Elon Musk is a man of many accomplishments. One of his companies, Tesla, is popularizing electric cars and revolutionizing the automotive industry. Another, SpaceX, is finally bringing the Americans back to space after nine years of relying on Russian missiles.
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He even designed a potentially revolutionary transportation system, Hyperloop, and opened the idea to anyone interested in making it a reality. Today Elon Musk turns 50 and here we bring you some interesting facts about him that you probably didn’t know.
Elon Musk has a game when he was 12. developed
“When Elon was young, I noticed that he had read everything,” Maye Musk wrote in her book | Photo: Maye Musk
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Elon Musk developed a game called BLASTER when he was 12 years old. He then sold that game to the PC & Office Technology Company for $ 500. He developed the game BLASTER using a computer called the Commodore vic 20. The online version of this game is still available on the internet.
Elon Musk’s meal budget of $ 1
Elon Musk spends more than 12 hours a day reading books. During his college days, he spent less than $ 1 on his daily meal and bought hot dogs and oranges in bulk.
Elon Musk has turned the house into a night club
Elon Musk with one of his sons | Photo: Elon Musk
Elon Musk once rented a friend’s house and turned the house into a nightclub for his college friends every weekend evening. The entrance fee to this nightclub at the time was $ 5, sometimes more than 500 people would come into the nightclub which means it was making $ 2500 a night every weekend.
Elon Musk’s beginning
In 1995 Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk started a software company called Zip2. It worked like Google Maps. The Zip 2 was sold by Musk to COMPAQ in 1999 for $ 307 million.
Elon Musk’s first car
Elon Musk in 1995 | Photo: Maye Musk
In 1999 he bought his first car, a McLaren F1. But after a few years, because he couldn’t afford insurance for this car, he sold it.
Elon Musk – Paypal
In 1999, Elon Musk founded x.com, a financial services company, by investing $ 10 million. A year later, x.com merged with a company called Confinity. What later became known as PayPal. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $ 1.5 billion, of which Elon Musk’s stake was $ 165 million.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
Elon Musk turns 50 today | Photo: AFP
Musk became Tesla’s CEO in 2008, and Solar City became Tesla’s second largest solar power system provider in the United States in 2013
Elon Musk’s AI fear
Although Musk founded two artificial intelligence companies (Neuralink and OpenAI) and makes extensive use of the technology in Tesla vehicles, Musk is one of those who fear this will bring the end of mankind.
Elon Musk is born
Elon Musk’s mom Maye Musk shares a rare, unseen photo of Tesla CEO | on his birthday Photo: Maye Musk
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa to the successful engineer Errol Musk and built a life as an entrepreneur and investor and Maye Musk, a Canadian-South African model and nutritionist, where he spent most of his childhood until he moved to Canada moved the age of 17.
Elon Musk’s citizenship
Elon Musk is a citizen of three countries – South Africa, Canada and the United States of America. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
The training of Elon Musk
Elon Musk celebrates his 18th birthday in 1989 | Photo: Maye Musk
Elon Musk received two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he moved to California to study physics at Stanford. Surprisingly, he gave up after two days to start his company Zip2 Corporation.
Elon Musk’s children
Musk has six children, all boys. His first wife gave birth to twins named Xavier Musk and Griffin Musk in 2004 and triplets named Kai Musk, Saxon Musk and Damian Musk in 2006. In 2018, Musk began dating Canadian singer Claire Elise Boucher and two years later he had a son with her named X Æ A-Xii Musk.
Elon Musk’s company
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils SpaceX’s new seven-seat Dragon V2 spacecraft on May 29, 2014 in Hawthorne, California | Photo: AFP
Elon Musk has founded a total of eight companies so far – Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Elon Musk Salaries in Germany
Elon Musk only earns an annual salary of 1 from Tesla when most of its wealth comes from its share of inventory.
Elon Musk’s Hollywood debut
Scene where Elon Musk meets Tony Stark in Iron Man (2010) | Photo: Youtube
Musk has appeared in American sitcoms such as The Big Bang Theory, Simpsons, and South Park, and appeared in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 alongside Robert Downey Jr.
Fan of X-Men
The Tesla CEO is a huge fan of the X-Men because he once decided to name some of the robots in his Tesla facility after mutated superheroes like Xavier, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus and Iceman.
Elon Musk was bullied as a child
Kimbal Musk (L), Maye Musk and Elon Musk 1996 | Photo: Maye Musk
At 15 he learned karate, judo and wrestling because he was bullied a lot in his class. He was beaten almost to death after a group of boys pushed him down a flight of stairs.
Elon Musk fortune Mus
Today, Elon Musk is the second richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 165.9 billion, according to Forbes.
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