

Name: Elon Reeve Musk
Born: June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Education: Queen’s University, University of Pennsylvania
Net worth: $19-20 Billion
Bio
Children: Nevada Alexander Musk (deceased of sudden infant death), Kai Musk, Xavier Musk, Saxon Musk, Griffin Musk, Damian Musk
Marital Status: Justine Musk (m. 2000–2008), Talulah Riley (m. 2010–2012), Talulah Riley (m. 2013–2016)
Parents: Maye Musk, Errol Musk
Intro
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur on a mission to save the earth. He first attained success with his online software company Zip2. He then used that money and co-founded Paypal. He then focuses on sustainable energy and space. He co-founded SpaceX and designs electric cars at Tesla Motor. By late 20s, Elon was a multimillionaire. He is now worth over $19 billion.
Early Life
Elon was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the son of Errol and Maye Musk. He is the oldest of 3 children, his brother, Kimble, and his sister, Tosca. His mother was a dietitian and a fashion model. His father was an engineer. His parents divorced while Elon was only 8 years old. From an early age, Elon liked to read.
He was also a video game fan. He started computer programing at the age of 9 and published his first computer program when he was only 12. It was a software code for the video game Blaster.
In 1989 Elon graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. He then moved to Ontario, Canada to study at Queen’s University. Two years later Elon got a scholarship and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. In 1995, Elon graduated from College with degrees in economics and physics.

Zip2
In 1995 Musk co-founded Zip2 with Kimbal and Greg Kouri. Zip2 provided news of all types, city guides, ads, directories, and other related online content to various targeted cities, and Musk built some of the software for it. Zip2 was sold by Compaq for $307 million in cash in February 1999. Musk received 7% of this deal which was $22 million. This was one of the biggest cash deals of its time. This motivated Elon to start a new project.
Paypal
Musk was inspired to create, what was originally called X.com, after seeing the growing population of the eBay website. Musk's ambitious original idea was to offer, via the Internet, all types of financial services, including checking accounts, mortgages, insurance, mutual funds, and other investments. In December 1999 X.com was launched.
Musk put the site online with the promise to place all of the user’s financial service into one place. Elon made the offer of receiving $20 when you start an online checking account and $10 for anyone referring a friend. Within two months the website had attracted over 100 thousand customers.
In March 2000, Musk merged X.com with another new online financial company, PayPal. PayPal had also launched in late 1999 and provided online payment services between people.
Like X.com, PayPal was also attracting thousands of new customers. After the companies merged, PayPal moved into the business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets. Musk soon came into conflict with X.com's CEO and president, Bill Harris, who lasted only six months. In October 2000, Musk announced that X.com would be called Paypal. Musk owned the company for a little more than two years when eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. Musk walked away from this with $180 million.
SpaceX
When Elon is asked what was his reasoning for launching SpaceX he says that one night he was checking NASA’s website for future missions to Mars. Musk was interested in sending plants in small greenhouses to Mars, temporarily establishing life on the Martian surface.
Not being able to take no for an answer Musk used $50 million from his Paypal money into starting SpaceX, with no outside
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Name: Elon Reeve Musk
Born: June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Education: Queen’s University, University of Pennsylvania
Net worth: $19-20 Billion
Bio
Children: Nevada Alexander Musk (deceased of sudden infant death), Kai Musk, Xavier Musk, Saxon Musk, Griffin Musk, Damian Musk
Marital Status: Justine Musk (m. 2000–2008), Talulah Riley (m. 2010–2012), Talulah Riley (m. 2013–2016)
Parents: Maye Musk, Errol Musk
Intro
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur on a mission to save the earth. He first attained success with his online software company Zip2. He then used that money and co-founded Paypal. He then focuses on sustainable energy and space. He co-founded SpaceX and designs electric cars at Tesla Motor. By late 20s, Elon was a multimillionaire. He is now worth over $19 billion.
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