3. Elon Musk’s life
So to begin with, Elon Musk was born in
pretoria, south africa on june 28th,1971.
the oldest of 3 children. His father was a
south african engineer and his mother a
canadian model. His parents divorced in
1980 and he lived with his father who was
« a terrible man » as he said. School also
wasn’t better because he faced a lot of
bullging there, so he didn’t have a happy
childhood. However, Musk’s
accomplishments were early since
technology became an escape for him.
5. Elon Musk’s achievements
At 10 years old he became acqainted with programming using a
commodore vic-20 and at 12 he programmed and sold his
game blastar for 500$. By 19 he moved to the USA to study at
the university of « Pennsylvania ». In 1995, Musk started Zip2,
a web software company that would help newspapers develop
online city guides. In 1999, Zip was sold to compaq computer
corp for 341$ million and with this money he created x.com ,
which grew into what is known today as paypal which was sold
in 2002 for 1.5 billion in stock. With his newfound wealth,
Musk went on to found space X, a company with the intent of
establishing commercial space travel.
6. He then founded tesla motors with the purpose
of producing affordable electric cars. What is
more, in 2012 space x launched its falcon 9
rocket carrying 1000 pounds of supplies to the
international space station. As for his latest-
news, Musk completed a deal in octobre 2022,
becoming the owner of the Social Media
Company, « Twitter »
7. Conclusion
To sum up, the story of Musk’s success can be a
good example of how to turn one’s weakness into
strength. It can also be an incentive to anyone
who wants to be successful in his life whatever
difficulties he may face.
