About Entrepreneur ELON MUSK

1. ELON
MUSK
Lahiru Herath

2. Content
 Brief highlights of Elon Musk
 Biography
 Early life of Elon Musk
 How he came up with his ideas
 Elon’s current stage
 Obstacles that Elon faced
 Lessons that we can learn from Elon Musk's
life
 Elon’s Future Plans

3. Brief highlights of Elon Musk
Born in South
Africa
1971
Sold his first video
game
1983
Sold Zip2 , first
company to
Compaq
1999
eBay acquired
PayPal
2002
Founded SpaceX
2002
Join with Tesla
2004
Cofounded
Soloarcity
2006
Develop the
Hyperloop concept
2013
Cofounded
Neuralink
2016
Become world’s
richest man
2021

4. Biography
Name : Elon Reeve Musk
Born : 28 July 1971
Origin : South African
Education : University of Pennsylvania
Spouses : Talulah Riley
Residence : Los Angeles, USA
Occupation: An Entrepreneur, Engineer, Investor

5. Early life of
Elon Musk
• Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa.
• He is the Errol Musk and Maye Musk ‘s oldest son of three children.
• Elon was constantly buried in Encyclopedia Britannica at the age of four.
• At the age of four, Elon was constantly buried in the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
• At the age of ten, he developed an interest in computing with the
Commodore VIC-20 and taught himself computer programming
• He used his skills to create a code of a BASIC-BASED video game called
Blaster, “ a trivial game” and he sold it
• In 1992, he went to University of Pennsylvania.
• He got two degrees in Business and Physics Major

6. How he came up
with his ideas?
• When he was in college, he considered
what he wanted to accomplish with his
life and came up with a list of five ideas.
 The internet
 Sustainable energy
 Space exploration
 Life beyond earth
 Artificial intelligence
 Reprogramming the
human genetic code

7. Elon Musk Current
Stage
 CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX
 CEO and Product Architect of Tesla
 Founder of The Boring Company
 Cofounder of Neuralink
 Cofounder of OpenAI

8. Obstacles
that Elon
faced
 Rejection from Netscape and Ousted at ZIP2
in 1996, Elon Musk was ousted as the CEO of the company.
 PayPal was voted 'worst business concept of the year’
When PayPal was issued as security software for the PalmPilot and other
portable devices in 1999, it was voted the worst business idea of the year.
 Tesla crisis
The company also had serious financial problems, and it was on the verge of
going out of business.
 SpaceX failure
The failure of the company's first three launches generated skepticism
among many investors but fourth one got a huge success.
 Running on empty
2008 was the worst year of his life. After investing his whole money on Tesla
and SpaceX. Musk was reliant on personal loans from friends

9. Lessons that we can learn
from Elon Musk's life
• Work hardly
• Divergent thinking
• Our first goal should not be to make
money.
• Never fear to failure
• Take a risk.
• Follow own passions

10. Elon’s Future
Plans
• By 2027, Musk wants to launch 12,000
broadband satellites into orbit.
• HYPERLOOP trains start running in
2025
• Propagation of Open-source technology
• Mars colonization by 2030

11. Thank You!