Life is too short to limit your talents. Being the founder and CEO of Tesla, Spacex, The Boring Company, Neuralink and OpenAI , Elon musk is a business tycoon and was born into the opportunity as well as the responsibility to become legendary.
FAMILY
Elon Musk was born on 27th June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His father, Errol Musk was an electromechanical engineer and mother, Maye Musk is a model and a nutritionist who was born in Canada. With parents being professional in their fields he grew up is an engineering sort of environment. He have American ancestors, his grandfather was an American who shifted to South Africa with his family for exploration because he was an archeologist and liked to explore things. Also he was the first person to fly from South Africa to Australia.
Elon Musk’s name is exotic for people. But he was named after his grandfather, John Elon Haldeman . His sister, Tosca Musk is a film maker and his brother Kimbal Musk is a restaurateur, chef and an entrepreneur. His first wife was Justine musk who is a Canadian author and they have 6 children together. They tied knots in 2000 and separated their ways in 2008.
His second wife, Talulah Riley, is a british actress. They were married in 2010 but got divorced in 2012, however only to remarry. Their marriage lasted till 2016 and later they got divorced again in 2016. The founder then dated Amber Heard for a year.
Claire Elise Boucher, known as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, and the ex girlfriend of Elon Musk. They started dating in 2018 and ended up in 2021. Natasha Bassett is an Australian actress and a model and is the current girlfriend of Elon Musk.
Education
Musk was fond of video games and he became inquisitive for them. He believed building games built a whole new world. In order to make money to buy a new computer Musk commenced learning programming at 10 and he made a space game called Blaster and sold it to a computer magazine at the age of 12. From that point there was no turning back because ideas are worth nothing unless bagged by application. Therefore his knowledge and education in programming started at an early age with self study.
He even took tuitions but he knew more than the teacher does so it was not of great help.
After completing his high schooling from Pretoria Boys High School, he completed his degree in computer engineering from the Queen’s University, Ontario.
Later in US, at the University of Pennsylvania, he did a dual degree in business and physics in the third year and finished his Bachelor of Economics and Physics because he wanted to have knowledge of business as well. So he did hard work as much possible as the saying goes ‘one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war’. After that he initiated a PhD in Energy Physics from Stanford University California, but dropped off after 1st year.l because he didn’t find it to his interests
CAREER
First in 1995, Mark along with his brother founded Zip2, an online business directory the first enterprise by Musk. The company did not perform well and was a pain for Elon Musk. Later in 1999 Compaq Computers bought Zip2 in USD 306 million. But done is better than nothing. He proceeded towards his next project.
In 1999, Musk founded an online banking app together with 3 co founder which was named as X.com. It was an innovative concept at that time to digitally transfer funds because it eased the process of traditional banking system and came into a new hype. Soon Musk collaborated with confinity inc. a software company.
Then in 2000, the merged company changed its name to PayPal, a secure online payment service provider. After PayPal become a success and a utmost choice of internet auction shoppers eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002.
Then after in 2002, Elon changed in field from computer technology to space exploration. He founded SpaceX ,Space Exploration Technologies Corp., a satellite manufacturing spaceflight company also aiming for Mars Colonization.
Later in 2002, he also founded The Musk foundation, which is least, discussed socially. He and his brother are the soul owners and officers of the foundation. The foundation provides grants in support of;
- Renewable energy research and advocacy.
- Human space exploration research and advocacy.
- Pediatric research.
- Science and engineering education.
- Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.
Finally in 2004, revolutionary company in terms of car and technology was founded namely Tesla. It was named after Nikola Tesla. It was founded in 2003 and eventually the investment of $6.5million made Elon active and the CEO in 2008. The model 3 is the most populous car with over one million units sold worldwide. Its 2022 quarter 1 revenue counts to be 1876 crore USD.
By 2006 Solarcity came into light. It was founded by his cousins and Elon was the financial supporter. It became the leading solar energy installing solar systems leased to residential users. In 2016 musk acquired Solarcity for $2.6 billion and incorporated it in Tesla Energy.
Afterthat in 2015 he founded OpenAI which is an artificial intelligence reasearch and development company to ensure artificial intelligence benefits to all humanity. In 2018 he decided to exit from the company over a dispute about its development.
In 2016, Neuralink is a neurotechnology company developing brain – machine interfaces to connect humans and machines. It is a future technology to enable humans to operate machines with their brains. It implies people with paralysis can communicate directly with their brains. The human trials with start in 2022.
Again later the following year I.e. 2016, The Boring Company a side project of Elon musk was found. In Elon’s autobiography he stated “the boring company is like 2% of my time” maybe because he believed that the smallest of implementations is always worth more than the greatest of intensions. For him it is an important technology because if tunneling technology could be improved to the point where tunnels can be built fast, cheap and safe then that could completely get rid of traffic situations in cities. Lately in 2022, Elon bought Twitter for $44 billion.
He decided to make Twitter better than ever” by “enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.”.
Limitation is nothing more than a mentality and Elon musk has proved that by renouncing the common delusion. He is a great personality for all of us today because he and his life taught many lessons to us. One of the key lessons everybody should attain is that if living a legendary life was easy, everyone would be doing it.