HOW ELON MUSK STARTED (sending humans to Mars) << ND, decisions results eo8 circumstances age 9 ft oe 197 a dun 28,1974 a a, born to engineer father and mode! mother ages a) _—_—_ parents divorce, chooses to live with father == gets bullied at school, ‘thrown down a staircase ° father takes him to work and makes him do real work gets Canadian citizenship through mother to eventually move to the US Au a cold calls execs he reads about in the news asking to meet for lunch \ a top exec of bank responds and offers an internship 1994 —*e gets Wharton economies degree (and later physics degree) mf . ‘works two intern jobs: in ultracapacitors research and video games 1995 ° sleeps in office first 3 months 1996 f° raises first investment money ($3M) ‘competes for customers with another banking startup Confinity Mar 2000 iis merges with Confinity forming Paypal ° almost dies from malaria he gets on vacation ies moves to LA to be closer to the space industry Jun 2002 starts SpaceX to build his own rockets (with own money) Jul 2002 son dies from sudden infant death syndrome 10 weeks later ‘Apr 2004 aaa ° invests in Tesla, suggesting JB and Testa founders work together 2004 . twin sons are born through IVF 2nd faunch falls Mar 2008 ais runs out of books to read at library, reads entire Encyclopedia Britannica 2 G4 -« learns BASIC by finishing a 6-month course in 3 days -_ — decides on his life mission - to save humanity age 17 moves to Canada 1989 (age 18) B starts college in Ontario rs shows genius in banking but gets chewed out for using the exec coffee machine 1992 runs a speakeasy from his house in college [Kimball] ee . rainstorms ideas for medical startup with brother on get his adenoids removed by Anna Vital tough childhood in South Africa self-taught programmer acing college founding Zip2 founding Paypal building rockets from scratch juggling SpaceX and Tesla beating the odds, age 3 drifts off as if deaf (he was not) so parents wz ° reads 10 hours per day writes video game Blastar, sells it for $500 age 14 ww has existential crisis - teads The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy looking for an answer . works odd jobs, stays with relatives gets a job shoveling dirt in boiler room for $18/hour mn ° sells computers ‘out of dorm room in et transfers to UPenn double majoring in physics and economics mm — leaves Stanford PhD atter 2 days 1995 Ae gets $28,000 from father to start with 4g e gets pushed out from CEO to CTO by his investors ‘soon after e buys McLaren F1 for $1 Million - soon crashes it argues with CTO over which operating system to use (PC or Linux) +—<$£@ invests more money into Paypal regardless Py «—________« ________¢ learns how to build rockets from books May 2002 [Nevada Alexander] . first son is born Oct 2002 gets $250 Million from sale of Paypal ($180M after tax) Jan 2004 IMarc} (fy Martin} e@ lg meets Tesla founders who pitch exactly what he wanted - electric car Mar 2006, his first ever rocket launches and explodes end of 2008 ee ih ° triplet sons are born Jun 2008 #9 ' ' ' = first Tesla customers: divorces wife get their Roadsters at $109,000 Dec 2008 Sep 2008 '. : wins NASA contract 4th launch for 12 flights for $1.6B succeeds Dec 2008, e@ e e cries realizing SpaceX hours before Tesla just barely escaped would have gone bankruptcy bankrupt - raises funding 2010 dun 2010 ey ‘\ Ho _— + -¢ marries Tesla goes public Talulah Riley at $17 per share promises to send humans to Mars by 2021-2031 Jun 2012 rr starts shipping the model S at $75,000 Sep 2012 A 4 $24 by end of day Sep 2011 e announces reusable rockets (to make cost of space flight 100 times cheaper) May 2012 t% KS MS e Dragon docks with the International Space Station Sep 2012 at a .— > starts Zip2 with brother, coding it himself (hairballs) 1999 fiz e gets $22 Million from sale of Zip2 Mar 1999 o °° starts X.com - an online bank (with his ‘own money) 2000 marries college girlfriend Justine Sep 2000 ey gets ousted as CEO from Paypal (while ‘on honeymoon) Oct 2001 via takes trips to Russia to buy a rocket to send to Mars negotiations fall, realizes rockets are atlificially overpriced thinks about building electric cars 2003 el meets JB Straubel, electric car enthusiast July 2006 ve wins NASA contracts to demo cargo delivery to ISS and make Falcon-9 becomes 1st investor in SolarCity (cousins’ company) ‘Aug 2008 3rd launch fails destroying 4 satellites aboard including NASA's ‘Aug 2008 XN ° SpaceX and Tesla are both running out of cash pr 2009 e unveils the first Tesla Model S Oct 2010 Gao sp buys a car factory for cheap from Toyota's failed joint venture Feb 2012 fe unvells Modal X (suv) i divorces Riley dul 2013 cen °* —<—<— —$§ 9 —_________ starts trying to land dummy rocket Grasshoper vertically from small altitude Apr 2014 attempts to land rocket from orbit ‘onaship Jun 2014 88 oa starts building the Gigatactory to mass produce batteries tocket landing succeeds (ist reusable rocket to reach orbit) end of 2016 launches his largest rocket Falcon Heavy in Musk’s lifetime oe tickets to Mars are now at $500,000 a piece launches supercharger network (for long distance driving) attempts to soft land rocket from orbit on water ‘Ape 2015 e i ° unveils Powerwall Nov 2015) Net] @. © [Elon] av ° challenged by Jeff Bezos who lands a suborbital rocket 2017 e Gigafactory starts production Mars Colonial ‘Transporter launches marries Riley again Aug 2013 @ high-speed rail Sept 2015 first customers get their Model X rocket launch fails (first failure after 19 successful launches) mid 2017 ais ° first customers get their Model 3 = a $35,000 car 2020 bk first Hyperioop trains start running “| would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.” -Elon Musk