Elon Musk
Born: 28 June 1971 {age 50 years}, Pretoria, South Africa
Wife: Justine Wilson [m. 2000; div. 2008], Talulah Riley [m. 2010- 2012] [m. 2013- 2016].
Net worth: 16,870 crores USD.
Children: X AE A-Xii, Nevada Alexander Musk, Xavier Musk, Griffin Musk.
Partner: Grimes
Education: University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University.
Relatives: Maye Musk [ Mother], Errol Musk [Father]
Kimbal Musk[Brother],Tosca Musk[Sister].
Musk Childhood and Family
Elon musk his Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother is Maye musk (Nee Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchevan, Canada, but raised in South Africa. His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer. Musk has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974). His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an American-born Canadian, and Musk has British and Pennysylvania Dutch ancestry. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with his father in Pretoria and elsewhere, a choice he made two years after the divorce and subsequently regretted. Musk has become estranged from his father, whom he describes as "a terrible human being... Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.
Elon's World
Elon Musk near the very eng of a long dinner we shared at a high- end seafood restaurant in Silicon Valley. I'd gotten to the restaurant first and settled down with a gin and tonic, knowing Musk would -- as ever-- be late. After about fifteen minutes, Musk showed up wearing leather shoes, designer jeans, and and a plaid dress shirt.
Musk stands six foot one but ask anyone who knows him and they'll confirm that he seems much bigger than that. He's absurdly broad- shouldered, sturdy, and thick. You'd figure he would use this frame to his advantage and perform an alpha- male strut when entering a room. Instead, he tends to be almost sheepish. It's head tilted slightly down while walking, a quick handshake hello after reaching the table, and then but in seat.
Musk's ready willingness to tackle impossible things has turned him into a deity in Silicon Valley, where fellow CEOs like Page speak of him in reverential awe, and budding entrepreneurs strive "to be like Elon" just as they had been striving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs. Silicon Valley, though, operates within a warped version of reality, and outside the confines of its shared fantasy, Musk often comes off as much more polarizing figure. He's the guy with the electric cars, solar panels, and rockets peddling false hope. Forget Steve Jobs.
Elon's First Start- Up
In the Summer of 1994, Musk and his brother, Kimbal, took their first steps toward becoming honest-to-God Americans. They set off on a road trip across the country. Kimbal had been working as a franchisee for College Pro Painters and done well for himself, running what amounted to a small business. He sold off his part of the franchise and pooled the money with Musk had on hand to buy a beat-up 1970s BMW 320i.
The brothers began their trip near San Francisco in August, as temperatures in California soared. The first part of the drive took them down to Needles, a city in the Mojave Desert. There they experienced the sweaty thrill of 120- degree weather in a car with no air- conditioning and learned to love pit stops at Carl's Jr. burger joints, where they spent hours recuperating in the cold.
X.Com And Paypal Mafia boss
The sale of ZIP2 infused Elon Musk with A new Brand of Confidence. Much like the video- game characters he adored, Musk had leveled up. He had solved Silicon Valley and become what everyone at the time wanted to be--a dot- com millionaire. His next venture would need to live up to his rapidly inflating ambition. this left Musk searching for an industry that had tons of money and inefficiencies that he and the Internet could exploit.
Musk began thinking back to his time as an intern at the Bank of nova Scotia. His big takeaway from that job, that bankers are rich and dumb, now had the feel of a massive opportunity.
Elon Musk Turned Thirty in June 2001, and the birthday hit him hard. "I' am no longer a child prodigy," he told Justine, only half joking. That same month X.com officially changed its name to PayPal.
Mice In Space
Musk had picked Los Angeles with intent. It gave him access to space or at least the space industry. Southern California's mild, consistent weather had made it a favored city of the aeronautics industry since the 1920s, when the Lockheed Aircraft Company set up shop in Hollywood. Howard Hughes, the U.S Air Force, NASA, Boeing, and myriad other people and organizations have performed much of their manufacturing and cutting- edge experimentation in and around Los Angeles.
Today the city remains a major hub for the military's aeronautics work and commercial activity. While Musk didn't know exactly what he wanted to do in space, he realized that just by being in Los Angeles he would be surrounded by the world,s top aeronautics thinkers. They could help him refine any ideas, and there would be plenty of recruits to join his next venture.
the SpaceX executives Musk hired were an all- star crew. Mueller set to work right away building the two engines-- Merlin and Kestrel, named after two types of falcons. Chris Thompson, a onetime marine who had managed the production of the Delta and Titan rockets at Boeing, joined as the vice president of operations. Tim Buzza also came from beoing, where he'd earned a reputation as one of the world's leading rocket testers. Steve Johnson, who had worked at JPL and at two commercial space companies, was tapped as the senior mechanical engineer.Musk also recruited Gwynne Shotwell, an veteran who started as Space'X first salesperson and rose in the years that followed to be president and Musk's right-hand man.
Tesla company
The Elon musk co-founded and leads Tesla, Neuralink and The Boring Company.As the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon leads all product design, engineering and global manufacturing of the company's electric vehicles, battery products and solar energy products.
Since the company’s inception in 2003, Tesla’s mission has been to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. The first Tesla product, the Roadster sports car, debuted in 2008, followed by the model S sedan, which was introduced in 2012, and the Model X SUV, which launched in 2015. Model S received Consumer Reports’ Best Overall Car and has been named the Ultimate Car of the Year by Motor Trend, while Model X was the first SUV ever to earn 5-star safety ratings in every category and sub-category in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s tests. In 2017, Tesla began deliveries of Model 3, a mass-market electric vehicle with more than 320 miles of range, and unveiled Tesla Semi , which is designed to save owners at least $200,000 over a million miles based on fuel costs alone. In 2019, Tesla unveiled Cybertruck, which will have better utility than a traditional truck and more performance than a sports car, as well as the Model Ycompact SUV, which began customer deliveries in early 2020.
Elon Musk Quotes For Success
- Never Give Up
- Really Like What You Do
- Don't Listen to the LittleMan
- Take a Risk
- Look For Problem Solvers
- Do Something Important
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