By: Muhsinun Chowdhury Elon Musk By: Muhsinun Chowdhury

Biography Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa in the province of Gauteng, but he’s Canadian American His parents were Errol Musk (father) and Maye Musk (mother) He taught himself computer programming when he was 12 He coded his first game called “Blastar” at 12 and sold it for $500 to PC and Office Technology, a magazine When he was 17, he moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University, hence his Canadian American status

Biography Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania In 1995, he took classes for a PhD in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University for a month before dropping out After dropping out, he co-founded Zip2, basically the first online Yellow Pages, with his brother, Kimbal Musk After Compaq bought that company for $340 million, he began working on X.com, which was to be later merged with Confinity, be renamed to PayPal, and be bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002 In 2002, he founded SpaceX, which he is currently CEO of

Biography SpaceX’s goal was to create a reusable rocket, thus saving millions of dollars in wasted one-time-use rockets It achieved its first successful landing and recovery in December 2015 He co-founded Tesla in 2003 Tesla is an electric car company and further pushes his dream of predominant renewable energy In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity and is currently its chairman In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI In July 2016, he founded Neuralink

Biography In December 2016, he founded The Boring Company (which is anything but boring!) He started hyping up hats for the Boring Company and said that after those sold out he would begin selling flamethrowers He wasn’t lying; he started selling flamethrowers and soon sold out... He also also proposed the Hyperloop, bringing together many highly educated engineers Another one of his proposed ideas is known as the “Musk electric jet,” which is basically an electric supersonic jet with electric propulsion

Biography He dreams of starting a colony of humans on Mars and living there himself one day Currently, Tesla and SpaceX are the most hyped up companies and are changing the world The stock prices rise every time anything happens or is released He puts a lot of thought into his decisions He had a master plan for Tesla which he followed and successfully achieved

Reflection Elon Musk is the real Iron Man. He is the only one in the world who is currently pushing for renewable energy reform. He’s an environmentalist and is one of the few business owners who actually cares about the environment. He came from nothing and he manages to create hype for everything he does. When he released his semi-truck, he generated TONS of hype! Who else can generate so much hype for a semi-truck?!

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