Elon musk was born on 28th of June, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. Elon musk was a bright child, who always tries to invent new things. When he was 10 years old, his parents got divorced. Elon musk mother, Maye musk is a model in Canada and the oldest woman to star in a cover girl campaign. She worked five jobs at that time to support his family. His father, Errol musk, is an engineer in South Africa and a wealthy man. He has a brother “kimbal” and a sister “Tosca”. He spent his childhood with both brother and sister. At that time, he developed his interest in IT field and start learning coding. In the age of 12, he sold his first software to trade publication PC and Office Magazine that was a video game called “Blaster” and he got $500 for this game. He was bullied by some of his classmates because he was short, introverted and bookish (was always does studies and reads books). He learned karate and wrestling for defending himself from those students who bullied him. At the age of 17, Elon musk moved from South Africa to Canada for higher studies.
He was studied in Queen’s University and avoids mandatory services offered by South African army. Same year, he got citizenship of Canada because he wanted to get American citizenship in future. In 1992, he moved to Pennsylvania to study business and physics in University of Pennsylvania. After some time, he got degree of Bachelor’s in physics and economics and leaved from Pennsylvania. After leaving Pennsylvania, Elon musk moved to stand ford University in California to pursue PhD in Energy physics but he dropped out after two days of becoming the part of Stanford University because of sudden internet boom. Then he started working hard on his first startup. In 1995, he launched his first company “zip2 corporation” with his brother Kimbal musk. Initially Zip2 provides city guide for the citizen of the particular city. After some time, they were providing premium contents for the new websites called New York Times and Chicago tribune. In 1999, musk was sold his first company Zip2 to Compaq Computer Corporation for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock market. Same year, musk and his brother spent that money to start another company named X.com, an online finance service or payment company.
Later X.com was known as PayPal as it is known today. In 2002, he became an U.S. citizen and also earned his first billion when PayPal was acquired by eBay for &1.5 billion in stocks. Before the sale of PayPal, Elon musk owned 11% of PayPal’s stock. After that, he founded his third company “Space Technologies Corporation” (spaceX), with the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel. In 2008, NASA awarded spaceX for his well-maintained establishment and give contract to handle cargo transport for the International space station with the plan for astronaut transport in the future. After giving contract to spaceX NASA moves to replace his own space shuttle missions. In 2012, SpaceX made history when they launched its Falcon 9 Rocket with an unmanned capsule into the space. In which they delivered 1000 pounds of supplies to the international space station. At that moment, Elon Musk said ‘I feel very lucky…… For us, it’s like winning the super bowl’. In 2013, Falcon 9 successfully carried a satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit, distance at which the satellite would lock into an orbital path that matched the Earth’s rotation.
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