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ELON MUSK

WHO IS ELON MUSK? Ø Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur, inventor, and engineer. Ø Elon Musk is South African and he is the wealthiest in South Africa Ø He is the founder of Space x, Tesla, Pay. Pal and Ø Zip 2 Ø He was born in June 28 th, 1971.

ELON MUSK'S CHILDHOOD Ø Elon Musk was born in June 28 th, 1971 in Pretoria Transvaal South Africa Ø Elons mom was born in Canada and his Dad, Errol was born in South Africa. Ø Elon has a younger brother and a younger sister and his the eldest in his family. Ø During his childhood he really enjoyed reading books.

CONNECTION TO CANADA Ø At his age 17, Elon musk traveled to Canada to have good life with his Mom, Maye. Ø He wanted to go to Canada to start something new and try to make the world a better place. Ø His mother was born in Canada and had her Canadian citizenship.

EDUCATION Ø Went to Pretoria’s Boys High School Ø He was really intelligent and use to get good grades in school Ø He used to get bullied at school when he was in South Africa Ø He went to Stanford University in 1995. Ø Two years in Queen University and later transferred to Stanford University. Ø Musk Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics

PERSONAL LIFE Ø Elon Musk has a wife named, ”Talulah Jane Rilley-Milburn and she was professional English actress. Ø Elon has six children Ø His eldest in his family Ø He is the Ceo, and lead designer of Space X Ø He has South Africa, Canada and U. S citizenship.

TIMELINE OF ALL COMPANIES 1995 § Bought mapping from Navtech • Made transactions easier for people. • They made launching rockets affordable and efficient. • They made electric cars to stop people from using fossil fuel 2016 2015 § They make friendly artificial intelligence 2006 2003 2002 1998 • They made solar panels to stop people from using fossil fuel. 2016 They make a underground tunnel for cars to go somewhere faster. They are trying to allow human mentally interact with devices around them.

ELONS ADVERSITY Ø Financial Crisis of 2007 -2008 when Tesla needed cash to fund the Tesla Model S. To solve this solution Elon gave his own money that he earned from Pay. Pal to save the Tesla company. Ø When Elons rockets weren't successful, they would keep blowing up. Space X spent 16 months trying to prove that’s it is possible to land one of his rockets. After all this failures Elon didn’t give up he knew that he could do it.

TESLA Ø Tesla was founded in July 1 st, 2003, San Carlos, California, United States. Ø NASDAQ and e. Bay are the stakeholders. Ø Tesla’s mission is to transition to sustainable energy. They want people to drive electric cars instead of gasoline cars. They want to prove that people don’t need to compromise to drive electric cars, they want people to know that electric cars are better, quicker and more fun to drive. Ø Tesla manufactures electric cars and sells them at reasonable price for people to buy. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=8_lfx. PI 5 Ob. M Ø Tesla vehicles are environment friendly, zero emission, and is electric vehicle that wont pollute. Ø They have 45, 000 employees working at Tesla. Ø Tesla main competitors are, BMW, Nissan, Volkswagen and Hyundai. Ø In my opinion the company will be really successful because they making a lot money, they starting a new future for electric cars, they want everyone to drive vehicles that are environment friendly and there cars really nice that will make people want to buy it. Ø Yes, I would like work at Tesla because it’s a successful company, I want to see how they make electric vehicles, I want to meet Elon Musk. It will be great experience for me working at Tesla.

SPACE X Ø Space X was founded in May 6, 2002 Ø Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell were the stakeholders for Space X Ø Elons purpose for space x is, he wants reduce space transportation costs and try to colonize mars by 2024. Ø It helps reduce transportation costs for going to space they make the price low so its not that expensive. They made a spacecraft named, Falcon and Dragon which both deliver payloads into the earths orbit. Ø Space X manufactures rockets in cheap way. They made the rockets useable that they don’t need to spend that much money making the rockets again. Theydo orbital rocket launch as a service. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=uj. X 6 Cu. RELFE Ø Space X has 7, 000 employees working for Space X. Ø Blue Origin and Nasa are Space X main competitors. Ø Space X will be really successful because the amount money they earned Space X, they are first ones that stated to find a way to reduce costs for space transportation and how there planning to colonize mars by 2024. Ø Yes, I would like to work at Space X because its a really successful company, I like how there making reusable rockets to reduce the cost to go to space and I really want to go to mars and stay there, it will be a amazing experience.

Ø Solar city was founded in July 4 th 2006 SOLAR CITY Ø Tesla is Solar City’s stakeholders. Ø Solar city's purpose is to make big difference in fight against climate change. They want people to move renewable energy and not pollute. Solar. City wants everyone to save energy, they want people to have solar panels on their roofs, they want find renewable way that climate change doesn’t get worse. Ø This company help the society by helping go to renewable energy in a cheap way. It won’t cost that much. Installing solar panels on your roof help greenhouses gas emissions and make you less dependent on fossil fuel. Ø Solar City manufactures solar panels for people want solar panels on their roof. The service that they do is install panels on people houses in North America. https: //vimeo. com › Sun & Sky Solutions › Videos Ø Solar. City has 15, 000 employees working for the company. Ø Vivint Solar, Sunrun, Verengo and Sungevity are Solar. City's competitors. Ø I think the company will be really successful because this company has lot of hard working employees working for the company and their earning a lot of money. This company can change the future, and have every house a solar panel on their roof. Ø Yes, I would work at Solar. City because it’s a successful company, I want to see how they create solar panels and install them onto the roofs of people houses. It will be a great experience for me.

SOURCES Ø https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Elon_Musk Ø https: //www. biography. com/people/elon-musk-20837159 Ø https: //www. spacex. com/elon-musk Ø https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Tesla, _Inc. Ø https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Solar. City Ø https: //www. tesla. com/en_CA/blog/tesla-and-solarcity

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