Elon Musk

Who is Elon Musk? Lolo

Elon 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.

Early business

Elon Musk sold his first product at the age of 12. It was a video game
that he coded himself. He managed to net $500 in cash after selling it to
a PC publication.

As the Internet began to take shape, Musk created Zip2 with his brother
Kimbal. The purpose of Zip2 was to create city guides that were
available for online newspapers. About five years later, in 1999, Compaq
acquired the software and Musk made off with a cool $300 million.

But Musk was not going to just sit on a pile of money and let it collect
dust. He decided to put it to good use and co-founded online bank
X.com that same year. That merged with Confinity in 2000 to form
PayPal and was subsequently bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

SPACE X

In 2001 Musk turned his attention to space exploration. He started a

creation known as Mars Oasis. His intent was to see whether or not a
miniature greenhouse situated on Mars would allow for the growth of
food crops.
This project was to make space exploration one of the top interests of
the general public. He attempted to start this project with the help of
the Russian aerospace experts and designers. After failing to
convince them for their assistance, Musk took it upon himself to
launch SpaceX.

On May 22, 2012, Musk and SpaceX made history when the company
launched its Falcon 9 rocket into space with an unmanned capsule. The
vehicle was sent to the International Space Station with 1,000 pounds of
supplies for the astronauts stationed there, marking the first time a
private company had sent a spacecraft to the International Space
Station.

TESLA

In 2003, he decided to take on the challenge and put up money for the
car company Tesla. Since his initial funding, Musk took on a much
more active role in the company and In 2008, he became CEO of the
company.That same year the first ever model of the Tesla Roadster
made its debut. Over the years Tesla began creating various models
of their electric vehicles. Soon, Gigafactories were being constructed
both inside and outside of the United States to support production.

Which ones are the mos populars teslas?

First, The Tesla Model S Plaid which has three equipped electric motors,
which produce a total power of 1020 horsepower. The vehicle is capable
of going from 0 to 100 km per hour in just 2 seconds, with a maximum
speed of 320 km / h. Lolo

Second, The Tesla Cybertruck is an electric indestructible truck that was

announced, for the first time in 2019. It will go into production at the end
of 2021

What’s Elon Up To These Days

Aside from running Tesla and SpaceX, Elon has become something
of a celebrity thanks in no small part to social media. When he’s not
sharing memes or promoting his business, he tends to be generating
controversy – and headlines.

Project to Mars

Elon Musk had in mind to build a rocket which could take people to Mars. In
that case, the Starship is the enormous stainless steel rocket that SpaceX
has been building and testing at its development facility in Boca Chica,
Texas. Starship’s goal is to launch cargo and people on missions to the
moon and Mars. Current Starship prototypes stand at about 150 feet tall, or
about the size of a 15-story building, and each one is powered by three
Raptor rocket engines.

Musk has previously estimated that it will cost about $5 billion to fully
develop Starship, although SpaceX has not disclosed how much it has
spent on the program to date.

Musk hopes Starship transforms space travel into something more akin to
commercial air travel. The rocket’s enormous size would also make it
capable of launching several times as much cargo at once — for
comparison, while SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets can send as many as 60
Starlink satellites at a time, SpaceX says Starship will be able to launch
400 Starlink satellites at a time.

Musk remains “highly confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars by
2026, saying last December that it’s an achievable goal “about six years
from now.

Conclusion

Elon Musk may be a hero to some and a villain to others, but there is
no doubt that he’s worked hard to make himself the richest man in the
world. Who would have thought that it all started with creating a video
game at the age of 12?

Musk may have Bezos nipping at his heels. But he is showing no

signs of stopping anytime soon. Whether we’ll see life on Mars or
more electric cars on the roads, Elon Musk proves that it pays to be a
man with a plan.