Elon Reeve Musk-Canadian-American engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and investor.SpaceX founder and X.com companies.Company X.com for those who do not know was renamed PayPal and sold in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion.Also, he is the CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX and Tesla Motors.
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Elon began his career at 10 years of age to learn to program and in 12 years got his first result in $ 500 from the sale of the game.
Musk invested in shares of the pharmaceutical company, which is followed through the newspapers. With the proceeds from the sale of a few thousand dollars he had in Canada. Prior to joining the University, he lived with relatives in Kingston, Ontario. Eventually he moved to Stanford, but the training is not finished.
In the 1996/1997 year, Musk and his brother founded Zip2 company, which specializes in software for news companies.
In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com that is engaged in providing personal electronic remittances via e-mail and later was renamed PayPal.
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In June 2002, Musk founded his third company - SpaceX, which develops and manufactures space well and accordingly military equipment.
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Tesla Motors Company was founded in 2003, specializes in the production elektromobiley.Nazvana in honor of the world-famous physicist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.
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Which, in turn, beginning the era of cost-effective and environmentally friendly transport.
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Well, I want to summarize how the inventor Elon Musk compared with Henry Ford - for his contribution to automotive, Howard Hughes - for the development of Sky and Space, with Thomas Edison - for the ability to turn the invention into a large-scale business, which is called "enterprise". And of course, with Steve Jobs - for the ability to turn the existing industry and for centuries to create a fundamentally new for everyone something.
And despite the age of 45 years Ilon continues to amaze with their new, albeit sometimes not successful, but further refined inventions, both on the ground and in space.
I think he is South African , not Canadian .