Elon Musk (English name Elon Musk).
1. Elon Musk (English name Elon Musk) was born in South Africa and immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. He is an engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the CEO of PayPal (the largest online payment company), SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies, Tesla Motors and SolarCity.
2. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk has worked as PayPal, CEO and CTO of environmentally friendly sports car company Tesla, Space Exploration Technologies, and product designer of Tesla Motors. The new company is SpaceX, a private rocket company that is launching spaceships at unrivaled low prices.
3. On November 21, 2013, the famous American financial magazine “Fortune” announced the “2013 Business Person of the Year”, and Tesla Motors CEO Musk topped the list.
4. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa; his mother is Canadian and his father is South African. His maternal grandfather came from Minnesota, USA, and later moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, where his mother was born. Musk’s father is an engineer, and his mother is a writer, nutritionist, and model.
5. Musk bought his first computer when he was 10 years old and taught himself to program. At the age of 12, he sold his first commercial software called Blastar (a small space game) for $500. After graduating from high school at the age of 17 (1988), he left his family without the support of his parents, in part because of compulsory military service.
6. In 1992, after two years at Queen’s University, he left Canada to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he stayed on for another year and received a bachelor’s degree in physics. He then moved to Silicon Valley in California and planned to pursue a PhD in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University, but dropped out after two days of enrollment. Musk considered three fields he most wanted to enter, all of which he believes will have a profound impact on the future of humanity: the Internet, clean energy, and space.
