ELON MUSK BIOGRAPHY &14 FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa to a Canadian mother maye Musk and south African father Errol Musk. His mother was a model and nutritionist while his father was a electromechanical engineer. Musk is the first born out of three siblings. Elon Musk is a citizen of three countries Canada, South Africa and United States.

·         Elon Musk was born in the year 1971 in South Africa.

·         Musk is best known for co-founding Tesla motors and SpaceX, but he got his first wealth through founding and selling Paypal.

·         Tony Stork, the fictional character created, was heavily influenced by musk. Iron man movie was shot at SpaceX.

·         Musk’s official annual pay for Tesla motors is billion dollars, similar to that of steve jobs and other well-known entrepreneurs

·         Musk acquired computer at the age of 10, taught himself computer programming and by the age of 12 he developed a video game called blaster which he sold for 500$ to a computer magazine.

·         Musk became an American citizen at the age of 31 years old that was in 2002.

·         Elon Musk immigrated to Canada from South Africa when he was 17 years old. He eventually went to the university of Pennsylvania in the United States for college.

·         Musk dropped out of Stanford University only after two days to start a firm in booming tech industry.

·         Musk started his first firm ZIP2 after dropping out of graduate school which he later sold for 307$ million.

·         Musk co-founded X.com in 1999 which later became Paypal. Paypall was later sold to Ebay earning Musk 165$ million.

·         Musk is also the co-founder of Tesla motor which he is now the CEO and product architect.

·         Musk is also the largest shareholder of Solarcity which he created together with his cousins

·         Elon Musk also created SpaceX a space exploration technology company. SpaceX manufactures space launch vehicles and rockets to lower the cost of space travel and increase chances of living outside the earth.

·         Initially investors dismissed the idea of SpaceX, this lead to Musk putting all his personal funds into spaceX inorder to make this reality happen.