Elon Musk

Person who is single handedly changing the world. 🌎

1971 - Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.
1983 - Musk sold a simple game called "Blastar" to a computer magazine for $500.
1989 - Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University and avoid mandatory service in the South African military.
1995 - Musk launched his first company, Zip2 Corporation, in 1995 with his brother, Kimbal Musk.
1999 - Elon and Kimbal Musk used the money from their sale of Zip2 to found X.com, an online financial services/payments company.
2002 - Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel.
2003 - Musk is the co-founder, CEO and product architect at Tesla Motors, a company formed in 2003 that is dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars as well as battery products and solar roofs.
2016 - In August 2016, in Musk’s continuing effort to promote and advance sustainable energy and products for a wider consumer base, a $2.6 billion dollar deal was solidified to combine his electric car and solar energy companies.
2017 - Musk launched The Boring Company, a company devoted to boring and building tunnels in order to reduce street traffic.

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