Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and engineer known for founding companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Some key points:
- He co-founded Tesla in 2004 and leads the company in developing electric vehicles and alternate energy solutions. SpaceX, founded in 2002, is a private spaceflight company and the first to launch commercially operated rockets.
- With an IQ of 155, Musk has founded multiple ambitious companies focused on sustainable energy, space exploration, and human augmentation. He hopes to reduce global warming and lessen human extinction risks.
- Despite failures and bankruptcy, Musk's perseverance led to successes like SpaceX becoming the first private company to launch
3. • Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink , The Boring
Company, OpenAI
• Net worth: 7370 Cr. USD
• His IQ level: 155
[normal IQ range is between 90-110]
• He is the 8th richest person in the world
4. Early Life:
• He was born on June 28, 1971 in South Africa.
• At the age of 10, when his parents divorced
he taught himself how to program.
• He was a book worm in his childhood and got
bullied until his 15.
• Later he learnt Karate and wrestelling to
defend himself.
5. • At the age of 10 he read a no. of books
which not even a graduate would have
read.
• He read the entire encyclopedia at the
age of 9.
• At the age of 12 he developed a game
called blaster which was sold at 500
dollars
• He in his childhood used to be so lost
in his day dreams about inventions
that his parents did a hearing test.
6. Education:
• At the age of 17 in 1989, he went to Queen’s University in Canada to avoid
mandatory service in South African military.
• He obtained Canadian citizenship in order to get American citizenship easily.
• In 1982,Musk left Canada to study Business and Physics at university of
Pennsylvania.
• Later he headed to Stanford University for PHd in energy sciences, which he left
just 2 days before completion.
7. Zip2 : 1995, Age 24
X.com: 1999, Age 28, running as Paypal
SpaceX: 2002, Age 31,
Tesla: joined in 2004, Age 33
Didn’t stopped here, he always thinks for some or the the other thing.
There is a list of his companies:
His Companies:
8.
9. First Company: Zip2 at Age of 24
Company that provided and licensed online city
guide software to newspapers.
He being in his young age wasn’t trusted by the
board members and was removed from the position
of CEO.
Later at the market crash of 1999-2000, the
company was sold and he got 22 million.
With 22 million in his young pockets, he didn’t
stopped to enjoy luxury.
10. Second Company: X.com at Age of 28
first online banking company
X.com later merged with Confinity and
became PayPal, which is quite a popular
company still.
In October 2000, Musk had a difference
of opinion with the company CTO, which
resulted in loosing his company.
He was kicked out of the company when
he was away and was given 165 million
dollars.
Then also he wasn’t ready to stop. In
that course of time he developed a
thought to find life on mars and send
people there.
11. He went to Russia with his idea, But the financial
crisis made him return back.
After coming back he did his own R&D for sending
humans into space.
An average cost of a single travel to space came
out to be 8 million dollars.
To beat the budget he thought of reusing the spacecraft.
Nobody believed in his vision of sending the rockets into space at low
cost and bring it back to be reused.
• His first 3 launches were failed, leaving him bankrupt and distrust
of investors. He didn’t gave up and asked for just one more try.
• And at the 4th time he got success and also got a 1.5 billion project
from NASA.
13. Falcon 9 Rockets
• In 2002, Musk and SpaceX made history by launching its Falcon 9 carrying 1000
pounds of supplies for astronauts stationed there.
• It was the first private company to send spacecraft to the International Space
Station.
• In 2013, Falcon 9 successfully carried satellites to the geosynchronous transfer
orbits.
• In 2015 , Falcon 9 was launched fitted with Deep Space Climate
Observatory(DSCOVR) satellite to observe the extreme emissions from the sun.
• In 2017, he presented the design of spaceship carrying 100 people to red
Planet, to accomplish his aim of colonizing Mars.
14. TESLA
• It is an American company which
specializes in electric vehicle and
providing alternate energy.
• It is named after the engineer-
NIKOLA TESLA.
• Tesla is the world’s best plug-
in and battery electric power
car company.
• Elon Musk joined Tesla in
2004, and he is the highest
share holder of the company.
• Tesla Share price is around:
1607 dollars.
15. • Later he was involved in Tesla Motors,
worked there and became its CEO.
• In Tesla, he developed a vision of Electric
Vehicle, built an electric car too but it
crossed its budget by 2x.
16. Cyber Truck
It is an all- electric, battery powered commercial vehicle
• Cost: 40,000 dollars
• It can tow upto 14000 pounds and drive at the speed of 500 + mph
• It is a bullet proof, unbreakable glass truck.
• It has an ultimate durability and passenger protection structure.
17. HYPERLOOP
A revolutionary public transport.
Speed: 760 mph, nearly the speed of
sound
He conducted a competition of
capable engineers from around
the world to achieve it, which was
won by TUM, with record speed of
430 kmp. The team from IIT Madras, AVISHKAR
also won the heart of Elon, and is
now working on the design of the
pod in India
FLAMETHROWER:
Musk’s “The Boring Company” found
a market for Flamethrowers, at a cost
of 500 dollars per piece.
18. Some more of his Ideas:
• Starlink : SpaceX is aiming to develop a 12000 satellite chain to provide new high speed
internet connections across the world.
• Solar city : it is a company of Elon’s cousins which was aquired by Tesla Inc in 2016.
It provide solar charging stations for the electric cars developed by Tesla.
• OpenAI: it is Musk’s company that works on acquiring benefits for humanity using Artificial
Intelligence.
• Neuralink: It is another of musk’s company which is developing ultra high bandwidth
machines to interface human-brain with computers.
Recently the company has developed a neuralink chip which
will be implanted behind human ears and will allow them to
stream music directly into their brain.
It will also be helpful in treating anxiety and depression.
• The Boring Company : It is an American Infrastructure and tunnel construction company.
Their idea is to avoid traffic by travelling within tunnels dig beneath the earth surface.
19. FACT:
He has named his son as X Æ A-12, out of his
love for science and technology.
Name explained:
He is ranked 21st in the forbes list of most
powerful people in the world.
His main goals include reducing global
warming through sustainable energy production
and consumption and lessening the risk of human
extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars
He also has a non-profitable
organization – MUSK
FOUNDATION.
21. LIFESTYLE
• He writes his day schedule in the morning.
• He skips breakfast and complets his lunch in 5 mins to save
time.
• He is such a crazy head, his tweets has several times caused
loss of billions and inviting legal actions.
• He once smoked weed in the LIVE Tv which made the
company shares to go down by 9%, inclusive of other
factors.
22. There is a book on Elon Musk called:
Elon musk: Tesla,SpaceX and the Quest for a fantastic
future.
It is Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk, published in
2015. The book traces Elon Musk's life from his childhood
up to the time he spent at Zip2 and PayPal, and then onto
SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity