Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and engineer. He is the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink. He studied business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania and attended Stanford University but dropped out to pursue his business ventures. Musk has been married twice and has founded multiple successful companies in aerospace, energy, and transportation. He has received numerous awards and honors for his innovative work.
2. Index
• Elon Musk(Short Information)
• Education
• Relationships
• Family and Early Life
• Awards
• Quotes
• Extra
3. Elon Musk
(Short Information)
Born on June 28, 1971, in
Pretoria, South Africa.
CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Inc.
and Neuralink.
Nationality (South African,
American, Canadian).
According to forbes 21th most
powerful people in the world.
Entrepreneur, investor.
4. Education
• At age 17, in 1989, Elon Musk moved to
Canada to attend Queen’s University and
avoid mandatory service in the South African
military.
• He left in 1992 to study business and physics
at the University of Pennsylvania.
• After leaving Penn, Elon Musk headed to
Stanford University in California to pursue a
PhD in energy physics.
• However, his move was timed perfectly with
the Internet boom, and he dropped out of
Stanford.
5. Relationships
•Elon Musk has been married twice.
•He wed Justine Wilson in 2000. After a contentious
divorce, Musk met actress Talulah Riley, and the couple
married in 2010. They split in 2012 but married each
other again in 2013. Their relationship ultimately ended
in divorce in 2016.
•Musk has also been involved in an on-again, off-again
relationship with actress Amber Heard.
6. Family and Early Life
•Son of a Canadian mother and a South African
father, Elon Musk spent his early childhood with his
brother Kimbal and sister Tosca in South Africa.
•At 10, around the time his parents divorced, the
introverted Elon developed an interest in
computers.
•He taught himself how to program, and when
he was 12 he made his first software sale of
a game he created called Blastar.
7. Awards
• In 2012, Musk was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's highest
award: a Gold Medal.
• In 2013, Musk was named the Fortune Businessperson of the year for
SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla.
• In 2015, he was awarded IEEE Honorary Membership.
• In December 2016, Musk was ranked 21st on Forbes list of The
World's Most Powerful People.
• In May 2017, Musk was awarded the Oslo Business for Peace Award.
• Musk was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.
8. Quotes
• "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your
favor."
• "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to
give up."
• "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to
that basket."
• "We're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on
making it work."
• "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will
occur."
• "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
• "I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
9. Real life
Iron
Man
“Iron man is not
just a fictional
character
Elon is the real life
Iron Man”
Elon also makes a cameo
in Iron man 2