Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa. Elon Musk is a self taught computer programmer. He created a game called Blaster at age of 12 and sold it for $500. He left home at age of 17 and later in life moved to California to pursue a PHD in energy Physics at Stanford University but quit the same within 2 days.
Elon along with his brother Kimbal launched a software company named Zip2 in 1995 with the help of his father who helped him with $28000. The board of Zip2 sold the company to Compaq for $307 million out of with Elon received $22 million.
Elon funded x.com a online banking company by putting an investment of $10 million. But all did not went well as the DOCT-COM bubble popped and a preponderance of tech companies started to close their virtual doors. Elon decided to move on and soon x.com become PayPal one of the most known companies around the globe for money transfer. Again Elon interest and dreams got conflict with board of directors and Paypal was sold to ebay at a deal of $1.5 billion in stock changing hands from which Elon received $165 million.
Elon decided to invent reusable rockets for space missions and formed SpaceX. The project fails three times and Elon almost become bankruppt but in the forth attempt the company able to successfully test reusable rocket and soon Spacex got a deal with NASA and success story of Spacex begins.
Later Elon Musk become CEO of TESLA motors and invented electric car there. He also founder Solarcity along with his cousin brothers. Now a days he is working of a project Hyperloop that can carry passangers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes.
Elon Musk life teaches a beautiful lesson of never giving up, believing in our dreams and keep on trying until we get the desired results.
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