Elon Musk was born in June 1971
Elon Musk Born in Pretoria, South Africa Musk was born on 28 June 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the son of Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Canada. And Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. March 1981 Interest in Computing His parents divorced when Elon Musk was 10 during this time. He got into computers. At 10, he developed an interest in computing with the Commodore VIC-20 and taught himself computer programming.
In March 1984, he sold his first video game. By the age of 12, Musk sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar. To a magazine called PC and Office Technology, for approximately $500.
June 1989: Elon Musk Moved to Canada At the age of 17
Elon Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University. Avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. August 1992 University of Pennsylvania Elon Musk left Canada to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor’s degree in physics.
February 1995 Started Zip2
Elon Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a web software company that developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry. The company raised money from a small group of angel investors. February 1999: Sold Zip2 to Compaq Compaq acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options.
In February 1999.
Elon Musk received US$22 million for his 7 percent share from the sale. March 1999: Cofounded X.com Musk co-founded X.com, a financial services and payments company via email. It achieved a high level of security without making the transfer complicated for the user. March 2000: X.com to PayPal X.com merged with Confinity Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley. Musk was attracted to Confinity because of its easy payment system. The merged company changed its name to PayPal.
January 2000 First Wife
Elon Musk married Canadian author Justine Wilson after meeting her while attending the University of Queens. They had six children together, but their first son, Nevada, passed away in infancy May 2002: Founded SpaceX Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, with US$100 million of his early fortune. SpaceX develops and manufactures space launch vehicles to eventually build
more affordable spacecraft that would make it possible to one day reach and colonize Mars. In October 2002 eBay acquired PayPal. PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock. Musk won 150 million USD in eBay shares. In July 2003, Tesla was founded. Engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors. Elon Musk came into the project in 2004, leading an investment round in the startup with a personal contribution of $70 million. Musk participated in designing their first electric car, which was a Tesla Roadster sports car based on the British Lotus Elise.
July 2006: Cofounded SolarCity
Elon Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity, co-founded by his cousins. Lyndon and Peter Rive, SolarCity, develops and sells solar panels and roof tiles. May 2012 SpaceX Dragon SpaceX’s vehicle, Dragon, docked with the International Space Station (ISS), making history as the first commercial company to launch and berth a car to the International Space Station. September 2014 Tesla Autopilot Tesla Motors announced its first version of AutoPilot. Its system is capable of lane control with autonomous steering, braking, and speed limit adjustment based on signal image recognition. Elon Musk believes that before too long, The software will be good enough that it can operate without active human oversight.
July 2016 Neuralink
Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neuroscience startup company centered on creating devices. That can be implanted in the human brain, with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence. May 2016: SpaceX makes history. After many failed attempts, SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea. After launching it into space for the first time, changing the economics of spaceflight forever.
January 2021: World’s richest man
Elon Musk is now worth $182.9 billion, which again makes him the wealthiest person. On the planet. According to Forbes’ estimates, the Tesla chief is now just less than $1 billion richer than Bezos, who falls to the second-richest person in the world.
2025 Mars
SpaceX intends to land on the Martian surface, starting a project that could colonize Mars in 40-100 years. Musk has said he’d like to die there, if possible—though not on impact.