Whenever a car brand is discussed, Tesla is one of the brands that come up, a Payment service like Paypal having 250+ million users, is founded by Elon Musk
Who is Elon Musk and how he made his name to the world?
Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an entrepreneur and business magnate, commonly known as the founder of X.com ( Now Paypal), Tesla, and Ceo of Space X. Musk was born on born June 28, 1971, to a Canadian mother and South African father and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He attended the University of Pretoria for a short time before traveling to Canada at the age of 17 to study at Queen’s University. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and physics. In 1995, he moved to California to attend Stanford University but instead chose to pursue a business career.
Blastar Video Game Created by Musk at Age Of 12
Elon Musk wrote Blastar when he was 12 years old, in 1984. The source code was eventually sold for $500 and published in PC and Office Technology magazine. It’s a simple game that has become a cult favorite. This is based on Tomas Lloret Llinares’ version.
Project Of Zip2 and X.com (current Paypal)
Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk co-founded the online software startup Zip2. In 1999, Compaq bought the company for $307 million. Musk co-founded X.com, an online bank, in the same year, which merged with Confinity to establish PayPal in 2000. In 2002, eBay paid $1.5 million for the company.
Founded Space X and Tesla
Musk created SpaceX, an aircraft manufacturer, and space transportation services company, in 2002, and currently serves as its CEO and CTO. He joined the electric vehicle firm Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product architect in 2004 and became the company’s CEO in 2008. He was a founding member of SolarCity, a solar energy services company that was later purchased by Tesla and renamed Tesla Energy.
Neuralink
Neuralink Corporation is a neurotechnology company developing implantable brain-machine interfaces and was founded by Elon Musk and Max Hodak. Neuralink works by using more than 2,000 electrodes implanted in areas of the monkey’s motor cortex that control hand and arm movements to capture and decode electrical signals from the brain. Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup released footage appearing to show a monkey playing a simple videogame after getting implants of the new technology. The 3-minute video by Neuralink shows Pager, a male macaque with chips embedded on each side of its brain, playing ‘Mind Pong’.
NET WORTH
In January, Elon Musk became the richest person in the world-beating Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos. As of June 2021, his net worth is approximately 152.2 billion USD. As of Dec. 31, Mr. Musk owned about 22.4% of the Tesla shares outstanding, up from 20.8% a year earlier. The billionaire has used his Tesla holdings as collateral to borrow funds.
