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Childhood and youth
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. Son of Errol Musk, South African engineer, and Maye Musk, Canadian nutritionist and model. His sister Tosca Musk is the founder of Musk Entertainment and a film producer; his brother, Kimbal, is CEO of the advertising company OneRiot.

However, he was not always one of the richest or most powerful. Musk lived a sad and lonely childhood in South Africa, especially after his parents' separation. In fact, even though she went to live with her dad, they never had an easy relationship.

In the period between 12 and 15 years of age he entered an existential crisis influenced by the readings of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. At home things were not going any better, the relationship with his father was quite complicated. He suffered the emotional violence of a parent unable to understand him.Compulsory military service bothered him. For these reasons, at the age of 17, after graduating from high school in Pretoria, he decided to leave South Africa and take refuge with his mother in Canada.His parents divorced and he had to emigrate with his mother to Canada in June 1989. In 1992, thanks to a scholarship, he was able to study Business Administration and Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received his degree from the Wharton School and stayed at the university for another year to complete his second degree in physics. After obtaining his degrees, he decided to dedicate himself to the Internet, renewable energy and the conquest of space.

Musk's legacy

PayPal. The next step would be X.com, a company that was dedicated to controlling financial services and payments through the network through simple steps. Its merger with Confinity - a company that allows money transfers between Palm Pilot devices - would give rise to the well-known Paypal Inc.
In just 5 weeks, Paypal had more than 100,000 customers, something that led competitors such as Visa or eBay to take legal action to close Paypal. This was not the case and Ebay would buy Musk's new company for $ 1.5 billion by the end of 2002

Spacex

The next step for the young entrepreneur was the conquest of space. So I created the SpaceX company to build low-cost, high-reliability rockets. In 2008, it signed a contract for 1.6 billion dollars with NASA to carry out flights to the International Space Station as cargo transport.

and after many years and working on this great project, Musk is focusing all his work to achieve two objectives:
-The first is to be able to make manned trips through space accessible to any type of person.
- Secondly, to send earthlings to Mars, something that seems like the most ambitious of the objectives that he has proposed.

Tesla Motors

Musk's next project was called Tesla Motors, which created the first functional electric car. The company's main investment was solar energy. The idea was born in 2003 in the AC Propulsion company, which had a prototype of an electric car.
Musk wanted to help design a sports car on the same basis as AC Propulsion. By 2004, together with Matt Tappenhig and Martin Eberhard, Tesla Motors was created, with the intention of mass producing the AC Propulsion T-Zero model.

Elon Musk's life status

Elon Musk is the founder of PayPal and CEO of Tesla Motors, Solar City, and SpaceX. He is one of the most admired characters of these times. He is considered a leader, a visionary, and his companies have a mission to change the world drastically.