Elon Musk~ Elon Musk was born on (June 28,1971,Pretoria,South Africa).Who co-founded the electonic payment firm PayPal and leads SpaceX ,Tesla,Neuralink and Open AI.Musk was born with a South African father and a Canadian mother.At the time of his parent's divorce,Musk displayed an early talent for computers .He taught himself how to ptogram and At the age of 12 he created a video game called blaster and sold it to a computer magazine.Study
At the age of 17 in 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen's University and avoid mandatory service in South African military.Musk obtained his Canadian citizenship that year,in part he felt it would be easier to obtain American Citizenship.In 1992 ,Musk shifted to america to study business and physics at the university of Pennsylvania.He graduated with an ungraduate degree in economics and stayed for second bachelor's degree in physics.After leaving University of Pennsylvania, Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a PhD in energy physics.However,his move was timed perfectly with Internet boom,and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part Zip2.
Zip2
Launching his first company,Zip2 corporation in 1995 with his brother , Kimbal Musk. Musk became a U.S citizen in 2002.Zip2 was going to guide an online city , Zip2 was soon providing content for the new website of both The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
In 1999,a division of Compaq Computer Corporation bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock of SpaceX.
PayPal
In 1999,Elon and Kimbal Musk used the money from their sale of Zip2 to found X.com online financial services/payments company.An X.com acquisition the following year lead to the creation of PayPal as it known today. In 2002 Musk earned his first billion dollars when paypal was acquired by ebay for $1.5 billion in stock.Before the sale,Musk owned 11 percent of PayPal stock.
SpaceX
Musk founded his third company,SpaceX in 2002 with the intetion of building space craftfor commercial space travel.By 2008,SpaceX which was well established,Nasa awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the International Space Station-with plans for astronaut transport in the future-in move to replace NASA's own space shuttle missions.
On May 22,2012,SpaceX launched first rocket Falcon 9 into space with an unnamed capsule.In July 2018,SpaceX enjoyed landing of Block 5 falcon .
Networth
His net worth is $199 billion dollar .Now he is the richest person in the world after SpaceX funding round.