Who is Elon Musk?

Who is Elon Musk? What’s his career? How he became Billionaire? All this we are going to see in this article.

Elon Musk would be the creator of companies like Tesla, Open AI, PayPal, SpaceX and it would bulk up his bank account into the billions. Before Elon Musk would make cameos or movie appearances a minute Black International, The Simpsons, South Park, Why Him, Rick and Morty, the Big Bang Theory, in Iron Man 2. And like Tony Stark Elon would know the world spending his time and energy of some truly miraculous technology advancements. Even Tony's armour had to start somewhere and just like Tony well Elon he got his start hanks to dear old pops and a $28,000 loan which the Elon's credit he was able to transform into a business empire and a personal net worth of over 91.7 billion dollars.

Well finally, it’s not that surprising for a man that was fascinated with computers and engineering from a very young age. In fact he sold his first piece of code at the age of just 13 but like every good story he Elon is full of ups and downs for every SpaceX there's a divorce to go along with it and for every PayPal well another divorce, often times through the same woman don't worry I'll get into all the ins and outs of this as they tell the story of a man who became a multi-millionaire before his 30^th birthday. So documenting the life and career of Elon Musk prior to fame here for you.

EARLY LIFE AND FAMILY

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28^th 1971 in Pretoria South Africa. His mother may she was a model and a dietitian. I guess we know where his good looks came from while her and the hair plugs both of which are clearly miracle-workers. His father Errol was more a regular Joe if you consider being an electromechanical engineer a pilot and a sailor regular and Elon well he grew up alongside his younger siblings his brother Kimball and his sister Tosca.

Well Elon he grew up a big fan of comic books. He told Bloomberg ‘I read all the comics I could buy that they would let me read in the book star before chasing me away’. Now this was a pastime that no doubt came too heavily influenced his passion to inhibitions for the future. Now according to a David Lewis a comic book author and comic’s scholar he had this to say about Elon ‘science-based story lines were at a zenith in comic books around the time musk was a kid in the 80s. It's easy to see how the theme could have sparked Musk's fascination with space travel technology and energy'.

But life is a child it wasn't all gorgeous mothers and comic books for Elon, that was parents they separated in 1980 and his father became his primary caregiver. Now these were traumatic years for the young boy, no money was good but there was a lot of turbulence in his house him and his father they never got along and he actually described his childhood as being miserable, still to this day he doesn't even speak to his dad. Now with a beautiful sized hole left in his heart but Elon he set out to find something to fill away.

He taught himself programming with a Commodore vic-20 and when he was 12 years old he sold his first creation of game called blaster to a magazine called PC and office technology. Elon Musk, he had to deal with being bullied throughout his childhood, now once got so bad that a group of menthey threw him down a flight of stairs and knocked him unconscious which actually landed him in the hospital.

EDUCATION

Now after attending water Clough house preparatory school and then Pretoria Boys High School well Elon, he moved to Canada on his 18th birthday having gained citizenship through his mother. Elon he studied at one of Canada's finest schools Queens University which has produced some remarkable individuals. We're talking about the likes of Tom Cavanagh, Natalia Ricci and Michael Ondattaji but famous people aren't the only thing that Queen's University produces, it also helped produce Zealand's first marriage to Justine Wilson.

Now at this point Elon he was still only a mere mortal himself and after spending two years at Queen's will he jumped around a little bit, now first he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania then at 24 he LAN obtained an undergraduate degree in physics and another economics one from the Wharton School of Business. A PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford was next on the docket but after only two days in his studies well Elon he dropped out to focus on creating new business enterprises.

CAREER

Zip 2

His first success was zipped a start-up he developed with his brother Kimball along with the a firm engine $28,000 loan he secured from his dear old dad, but unlike most of us who take money from our parents with promises of paying it back. So well he lied he was able to make good on his. After just four years zip to was sold and compact for 300 million dollars and over 30 million dollars in stock options.

X.com and PayPal

In 1999 he co-founded a website known only as XCOM which would one day turn into the world's leading financial service website that allowed people to email money back and forth and after only one year he was able to merge XCOM with another company and from that beautiful union while PayPal was born. And 2002 eBay bought new creation for 1.5 billion with Elon personally taking home around 165 million.

SpaceX

No after receiving his pay out from PayPal Elon he invested 100 million in a SpaceX tasked with developing and manufacturing space crafts of rockets. No NASA would quickly latch on to the company providing them with billion dollar contracts to become the largest private producer of rocket motors in the world. Now this privatization of space was a controversial decision and one that the Titans of the industry and like Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cerrone.

No despite his real-life heroes not wanting anything to do with them well Elon he pushed ever onward. In 2008 the company launched its first privately funded liquid fueled vehicle that successfully placed the satellite in orbit. They followed this up by becoming the first private company to launch and birth a vehicle to the International Space Station this was in 2012. But backed on the ground in the real world all of these accomplishments paled in comparison to the Elon's work with Tesla. A company he has become completely synonymous with.

Tesla

Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marked Happening. The following years when Elon invested in the company and became the chairman of the board. Now he loves interest in the company its stem more from the creative side and he was often involved with the product design and he didn't really have to deal with the day-to-day business side of the operation.

Now it was around this time that Elon he finally started to settle into the wider consciousness of the people of the world around him and he emerged as a public figure he even got a small cameo in the movie ‘Thank you for Smoking’.

Solar City

Now in 2006 Elon he created Solar City which would go on become the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States. Solar City Corporation is the subsidiary of Tesla. It is headquartered in Fremont, California. This company is in partnership with Panasonic. It develops, sell products and provide services in solar technologies and batteries. Products and services are Solar Leasing, Solar Rentals, Commercial Solar, Electric Vehicle Charger, Solar Strong Project, Energy Storage, Solar Roof etc.

Now even the 2008 financial crisis it couldn't keep Elon down. Now that's the year he became the CEO of Tesla and the company quickly gained wide spread attention for the Tesla Roadster, the world's first electric sports car. But at the home front well discord reared its ugly head once again. Now Elon and Justine they separated.

Hyperloop

Elon Musk first publicly mentioned the Hyperloop in 2012. A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of transportation, first used to describe an open source vac train designed released by joint team of Tesla and SpaceX.

Imagine traveling non-stop at up to 670 mph above land or underground. This is Hyperloop, a new mode of transportation. It starts with an electric motor, which is broken up into two basic components: the rotor, which rotates, and the stator, which is stationary. The stator is an electro-magnet, so when an electric current passes through it, the rotor is magnetically attracted to spin. Unlike a normal electric motor, the Hyperloop motor isn't circular; it's linear. And the rotor is on the pod, which is propelled magnetically as it moves over the stator. Hyperloop unique technology uses magnetic levitation to guide and lift the pod off the track.

Nearly all of the air inside the Hyperloop tube is removed using a series of vacuum pumps. This effectively creates our own sky inside the tube, as if you're quietly flying at 200,000 feet above sea level. This reduces drag, so only the smallest amount of electricity is needed to achieve extraordinary speeds and creates a more cost and energy-efficient system than high speed rail or airline transport.

The Hyperloop Alpha concept was first published in August 2013, proposing and examining a route running from the Los Angeles region to the San Francisco Bay Area. Hyperloop system would propel passenger along the 560 km route at a speed of 1500 km/h, allowing travel time of 35 minutes, which is faster than current rail or air travel time.

The Hyperloop concept has been explicitly “open sourced” by Musk and SpaceX, and others have been encouraged to take the ideas and further develop them.

Open AI

Elon has since gone back to his roots dating yet another Canadian artist. No more recently Elon has founded a non-profit artificial intelligence research company called OpenAI. OpenAI is an Artificial Intelligence research and development company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI was founded on 11 December 2015 and headquartered at San Francisco, California, US. It was founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, but Elon Musk resigned from the board in February 2018.

Neuralink

Back in 2015, Professor Pedram Mohseni and Rudolph J. Nudo created a start-up called ‘NeuraLink’. These pair of neurotech researchers had developed a device that could potentially help people suffering from brain injuries. Investors didn’t show a great deal of interest, but in 2016 a mysterious unknown investor came along with an offer to purchase the rights to the name, Neuralink, for tens of thousands of dollars. They sold, and that investor later turned out to be multi billionaire, Elon Musk.

Fast forward to the 27th of March 2017 and Musk announces that he will be backing a new brain-computer interface venture, Neuralink. The ultimate goal of this new company is to merge man with machine, fusing human intelligence with artificial intelligence to bring humanity up to a higher level of cognitive reasoning. Without this technology, Musk argues that humans will be unable to keep pace with advances in artificial intelligence, and that humans will become the intellectual equivalent of the house cat.

So far, Musk has been calling this brain-computer interface technology ‘neural lace’. In essence, neural lace is an ultra-thin mesh that is implanted in the skull, and forms a body of electrodes which are able to monitor brain function. It’s not entirely clear at this time how far along the technology is in its development phase. But eventually, neural lace should enable humans to upload or download information directly from a computer.

In order to insert neural lace, a tiny needle which contains the rolled up mesh is placed inside the skull, whereby the mesh is then injected. The mesh unravels upon injection, encompassing the brain. Gradually, the neural lace will integrate itself with the human brain, creating a perfect symbiosis between man and machine. So far, neural lace has been tested on live mice. Upon autopsy, researchers found little negative consequences associated with the insertion of this mesh-like structure.

This technology sounds amazing. The ability to hook up our brains with machines and thereby enhance human intelligence could open up whole new worlds of possibilities for our species.

The Boring Company

The Boring Company is an American infrastructure and tunnel construction services company founded by Elon Musk in December 2016. It is headquartered at Hawthorne, California.

December 2016, when Elon Musk was stuck in a traffic jam, he thought an idea for his company, “The Boring Company” which digs tunnels so that the cars can reach anywhere faster using those tunnels. In 2017, Boring Company sold 50,000 hats and raise 700,000 USD and next year they sold 20,000 units of “Not a Flame Thrower” and raised 10 million dollars.

PERSONAL LIFE

Elon Musk married Justine Wilson. A woman who would become a successful author in her own merit. Know well his career may have been going well Elon personal life was anything but around the time of his big eBay buy out in 2002 well Elon first child died at just ten weeks old. This was from sudden infant death syndrome but of course there's one thing you could say about Elon Musk he doesn't let anything stand in his way.

By 2004 Elon's business success was finally beginning to dovetail with personal success, this was with the help of invitro fertilization Justine and Elon they gave birth to a set of twins Xavier and Griffin. In the year 2006 Elon and Justine they would welcome a set of triplets into the world. Damian, Saxon and Kai.

In 2008 Elon and Justine they separated and he quickly began dating English actress Tallulah Riley. 2010 was a watershed year in the life of Elon Musk, not only did he marry Tallulah but he also appeared in Iron Man 2 standing shoulder to shoulder and hair plug to hair plug with Tony Stark. Now he followed this up with further appearances on shows like South Park, The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory and movies like ‘Why Him’.

But then 2012 came along to throw yet another monkey wrench into his personal life. Elon and Tallulah well they got divorced, only it didn't take and then they got remarried in 2013. Elon he then filed for divorce again the next year and you think that would be the end of it but then he cancelled that request for the divorce. And the two they would stay together for a further three years but by 2016 their divorce finally took.

Musk began dating actress Amber Heard in 2016, but they broke up a year later due to their intense schedules.