Elon Musk By Keyton Alexander About Elon Musk

Elon Musk By Keyton Alexander

About Elon Musk • Birthday: June 28 1971 • Hometown: Pretoria, South Africa • Family: 2 Wives 1 Dead, 6 Children • Education: University of Pennsylvania

Biography • Elon Musk is a South African Billionaire that invented Pay. Pal, Space X and Tesla Motors. He attended multiple universities but he left Stanford after 2 days because of the internet boom.

Innovations • Zip 2 Corporation: Online city guide that he sold for $307 million and $34 million in stocks

Innovations • Pay. Pal: Financial services/Payments company that he sold to e. Bay for 1. 5 Billion in stock while owning 11% of Pay. Pal.

Innovations • Space X: Unlike his other companies he doesn’t plan on selling Space X anytime soon. Space X was made to help space exploration through new technology. But the over arching goal is to build a reusable spacecraft capable of commercial space travel. This goal is very close to being realized as Elon has revealed that they are working on a 31 engine spaceship capable of hold 100 people.

Innovations • Tesla Motors: Elon Musk is Co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors founded in 2003. Tesla is dedicated to producing a mass market of affordable electric cars. Also it has surpassed General Motors in the market.

Innovations • The Boring Company: Made in 2017 it was made to alleviate traffic on major highways and interstates. This is done through tunnels that are dug along highways and interstates. The most major tunnel to date is along Interstate 405 and is 500 feet long but expected to be 2 miles in 4 months.

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