Elon Musk was born in South Africa and raised by a Canadian mother and South African father. As a child, he was an avid reader who was inspired by Isaac Asimov's science fiction. Musk has founded or co-founded multiple companies, including Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. SpaceX was awarded contracts by NASA and has developed reusable rocket technology. Tesla produces electric vehicles and solar panels. Musk sees SpaceX's goal as enabling humans to colonize Mars. He overcame challenges like business mergers failing or rocket explosions through calculated risk-taking and perseverance.

1. This man changed the
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2. Birth and Upbringing
Elon Musk as a toddler
Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
The son of Maye Musk, a model and dietician from Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada…
And Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor.
During his childhood he was an avid reader.
His childhood reading included Isaac Asimov's Foundation series from which he
drew the lesson that
"you should try to take the set of actions that are likely to prolong civilization,
minimize the probability of a dark age and reduce the length of a dark age if there is
one."

3. Major events:
• In February 1999, Compaq Computer paid US$307 million to acquire Zip2. Elon
and Kimbal Musk, the original founders, netted US$22 million and $15 million
respectively.
• The company was purchased to enhance Compaq's AltaVista web search engine.
In 2006, SpaceX was awarded a contract from NASA to continue the development and test of the
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft in order to transport cargo to the
International Space Station…
• followed by a US$1.6 billion NASA Commercial Resupply Services program contract on
December 23, 2008, for 12 flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to the Space
Station, replacing the US Space Shuttle after it retired in 2011.

4. • In October 2002, PayPal (formerly X.com) was acquired by eBay
for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million. Before its
sale, Musk, who was the company's largest shareholder, owned 11.7% of PayPal's
shares.
• In July 2017, Musk purchased the domain x.com from PayPal for an undisclosed
amount stating that it has "great sentimental value" to him.

5. • Following the financial crisis in 2008, Musk assumed leadership of Tesla as CEO
and product architect, positions he still holds today.
• Tesla Motors first built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster in 2008, with
sales of about 2,500 vehicles to 31 countries.

6. • On June 17, 2014, Musk committed to building a SolarCity advanced production
facility in Buffalo, New York, that would triple the size of the largest solar plant in
the United States.
• Musk stated the plant will be "one of the single largest solar panel production
plants in the world“ and it will be followed by one or more even bigger facilities
in subsequent years.

7. Details about each Company
• Founded in 1995
• Purpose: Zip2 allowed for two-way communication between
users and advertisers. Users could message advertisers and
have that message forwarded to their fax machine.
• Likewise, advertisers could fax users and users could view that
fax using specific URLs.
• Adversity faced: In April 1998, Zip2 attempted to merge
with CitySearch, its main competitor. While Musk initially
supported the merger, he persuaded the board of directors to
not undergo the merger.
• The two companies "cited incompatibilities in cultures and
technology" as the reason for the merger's failure, according
to The New York Times.

8. SpaceX
Founded in 2002
Purpose: Reducing space transportation costs and
enabling the colonization of Mars.
Adversity faced: In September 2016, a Falcon 9 exploded
during a propellant fill operation for a standard pre-
launch static fire test.
The payload, the Spacecom Amos-6 communications
satellite valued at $200 million, was destroyed.
Musk described the event as the "most difficult and
complex failure" ever in SpaceX's history.

9. Founded in 2003
Purpose: Eventually offering electric cars at prices affordable to the
average consumer.
Adversity faced: Tesla was on the brink of bankruptcy during the stock
market crash of 2008.

10. Lessons to learn from Elon Musk
• Love and take good care of our green and blue ball of life,
called Earth.
• Take calculated risks.
• Always try to gain more knowledge.

11. Which company I find the most
fascinating:
I find SpaceX to be the most fascinating of all his
companies.
I, like Musk, believe that one day, we need to
leave this planet of ours. One day something
could go wrong, and we need to have another
home, to protect our species.
I love the technology, SpaceX has developed that
allows the boosters on rockets to be reused.
Also, I love how they sent a Tesla Roadster into
space.

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