Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and industrial designer. He is the founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX, founder of Tesla, and co-founder of Neuralink and The Boring Company. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and moved to Canada at age 18. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in physics and economics. He co-founded Zip2 and later made millions from its sale to Compaq. He then co-founded X.com which merged with Confinity to form PayPal, which was later acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion. In 2002 Musk founded SpaceX, with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the
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Elon Musk
Visionary, Leader, Entrepreneur
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Who is Elon Musk?
Cutting-Edge Visionary
Consummate Innovator
(Founded 5 Companies)
Committed To His Vision
Thinks 10 Years Ahead
Real-Life Tony Stark
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Brief Highlights of Elon Musk
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• Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa.
• At age 4 he read out the whole Britannica Encyclopaedia.
• At the age of 9 he got his hands on his first computer, the Commodore VIC-
20 and completed “how to program” guide in just three days.
• At 12, he used his skills to create a video game called Blastar and sold to
a magazine called PC and Office Technology for approximately US$500.
• At age 18 he migrated to Canada and secure Canadian Citizenship through
his Canadian born mother.
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GraduatedfromUniversityofPennsylvania(US)in
BachelorofScienceinPhysicsatage24.
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EnrolledinStanfordUniversityPhDprograminAppliedPhysicsandMaterialScienceatage24.
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Zip2:
• In 1995, he Started Zip2 along with his brother a web software company.
• The company developed and marketed an Internet "city guide" for the newspaper
publishing industry.
• He later on sold the company to Compaq and acquired US$22 million from the
sale.
X.com and PayPal:
• In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail
payment company.
• Through his tenure as a CEO Paypal become pioneer in online money transaction
services.
• In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock.
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SpaceX
In 2002, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill-advised
ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX.
Its purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order
to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars
with at least a million people over the next century.
On 24th march 2006, they launched their first rocket called
FalconSAT – 2.
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First Private
Spaceflight
Company
Dragon
First Private Spacecraft
to reach Orbit and visit
International Space
Station
Working on
Mars Mission
More than $5
Billion in
Contracts
Both Commercial and
NASA Missions
Grasshopper
Prototype
First Ever Reusable
Rocket: Able to Make
Vertical LandingsHighly
Efficient
Falcon 9 Development
Cost 3x Less Than it
Would in NASA
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Sustainable Energy
Consumption
Tesla Roadster
The First Fully Electric
Sports Car
Supercharger Network
268 Stations in 3 Continents
Free to Use
Supplied by Solar Power
$50 Million Investment
by Toyota
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Trend Setter
Transformational
Leadership
Objective and
Result Oriented
Promotes Duplicity of
Leadership Skills in
Others
Leadership Style
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Comes Up With Truly Bold Ideas
100% Commitment
Sustainability-Centric Strategy in
All Three Companies
Role Model to Peers and Fans
What makes him different
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Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People of the
World
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