ELON REEVE MUSK
INTRODUCTION
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the CEO, CTO and the founder of SpaceX company. He is also the founder of The Boring Company. He has been elected as the FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) in the Forbes list in 2018. Musk is the Co-Chairman of OpenAl company. In March 1999, Musk co-founded an online financial service named X.Com. He also started a company named Zip2. He started a email payment service of this company with united states for $10 dollars. After a year, this company was merged with Confinity ( a software company) which had a money-transfer service known as PayPal.
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Early Life
Elon Musk was born to a Canadian Mother and South African Father. His mother's name is Maye Musk and his father's name is Errol Musk. During his childhood, he was a avid reader. At the age of 10, he developed a interest in computing. At the age of 12, he sold a video game called Blaster to PC and Office Technology for $500. He finished his High School in Pretoria Boys High School and attended University of Pretoria for 5 months and joined Queen's University in Kingston. In 1992, he shifted to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to earn a bachelors degree in physics and economics in 1977. In 1995, Musk was accepted to a Ph.D. programme in energy physics/material science at Standford university in California.
Buissness Careers
In 1995, Musk and his brother started a software company, Zip2. The company was successful and in February 1999, Compaq (American Information Technological Company) obtained $ 307 million and Musk received 7% share from it which was about US$22 million. He founded X.com in 2003 (which was later renamed PayPal). He also founder, and the CEO of SpaceX which is a Aerospace Company in 6 May, 2002. He is the Co-Chairman and the founder of OpenAl which is a Artificial Intelligence company founded in 11 December, 2015. A American Neurotechnological company named Nueralink was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and others. The Boring Company was also founded by Elon Musk which aims to build tunnels. Elon Musk is also the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Tesla which is a Electric Car Producing Company.
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