Elon Musk By Sahib Nijjar UpbringingChildhood Born on
Elon Musk By: Sahib Nijjar
Upbringing/Childhood Born on June 28 th, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. Maye, his mother was a Canadian born model. Errol, his father was an electromechanical engineer born in South Africa. Musk was a very quiet child as well as a studious young boy. His parents divorced when he was 10 years old, and Musk mostly lived with his father.
Upbringing/Childhood (CONTINUED) Musk would get bullied a lot. Musk was the bullies prime target, even getting his best friend to lure Musk out of hiding to get to Musk. Lead to more beatings from the bullies. At 17, Musk moved to Canada to avoid joining the South African military.
Education When Elon was in Pretoria, he transferred from Bryanston High school to Pretoria Boys High School. First went to Queens University from 1990 to 1992. Later went to Stanford to get a Ph. D in energy physics but dropped out after 2 days to make Zip 2.
Personal Life Was married to Justine Musk from 2000 -2008, ended after a “messy divorce” says Justine. Married Talulah Riley (Actress) from 2010 -2012, and got remarried in 2013, but only lasted until 2016.
Brief Timeline of Companies Musks first company was Zip 2, a software that licensed city guide software. It was founded in 1995 and sold for $307 Million to Compaq. Musk then used that money to make X. com (Todays Paypal), and sold it to Ebay in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. It’s the main and most widely used software to purchase items online today. Learned how to make rockets from books, so he founded Space. X with his own money and is going up against NASA! Founded in 2002. Founds Tesla in 2003, and cements the new electrical cars that are used today. At first it was a rocky road, but Musk went to his last penny to ensure the success of his vehicles, and it paid off, as today he is worth $22 billion
Adversity Elon Musk had to live his life in Pretoria basically in hiding. He was a prime target by the bullies at his school, this caused him to transfer to a completely different school just because of how tough it was for Musk to be left alone from the bullies. Elon Musk has been voted out by his own companies multiple times. He was voted out from being CEO of his first company Zip 2, as well as voted out of being CEO of Pay. Pal…. While he was on his honeymoon.
Open. AI Founded December 11, 2015 Non-profit organization Purpose: Upgrade and introduce Artificial intelligence to help better the world 108 employees I would love to work here because I am very fascinated by AI, and id love to learn all about how and what it takes to create such inventions. I do feel it will be successful and the leader in creating massive AI creations.
Boring December 17, 2016 The Boring Company’s parent company is Space. X. Infrastructure and Tunnel company made by Elon musk, first thought of when Musk realized the traffic issues of Los Angeles. Purpose: To build underground tunnels to make transportation around the city much quicker and convenient. 2, 000 employees I think this company will be successful in accomplishing its goal to unite cities with tunnels. I personally would not like to work for this company as I don’t think id have much fun making tunnels.
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