How awesome is Musk?

Elon musk (19765438+28 June 0-), an entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born in South Africa and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He is famous as the founder of Space Exploration Technology Company and the co-founder of Tesla Motors Company and PayPal Company. He was the winner of Hawking Science Communication Award in 20 19, and is currently the CEO and CTO of Space Exploration Technology Company, and is known as "Iron Man in Silicon Valley" [1].

On February 3, 2020, 65438 was selected as the business person of Fortune in 2020, ranking first.

202 1, 1, 2 1 (US local time), Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he would provide 1 billion dollars for the "Best Carbon Capture Technology Award".

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Elon Musk

date of birth

1971June 28th

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Elon Musk

birthplace

Pretoria, South Africa

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Character experience

Early experience

1971On June 28th, Musk was born in South Africa. His father is an engineer in South Africa and his mother is a nutritionist in Canada.

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198 1 year, 10-year-old Musk had his first computer and learned software programming.

1983, 12 years old, he successfully designed a game called "Blastar" and offered 500 dollars for this commercial software.

1988, 17 years old, he went to Canada, and his ultimate dream was America.

1992, after studying at Queen's University in Canada for two years, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania to study business and physics. Businessmen in wharton school? After graduating from college with a bachelor's degree in economics, I stayed in school for another year and then got a bachelor's degree in physics. Then he moved to Silicon Valley in California and planned to study at Stanford University? He studied for a doctorate in applied physics and materials science, but dropped out two days later. Musk considered the three areas he most wanted to get involved in. What are these three areas? In his view, they are all areas that have a profound impact on the future development of mankind, namely, the Internet, renewable energy and space. [2] After obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics, elon musk stayed in school for another year and obtained a bachelor's degree in physics.

From 65438 to 0995, 24-year-old elon musk entered Stanford University to study for a master's degree in materials science and applied physics, but on the second day after entering the school, elon musk decided to drop out of school and start a business.

Business experience

1995 After dropping out of school, elon musk and his younger brother, Kimbal Musk, took a random angel investment from a small group in Silicon Valley and founded Zip2, a company that develops online content publishing software for news organizations. At that time, The New York Times and The Chicago Post became customers of the Musk Brothers.

1999, Compaq, an American computer manufacturer, bought Zip2 with $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options. Elon musk, 28, made a profit of $22 million in this acquisition. In March of the same year, elon musk invested US$ 654.38+0 billion to establish X.com, an online financial service and e-mail payment business company with two partners from Silicon Valley.

In 2000, elon musk's sister Tosca Musk set up an independent film production company "Musk Entertainment Company", and elon musk was the producer of the first film "Puzzle". Other famous movies, such as "Thank you for smoking" in 2005, were registered in his name. In addition, he also made guest appearances in seven films and TV series.

At the beginning of 200 1, Musk planned a project called "Mars Oasis", and planned to land a small experimental greenhouse on Mars, including crops grown in Martian soil. However, when he found that the launch cost was much higher than the R&D and engineering cost of the project, he suspended the project. He decided to set up a company to study how to reduce the launch cost, which is space exploration technology company.

One day in June 5438 +2002 10, Musk was 30 years old. Musk University studied physics, but he is not a rocket expert. But in the face of the news that Paypal is about to go public, he has a basic principle of rocket propulsion. Later, Paypal didn't go public.

In June 2002, ebay acquired Paypal with10.50 billion shares, of which Musk owns110.7% shares, about 328 million US dollars. Four months before that, he founded Space Exploration Technology Company to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launch. He immediately invested more than $65,438 billion in space exploration technology company. His ambition is to reduce the launch cost to110 of the commercial space launch market, and he plans to develop the world's largest rocket for interstellar migration in the future.

In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, a company founded by martin eberhard, and served as the company's chairman. Tesla is a company that manufactures high-end electric sports cars. Musk's investment in it is obviously based on his love for electric vehicles and his optimism about this market. Because of management problems and the stumbling of the production process of the first sports car, Musk invested all his money in research and development.

In 2005, 34-year-old Musk was worth more than $300 million. When he was less than 40 years old, the three ideals of Internet, clean energy and space had been realized.