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Biography: Elon Musk

Inventor, Engineer

Elon Reeve Musk is a famous entrepreneur and businessman. who founded X.com in 1999
(which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003 . He born in South
Africa in 1971.He son of Maye Musk a model and dietician from Regina, Canada and
Errol Musk a South African Electromechanical Engineer, pilot and sailor, his maternal
grandmother was British.As an adult Elon has broken relationship with his father.”He
said that your father is a terrible human being” He has a half sister and half brother.

Throughout his childhood, Musk was a avid reader. At the 10 year old he develop a
interest in computing, for the personal computing. At age 17, He studied at the
Pretorya Boy High. In 1989 Elon Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University
and avoid mandatory service in the South African military.

Musk graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics, as well as a Bachelor of Arts


in Economics from the wharton school The two majors speak to the direction Musk’s
career would take later, but it was physics that made the deepest impression on his
thinking.Musk was 24 years old when he moved to California to pursue a PhD in
applied physics at Stanford University. With the internet exploding and Silicon Valley
booming, Musk had entrepreneurial visions dancing in his head. He left the PhD
program after just two days.In 1995, with $28,000 and his younger brother Kimbal at
his side, Musk started Zip2, a web software company that would help newspapers
develop online city guides.He got married with Talulah Riley in 2013. He has six son,
he has had three wives. He live in los Angeles, California US.

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He is famous for his companies, in engineers areas. He recognized for creating


innovate enterprises. He became as a famous person when in In 2008 he became
CEO of Tesla Motors.He bought the majority of the company( 98% ). The most
important event overcame the financial crisis in 2008. I’m sure that the whole life is
amazing but it could be wen in 2018, Elon announced tha Spacex would be sending
its first passenger, Yasaku Maezawa (Japanese billionaire) to the moon by 2023.He
travel between Canada, Us and South Africa.he cemented his standing as a leader
of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President Donald
Trump's administration. In 2012 He was awarded the “a Gold Medal” (For Royal
Aeronautical Society’s highest award)
At the moment the live in los Angeles ,He is 48 year old. He is a chief in Tesla Motors,
OpenAI, SpaceX SolarCty and Boring Company for the future we hope new
development especially in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

I admire elon because he went beyond his studies, he did not settle
with money or your work and for me the most important thing about elon was to change
and take the risk of being different

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