Elon Musk Biography

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Elon musk born in 1971 and his story begin in South Africa where he was born. He later became an American businessman and found the Paypal and launch Tesla and SpaceX. He was also one of the early major investors and CEO of the electric car company

Elon Musk grew up in books and computers. He was buillied by his classmates and often beaten by class bully until he was old enough to defend himself in his teens. He create a Video Game at the age of 12 and sold it to a computer magazine. Musk left South Africa in 1988 after obtaining a canadian passport because he refused to support military serivce and wanted to take advantage of the higher economic prospects available in United States of America

After than Elon Musk moved to canada at the age of 17 to study queen's university and avoid military service in South Africa. Musk got canadian citizenship in the same year. Elon Musk to United States America in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He done a Bachelor's degree in economics and in physics as well and then leaving pennsylvania, Musk went to Stanford University in California to pursue a PHD in Physics but elon musk dropped out the Stanford after only two days cause he want to start his own company. Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk younger brother done the business degree from Queen's University and came to california to join him. . In the early days on internet popularity the brothers dediced to form Zip2, an internet business directory with maps and This market elon musk entry into business world.  The brother sold Zip2 to compaq in 1999 for $300 million. 

Elon Musk created his own online financial services company X.com by peter thiel and two others, headquaters in the same building, was its main competitor. In March 2000, the two companies joined forced and named thier flagship product Paypal, an online money transfer service for individuals. In october 2002, the online auction site Ebay acquired paypal for $1.5 Billion in eBay Stock. Elon Musk, who was PayPal's largest shareholder with 11.7% of the company's equity, found himself with $165 million in eBay stock at the age of 31. After leaving PayPal, he has founded, co-founded, led companies focused on addressing three specific existential risks to humanity's long-term survival: climate risk, single-planet dependence risk, and the risk of obsolescence of the human species. He invested his entire initial wealth in building two of these companies, SpaceX and Tesla Motors.

Elon Musk Joined Tesla Motors in 2004  alongside engineers Martin Eberhad and Marc Tarpenning, where he done his best to development of the world's first electric vehicle, the Tesla. After eberhard was fired from the comapany 2007 due to serveral controversies, musk took over as CEO, Tesla has become one of the world's most popular and desirable vehicle brands. Musk has been vocal about his desire to work with NASA on a collaborative mission to land an astronaut on Mars by 2025. After facing harassment in school, he became a small business owner and eventually the CEO of two creative firms.