992, Musk left Canada to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor’s degree in physics.

After leaving Pennsylvania, Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a PhD in energy physics. However, his move was timed perfectly with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his first company, Zip2 Corporation in 1995. Musk became a U.S. citizen in 2002.

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Milky Way To Go!

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