ELON MUSK

The Richest Man Alive

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 Biography
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 Name: Elon Musk

 Father: Errol Musk

 Mother: Maye Musk

 Born:28 June, 1971(age 52)

 Origin: South African American

 Wife: Talulah Riley Musk(An actress)

 Elon Reeve Musk ( born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. Musk
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is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology officer of SpaceX, angel
investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Twitter, Inc., owner, chairman and CTO
of X Corp., founder of the Boring Company, a co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI,
and the president of the Musk Foundation. He is the wealthiest person in the world,
with an estimated net worth of US$217 billion as of August 2023, according to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $219 billion according to Forbes, primarily from
his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
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Early life

• Elon Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa. Childhood wasn’t a great
time for him-he had a tough family life and never fit in well at school.
Elon was constantly bullied in the Encyclopedia Britannica at the age of
four.
• At the age of nine he got his hands on his first computer, the Commodore
VIC-20 and completed “how to program” guide in just three days
• At 12,he used his skills to create a video game called Blastar, “a trivial
game.
• Musk never felt much of a connection to South Africa he didn’t fit in with
the jockish, white Afrikaner culture, and it was a nightmare country for a
potential entrepreneur
• At the age of 17, he left South Africa forever and started out in Canada, and a few years later,
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used a college transfer to the University of Pennsylvania as a way into the US

• In college, he thought about what he wanted to do with his life, the answer he came up with
was a list of five things: *the internet; sustainable energy: space exploration, in particular the
permanent extension of life beyond Earth: artificial intelligence: and reprogramming the human
genetic code.”
• After finishing college, he enrolled in a Stanford PhD program to study high energy density
capacitors. But two days into the program, he got massive FOMO because it was 1995 and he
couldn’t stand to just watch the internet go by. He wanted to jump in and make it better”. So he
dropped out and decided to try the internet instead.

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• Musk took second Internet startup company originally called

X.com but by then merged with another company known as PayPal that had been sold to eBay
for $1.5 billion. This was after his first, Zip2.com, had sold for $305 million in 1999.

Fabulously wealthy and barely into his 30s.

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Struggles.

Tesla was Failing Hard Before It Became profitable, everyone

Expected SpaceX to Fail. …
Musk’s Complicated Personal Life and Finances Elon Musk
faced a difficult upbringing, marked by his parents’ divorce when
he was eight years old and strained relationships with his father
and stepfather. Additionally, he endured regular bullying due to
his introverted nature.

The company faced setbacks such as rocket explosions, failed

launches, and near bankruptcy. In fact, SpaceX had three
consecutive failed launches, and Musk estimated that the
company had only one launch left before running out of funds.
Despite these setbacks, Musk persisted in his vision for
 He rallied his team, learned from the failures,
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and continued to push the boundaries of
space technology. Finally, in 2008, SpaceX
achieved a breakthrough by successfully
launching its Falcon 1 rocket into orbit,
becoming the first privately-funded company
to do so. Since then, SpaceX has achieved
numerous milestones, including the first
privately-funded spacecraft to dock with the
International Space Station, the first
privately-funded spacecraft to land vertically,
and the first privately-funded spacecraft to
send astronauts to space.
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Future plans

Musk’s plan is to create “a sustainable energy civilization.

 Tesla projects it will take $10 trillion in investments to bring about
this sustainable future powered by renewable energy. Musk said
it’s “not a big number relative to the global economy.”

 Elon Musk has revealed in a short animation clip how he plans to

colonise Mars in the next few years. SpaceX released a five-
minute animated promotional video on Tuesday, showing how it
plans to land humans on Mars using Mr Musk’s Starship
spacecraft.
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