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Elon Musk is one of the great entrepreneurial innovators of our time. Elon Musk is the visionary entrepreneur & charismatic co-founder of “PAY-PAL” and the CEO of electric car maker  “TESLA” as well as the founder of the rocket manufacturer of  SPACEX, NEURALINK, THEBORINGCOMPANY, ZIP2, X.COM&TESELAENERGY.

ELON MUSK is the richest “Forbes World’s  Billionaires List” in 2021. He has an estimated total net worth of Rs.151Billion $.

ELON MUSK A LEGEND BUSINESSMAN IN THE WORLD
ELON MUSK A LEGEND BUSINESSMAN IN THE WORLD

Early Life of Elon Musk:-

ElonReeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother is  Maye Musk a model and a dietitian born in Canada but raised in  South Africa. His father is  Errol Musk a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant and property developer.

He is the oldest among the three children. His brother  Kimbal Musk is a venture capitalist and environmentalist.

His sister, Toska Musk is an award-winning producer and a Director. After his parents Divorced in 1980, Elon musk lived with his father in Pretoria South Africa.

At the age of 10, Elon Musk developed an interest in computing and video games and acquired a “Commodore VIC-20”.

He learned computer programming using a manual and at the age of 12, he sold the code of a Basic video game he created called “ Blaster to PC  and office Technology” for approximately 23,260Crore USD$

“IF YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND THINK THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE BETTER, IT IS A BRIGHT DAY.OTHERWISE, IT IS NOT “-ELON MUSK

ELON MUSK WITH HIS 2ND WIFE GRIMES
ELON MUSK WITH HIS 2ND WIFE GRIMES

Education Of Elon Musk:-

Elon Musk arrived in Canada through a Canadian passport through his born mother in the year 1989.

He lived with his second cousin” Saskatchewan” for a year. He worked very odd jobs at a farm and a lumber mill. In 1990, he entered Queen’s University of  Pennsylvania.  He graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics. In 1995.

He was accepted to a Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D)programme in materials science at Stanford University in California. He dropped out of Stanford after two days, deciding instead to join the internet boom and launches a startup.

“PEOPLE WORK BETTER  WHEN THEY KNOW  WHAT GOAL IS  AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT  THAT PEOPLE  LOOK FORWARD  TO COMING  TO WORK  IN THE MORNING  AND ENJOYING WORKING”-ELON MUSK

SPACEX NEW FALCON 9 ROCKET
SPACEX NEW FALCON 9 ROCKET

Elon Musk Business World:- 

ZIP-2:-In 1995 at the age of 23 Elon Musk and his friends  Kimbal, Greg Kauri founded the web Company “ZIP-2” with funds from Angel Investors.

The company developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry, with maps, directions and yellow pages.

Before the company was successful, he could not afford an apartment and instead rented an office and spent on the couch and showered at the YMCA.

According to musk, he was, coding at night, seven days a week all the time. The musk brother obtained contracts with  The New York Times, and Chicago  Tribune.

 In the year 1999 Compaq acquired  ZIP-2 for 307 Million $ in cash & musk received 22Million$ for his 7% share.

“WHAT MAKES INNOVATIVE THINGS HAPPEN? I THINK IT IS MINDSET. YOU HAVE TO DECIDE.”-ELON MUSK

X.COM:-In 1999  Elon Musk, co-founded X.COM. This is an online financial service and e-mail payment company.

The startup was one of the first federally insured online banks, and in its initial months of operation over 200,000 customers joined the services.

The company,s investors regarded  Musk as inexperienced and had him replaced with  IntuitCEO Bills  Harris by the end of the year.

The following year X.COM merged with online bank  Confinity to avoid the competition.

 

PayPal:-Pay pal is an American e-commerce company formed in March-2000 by Elon Musk. It is specialized in  Internet money transfers.

It was heavily used by the  Internet auction company e Bay, which was owned by Pay Pal from 2002 to 2015. Pay Pal was the product of a merger between X.com and Confinity.

This allowed users to make payments on the purchase of goods or exchange money between accounts in secure online transactions. eBay acquired  Pay Pal for 1.5$ billion in October 2002. 

TESLA MOST DEMANDING ELECTRIC CAR MODEL 3
TESLA MOST DEMANDING ELECTRIC CAR MODEL 3

SpaceX:-Space X was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk. Space exploration Technologies Corp. doing business in Space X.

It is an American aerospace manufacturer, a provider of space transportation services. Its corporation headquarter is in Hawthorne, California USA.

SpaceX manufacturers the Falcon9, Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, several rocket engines, Cargo Dargon, crew spacecraft and Starlink communications satellites.

Space X is the first private company to send a space aircraft to a space station. Space X has flown the Falcon 1, Falcon 9 series of rockets over one hundred times.

Space X is developing a satellite internet named  Starlink to provide commercial internet services.

In January 2020, the Starlink constellation became the largest satellite constellation ever launched. Presently near about 9500 employees working in SpaceX.

“WHEN SOMETHING IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH, YOU DO IT EVEN  IF THE ODDS ARE  NOT IN YOUR FAVOUR”-ELON MUSK

 

Tesla:-Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services.

Tesla is one of the world’s most valuable companies with a market capitalization of nearly US1$Trillion.

Tesla was founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla motors. This company name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer  Nikola  Tesla.

In February 2004, with a $6.5 million Investment, X.com founder  Elon musk became the largest shareholder of the company and its chairman.

He has served as CEO since 2008. Tesla began its production of its first car model, The Roadster sports car in 2009.

This was followed by the Model S sedan in 2012. The models SUVin 2015, model 3 in 2017, The model A cross over in 2020.

Model 3 is the all-time best selling plug-in electric car worldwide.

In June 2021, Tesla became the first electric car to sell 1 million units globally. Tesla”s market capitalization reached $1trillion, the sixth company in USA history.

“WORK LIKE HELL. I MEAN YOU JUST HAVE  TO PUT  IN 80 TO 100 HOURS  IN EVERY WEEK. THIS IMPROVES  THE ODDS OF SUCCESS. IF OTHER PEOPLE ARE PUTTING  IN 40 HOURS  WORKWEEKS  AND YOU ARE PUTTING 100 HOURS WORKWEEKS, THEN EVEN  IF YOU ARE DOING  THE SAME THING, YOU KNOW THAT  YOU WILL ACHIEVE  IN FOUR MONTHS  WHAT IT TAKES THEM  A YEAR TO ACHIEVE”-ELON MUSK

 

ELON MUSK WITH HIS FIRST WIFE JUSTINE MUSK
ELON MUSK WITH HIS FIRST WIFE JUSTINE MUSK

Solar City & Tesla Energy:-Solar City Corporation was a publicly-traded company headquartered in Fremont, California.

This company sold and installed solar energy generation systems as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial and industrial customers.

The company was founded on Jyly4, 2006 by Peter and Lyndon Rive. Tesla acquired solar city in 2016 at a cost of approximately $2.6 billion and recognized its solar business into Tesla energy.

NeuraLink:In 2016, Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence(AI).

Creating devices that are embedded in the human brain to facilitate its merging with machines.

The devices also reconcile with the latest improvements in artificial intelligence to stay updated to enhance the memory or allow the devices to communicate with software more effectively.

At a live demonstration in August 2020, Elon Musk described one of their devices as “a Fitbit in your skull”, that could soon cure paralysis, deafness, blindness, and other disabilities.

According to  San Francisco based Neuralink, website, the company, which  ElonmuskLaunched with a half dozen researchers, professors and industry experts. 

In 2016, will eventually implant a computer chip, roughly the size of a chip like a coin, into a human brain via a robot surgeon.

The chip, which Neuralink calls the “ Link” will wirelessly connect the brain to a digital world, starting by connecting to a smartphone.

This results in computing power, according to Elon Musk, which will allow humans to be broadly competitive with rapidly developing  AI.

“PERSISTENCE IS VERY IMPORTANT. YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE UP UNLESS YOU ARE FORCED TO GIVE UP.”-ELON MUSK

 

The Boring Company:-The Boring Company(TBC) is an American fracture and tunnel construction services company founded by Elon musk in the year of 2016.

TBC has completed two tunnels in  Las Vegas for loop travel. It also completed one tunnel for testing loop travel in Los Angeles county.

The Boarding company was initially formed as a subsidiary of SpaceX. It became a separate and fully independent company in the year 2018.

 The Boring Company has completed tunnels in Los Angeles, California, and Los Angeles, Nevada.

elon-musk-kids with wife
elon-musk-kids with wife

Elon musk Family:-

 

Elon Musk met his first wife, Canadian author  Justine Wilson at Queen’s University and they married in the year 2000.

In 2002 their, first child, son Nevada Alexander  Musk, died of sudden infant death syndrome( SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks.

After his death in the year of 2004, Justine Wilson birth twins Xavier and  Griffin followed by triplets  Kai, Saxon and Damian in 2006. The couple divorced in 2008.

In 2008, Elonmusk began dating English actress Talulah Riely and in the year 2010, they married. But Elon musk takes divorced from Riely in the year 2012.

 Again in the year 2013, they remarried. In 2014, he again divorce Riely.

In the year 2018, Elon Musk and Canadian musician  Grimes were dating. Grimes birth to their son in May 2020.

His name was “XAEA-12”.Again his name renames as again” AE A-XII”.But finally, they divorce in the year May 2021. ( Total six children).

 

“ I AM INTERESTED IN THINGS  THAT CHANGE THE WORLD  OR THAT AFFECT  THE FUTURE  AND WONDROUS, NEW TECHNOLOGY  WHERE YOU SEE  IT,  AND YOU ARE LIKE, WOW, HOW DID THAT EVEN  HAPPEN? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?”.-ELON MUSK

 

ELON MUSK-BE EXTRAORDINARY
ELON MUSK-BE EXTRAORDINARY

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS OF ELON MUSK:-

1. At the age of 12, Elon musk created and sold video games to a magazine. The space fighting game is called “ Blaster”. It was sold to PC and office technology magazine for Rs $500.Elon musk worked at a  startup called  “ Rocket science”.

2. Elon musk’s venture was the founding of Zip2, a company that provide maps and business directories to newspaper magazines and later sold to  Compaq for $307million.

3. Pay Pal was founded in 1999. Pay Pal was acquired by eBay for $1.5billion of which $165 million was given to Elon musk in stocks.

4. In 2002, Elon musk was founded by Space  Exploration  Technologies, better known as  SpaceX. Elon Musk launched Falcon 1 in 2006, Falcon 9 in 2010, and Falcon Heavy in 2018.

5. Elon musk had invested his own money into the development of Space X rockets, Currently the company has a $1.6billion  contract with NASA.

6. Due to the development of space X,  musk has managed to reduce the cost of travelling to the space station by up to 90 per cent, which then cost $1 billion per mission now cost is $60 million.

7. Tesla introduced an electric car with futuristic looks and a  battery with a range of  394 km on a single charge.

8. In 2010, Elon musk received the FAI Gold Space  Medal from the federation Aronauitique  International for designing the first privately developed rocket to reach orbit.

9. In 2018, Musk introduced the  Hyperloop,  a transportation system that is theoretically capable of transporting people from  Los Angles to  San Francisco in 90 minutes.

10. Elon musk also owns a James  Bond  Custom car called  Wet Nellie. The wet Nellie is a custom-built  Lotus  Espirit submarine car in the movie, the spy who loved me.

ELON MUSK NO1 ENTERPRENOUR OF THE WORLD IN DANCING MOOD. AT THE TIME LUNCH TESLA MODEL-3 SUV
ELON MUSK NO1 ENTERPRENOUR OF THE WORLD IN DANCING MOOD. AT THE TIME LUNCH TESLA MODEL-3 SUV

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By AJAY PATRA

I am Ajay Kumar Patra. ( M.com & MBA-Finance) with 27years of Accounts & Taxation Experience in Large Manufacturing Units in India. In 2021 I started my own tax consultancy firm called “Ajay Tax consultant”. I started my Digital marketing on my website "www.odiyadigitalworld.com".I have already published more than 100 Blogs on Business, Finance, startups, Digital marketing & Tours & Travel for my viewers.

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