its a Short Biography of Mr.Elon Musk who is an Investor, Mechanic, and a good thinkers.....his inventions his Struggle and his Visions are presented......."Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."- Elon Musk..........Thank You
2. •South African origin
•Born 28 July 1971
•Founder of SpaceX
•Co founder of Tesla and
PayPal
•CEO/CTO of SpaceX and
Tesla Motors
•Married with an actress,
Talulah Riley (since 2010)
•With Five Children's
•15th Richest Man in
Tech.(2015) By. FORBES
3. • Self Taught Computer Programmer
• Sold a video game named “BLASTER” made by him
for US$500 at the age of 12
He studied in three Universities :
• 1.)QUEEN’S University in Kingston at the age of 19
• 2.)University of Pennsylvania at the age of 24
Bachelor of Science in Physics
• 3.) Enrolled for PhD. In Stanford University but left the
University to pursue his GOALS in the fields of Internet,
Renewable energy, & Outerspace.
4. His first Computer where
he made his Careers first
Video game
which he
sold for US$500 at the
age of 12.
5.
6. • In 1995, Musk and his brother Kimbal created his first IT company Zip2.
• He took $28000 from his father to start the company.
• Musk obtained contracts with New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
• In 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in
Securities (stock).
7. • In 1999, Musk starts X.Com – an online bank(with his own money)
• In March 2000, merges with rival company forming PayPal.
• Musk got ousted as CEO from PayPal.
• Then PayPal got acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in Stock of which $165 million
was given too Musk.
8. • In 2002, Musk started a company SpaceX to
build his own rockets
• He wants to build the affordable rockets to
fulfil his “MARS OASIS” project.
• In SpaceX, he invested US$100 million in
early fortune.
• After three times failure of Launch in rockets,
in 2008 he was running out of Cash.
• On Sept 2008, Fourth time his launch
succeeds.
• And on Dec 2008, he wins NASA contract for
12 flights for $1.6 billion.
9. •In 2003, Musk meets JB Straubel, (Electric Car
Enthusiast).
•January 2004, he meets TESLA founders Martin
Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning.
•April 2004, he Invests in Tesla and becomes
Chairman suggesting JB and Tesla founders work
together.
•In 2008, first Tesla customers get their Roadsters
at $109000
•And in 2009, Musk unveils the first Tesla Model S,
2012 he unveils Model X (SUV)
•On 2012 launches Super Charger Network (for
long distance driving).
10. • In August 2006, Musk became the first Investor in SolarCity, his Cousins
Company Peter and Lyndon Rive.
• In March 2016, SpaceX bought $90 million of SolarCity stocks.
• On 1 August 2016, Tesla Motors takeover SolarCity in $2.6 billion.
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12. Never Give Up.
Really like what you do.
Don’t listen to the #littleman.
Take a Risk.
Do Something Important.
Focus on signal over noise.
Look from Problem Solvers.
Attract great people.
Have a great product.
Work Super Hard.
13. • First HYPERLOOP trains Starts running in 2020.
• To reduce the Cost of Human Spaceflight 100 times Cheaper.
• Hopes to Send humans to Mars Surface within 10-20 years.
• He wishes to Establish a Mars Colony with a Population of 80000 by
2040.
• Tickets to Mars are now at $500,000 a piece.