3. 1971
Born In
South
Africa
1983
At age 12
sold a
video game
for $500
1999
Sells first
company
zip2 for
$300 million
2002
Sells
paypal to
ebay for
$1.5 billion
2002
Founds
Spacex
2004
Invests in
tesla
Motors
2006
Introduced
Solarcity
concept
2008
Becomes
Tesla
Motors
CEO
2013
DEVELOPS
HYPERLOOP
CONCEPT
4. Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa.
At age 4 he read out the whole Britannica Encyclopedia.
At the age of 9 he got his hands on his first computer, the Commodore
VIC- 20 and completed “how to program” guide in just three days.
At 12, he used his skills to create a video game called Blastar and sold to a
magazine called PC and Office Technology for approximately US$500.
At age 18 he migrated to Canada and secure Canadian Citizenship through
his Canadian born mother.
5. Graduated from University of Pennsylvania (US) in Bachelor of
Science in Physics at age 24.
6. Enrolled for PhD. in Stanford University but
left after attending for 2 days to pursue his
entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the
Internet, renewable energy and outer space.
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8.
9. 1999- Musk co-founded X.com. An online financial services and e
mail payment company
2000- Merged with Confinity, which had a money transfer
service called paypal
2001- The merged company focused on Paypal services
and was renamed to Paypal
Musk was appointed as the CEO of the company
2002- Paypal was acquired by E-Bay for $1.5 billion
10. Second largest
Provider of solar power
systems in the United States
Musk provided concept & financial capital in
2006
Underlying motivation for funding both
SolarCity and Tesla is to help combat global
warming
Musk committed to building a SolarCity
advanced production facility in 2014
11. In 2002, he started one of
the most unthinkable and
ill-advised ventures of all
time: a rocket company
called SpaceX.
Its purpose was to revolutionize
the cost of space travel in order to
make humans a multi-planetary
species by colonizing Mars with
at least a million people over the
next century.
On 24th march 2006, they
launched their first
rocket called FalconSAT
– 2.
12. Musk was failed 3 times while launching the
rockets in the space.
He was near to Bankruptcy.
But he didn’t give up and tried again and this
time he was successful
His never giving up attitude was a motivation
for all those who give up easily.
According to him if you are not failed then you
have not reached the success.
13. Incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard
and Marc Tarpenning
Musk led the Series A round of investment in
February 2004, joining Tesla's Board of
Directors as its Chairman
Assumed leadership of the company as CEO
and product architect after the 2008 financial
crisis
Musk became the highest paid CEO in the
world, as of 2014 • Reduced annual salary to
one dollar
18. Hyperloop is a mode of land transportation in
which a train travels through a tunnel through
its whole journey.
It was introduced by Elon Musk
It will be the fastest land transport with a speed
of 1220 kmph.