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| Elon Musk Net Worth - $ 189.7 B |
Who is Elon Musk ?
Elon Musk is american entrepreneur . Who founded X.com in 1999 X.com named as paypal later , an online financial service and e-mail payment company. Elon Musk found his third company space X in 2002 and tesla motor in 2003.
Elon musk early life childhood and family
Elon musk was born on june 28 , 1971, in pretoria, transvaal , the son of maye musk ,a model and musk father is a electromechanical engineer . He has a younger brother kimbel ( born 1972 ) , and a younger sister tosca ( born 1974 ) he lived with his father after parents divorce in 1980.
During hi childhood he was an good and intelligent reader . A the age of 10 , develop an interest in computing programming at the age of 12 .
Musk was a very quite child and was bullied in his childhood . Elon musk is graduated from pretoria boys high school . They years were lonely and brutal, from his discription .
Elon musk education
At age 17 , in 1989 Musk moved to canada to attend queen is university and avoid mandatory service in the south africa military.
In 1992, musk left canada to study business and physics a the university of pennsylvania. After leaving pennsylvania , musk headed to stanford in california to pursue a PHD in energy physics . Musk become US citizen in 2002.
Road to success
In october 2002 , paypal was acquired by ebay for $ 1.5 billion in stock. Before the sale musk owned 11 percent of paypal stock.
Musk had begun to dream a miniature experimental greenhouse that he could land on mars . The green house , which called ''mars oasis''.
Musk founded his third company space exploration technologies cooperation of space X , in 2002 with the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel.
Companies
Space X
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| SpaceX comapany |
With US $100 million of his early fortune . Musk found space exploration technologies or space x , in may 2002. Elon musk is chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technology officer (CTO) of the hawthorne , california based company .
Space x develops and manufacture space launch vechile with a focus on advancing the state of rocket technology . The companies is first two launches vechiles are falcon 1 and falcon 9 rocket and its first space craft is the dragon.
In 2006 ,space X was awarded a contract from NASA to continue the development and the test of space x falcon 9 launch vechile and dragon spacecraft in order to transport cargo to the international space station
In january 2015, space x raised 1 $ billion in funding from google and fidelity , in exchange for 8.3335% of the company , establishing the company valuation at approximately $ 12 billion.
In early 2012, approximately two thirds of the company were owned by its founder and his 70 million shares were the estimated to be worth $ 875 millions of private market.
Tesla
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| tesla |
Musk is the co-founder, CEO and product architect at Tesla Motors, a company formed in 2003 that is dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars as well as battery products and solar roofs. Musk oversees all product development, engineering and design of the company's products.
Zip2
Zip2 , is former american technology company (1995-90 ) that was first enterprise founded by elon musk . It provided a searchable business directory that could be described as an internet version of the yellow pages telephone directory with maps included .
Boring company
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| Boring Company |
Elon musk is the founder of boring company ( December 17, 2016). Its current purpose projects are design intracity transit system although the company has started the howthrone test tunnel can support hyperloop and the current tunnel are built .
Neuralink
Elon musk is the founder of american neurotechnology company (July 2016 ) , developing Inplantable brain machine interface . The company is headquarter in san Francisco .
Open Ai
Elon musk is founder of open Ai company ( October 2015 ) open Ai is a an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for profit corporation . The organization founded in san Francisco in late 2015 . In 2019 , Open Ai LP received a US$1 billion investment from Microsoft .
Net Worth
His fortune owes much to his stake in tesla motor Inc. (TSLA) , of which he remains CEO and chief product architect . As of December 2017 , his net worth is up more than $7 billion from $13 billion in march 2016.
SpaceX has also contribute mightily to musk is net worth . The space exploration company he founded in 2002 raised $1 billion from google Inc . and friendly investments in january 2015.
Elon musk is richest person in world and its total net worth is now $189.7 billion .
Dream Of Elon Musk
His dream is big . he thought of colonizing mars in 2002 but now he is building hyperloops , electric cars , solar panel, AI etc . with having future in mind .
His boring company providing tunnels for faster and safar routes , tesla is designing driverless cars , solar panel , is helping to finding a new and very effective source of energy . star aims to provide free internet across the globe to everyone living in remote areas .
Very galactical exploration and also aims to colonize mars and moon .
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