Elon Musk, Engineer and technology entrepreneur for companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, Neuralink, and so many more. Creating electric cars which have no gas, having to charge the battery to drive.
When Musk was 20, he started studying economics and physics, which led to all of the businesses he owns, Co-founding. He had his first breakthrough by selling his and his brother Kimbal Musk’s first co-founded company Zip2 for 307 billion dollars to a division of Compaq Computers; Musk only got 22m because of his 7% share in the company.
Elon Musk is also very smart; his mother said, “he was always thinking,” which makes sense because he is one of the biggest founders of rockets and electric cars, about to send rockets to Mars and making cars so futuristic no one thought it was possible. He also has been thinking about investing in a business like Uber, but there is no driver for a safe and better experience for the riders.
Elon Musk has had so many failures in his life, but he didn’t stop trying. One of his biggest failures is his own company Zip2 ousted as Ceo of Zip2. Some more, ” in 1999”, the first Paypal product was voted worst business idea, “in 2001”, Russia refused to send rockets to send plants or mice to Mars, “in 2002”, Russia refused him again while he was trying to found SpaceX. Musk almost went bankrupt, too, by making a joke about Tesla.
There are so many more things that he had to come by and keep working threw, and Elon Musk once said,” When something is important enough, you do it even if your odds aren’t in your favor.”
Elon Musk’s life isn’t really that similar to mine; besides his siblings, I have a brother and a sister; I don’t have 23.6 billion dollars, though.
I have been thinking about starting my own business when I get older. I know it will be a struggle, and everything won’t work out, but I am very inspired by Elon Musk and his failures in how he learned. He didn’t stop working after he failed; he kept going. I am also very surprised at how after he got 307 million in cash, he didn’t stop. He kept going and increased his money over 74 times.
He also has probably inspired so many more people to make an attempt to start their own business. He has invested in so many companies and made so much just from all that.
Elon Reeve Musk was born June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. Mom was a model, and Dad was an electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. Had a younger brother and younger sister. During his childhood, Musk was an avid reader. At the age of 10, he was interested in coding with his own computer called the Commodore Vic-20. He taught himself how to program by the age of 12 and sold his first code to basic video games he created called Blastar and made about $500 for that.
Musk has been to a couple of colleges, one being Harvard, that he dropped out of in a couple of days. Musk graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.
Elon Musk was a very successful businessman who only had a few losses. Musk started off in 1995 with his brother and his first company, zip2, a web software company. The company developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry, with maps, directions, and yellow pages. His attempts to become CEO of this company were overthrown, and he wasn’t able to. The CEO of this company ended up selling it in 1999 for $307m in cash and $34m in stock options. Musk only obtained around 22m for his 7% share in the company, but that boosted and funded his next business.
Which was what we all know today as PayPal. Originally it was called X.com, an Email payment company. Then just a year later, Musk merged with a company called “Confinity,” there were the ones that had a money-transferring service called PayPal. They worked on the company a lot, focusing on trying to get it out there, and then renamed it PayPal in 2001. Early growth was driven by a viral marketing campaign where new customers were recruited when they received money through the service. Musk was ousted in October 2000 from his role as CEO (although he remained on the board) due to disagreements with other company leadership, notably over his desire to Microsoft Windows. In the end, PayPal was bought by eBay for $1.5b in stocks, and Musk received $165m in cash.
In 2001, Musk conceived Mars Oasis, a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars containing crops that have already started growing, in an attempt to start up and reawaken space exploration.
Tesla Inc. was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until the series round of funding. Tesla is a car company with Musk as an engineer and electronics specialist. He makes all sorts of self-driving (autopilot).
In 2016 Musk created a company called Neuralink, a neurotechnology company to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence. The company is trying with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence.
In 2015, Musk created a non-profit organization for artificial intelligence, and it’s mostly about how artificial intelligence is safe for humans.
December 17, 2016, Musk tweeted, “I’m going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.” The tunnel was used for the first SpaceX program, and they started digging around February 2017.
SolarCity
2006, Musk Co-founded the company with his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. This company was based on solar energy, being the second-best solar provider in the United States; SolarCity was acquired by Tesla in 2016.
Musk is doing really well with a net worth of over 23 billion dollars; companies have been doing good, and really, not that many big failures lately. SpaceX is soon going to send life to Mars, and Tesla just came out with a new truck, but the live advertisement wasn’t very good because had said that the windows were bulletproof and didn’t crack, but the car was up on stage, and he asked his assistant to throw a rock at the window, and the window cracked, then they tried the back one and the back one cracked too.
