[Www.247techcafe.com][/www.247techcafe.com]In recent years Elon Musk is on everyone's lips. Especially known as co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies), Musk is actually in charge of many other projects: he co-founded and sold PayPal and Zip2 and other companies like Neuralink and The Boring Company. In short, to be 48 years old of things to say the least revolutionary Musk has made several. In particular, the combination of Elon Musk and Tesla will very often occur in the history of the South African entrepreneur, which is worth exploring a little further.

Elon Musk, Biography
Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, on June 28, 1971, to a biologist mother and an electromechanical engineer, as well as a pilot and navigator. is the first of three children: his brother Kimbal was born in 1972 and his sister Tosca in 1974. As a child, he became passionate about reading and computer science, so much so that at only 12 he already knows how to program and make a video game, which he calls Blastar, sold to a specialized magazine for $ 500. These are his first steps as a successful entrepreneur.

In 1989 he moved to Canada, after obtaining citizenship, and enrolled at Queen's University. However, in 1992 he decided to enroll at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in economics and physics at the age of 24. After the two degrees, he enrolled at Stanford University, California, to obtain a doctorate in energy physics, but left immediately to found Zip2 Corporation together with his brother.

The Origins of SpaceX and Paypal
The company Zip2 is sold in 1999 to Compaq and Musk invests the proceeds - around 20 million dollars - in a new company, destined to evolve in the very famous PayPal. This, in fact, arises from the merger of and Confinity. But Elon Musk wants to aim even higher: he sells the company to eBay in 2002 and from the sale, he invests 100 million dollars in SpaceX, 70 million in Tesla and 10 million in Solar City. Elon Musk, in fact, is mainly known for Tesla Motors, the most innovative company in the world in the field of electric cars and autonomous driving, or without a driver. With its high level of autonomy, its elegant design and it's almost sci-fi finishes, Tesla completely revolutionizes the electric vehicle market.

Space is another of the great obsessions of Elon Musk, who with his company SpaceX is dedicated to the development of spacecraft to transport goods to the International Space Station, rockets specially designed to be reused between trips. On May 22, 2012, Musk and SpaceX launch the first rocket into unmanned space: it is the first time in history that a private company sends a spacecraft to the International Space Station. But Musk's entrepreneurial zeal does not end here: after several launches, Musk manages to realize his great personal dream, explore and colonize Mars, the Red Planet.

Elon Musk, Heritage
According to the rankings updated by the famous Forbes magazine, Musk would have an estimated fortune of around 21 billion dollars, which would place him at the twenty-first place in the ranking of the richest people in the United States. The naturalized American entrepreneur now lives in Bel Air, California and has two marriages behind him: his first wife is Justine Wilson, known at the time of Queen's University, with whom Elon Musk is married in 2000. From this relationship six children are born, the first of which dies prematurely. The two separated in 2008 and within two years came the second marriage with the British actress Talulah Riley. Also, in this case, the report ends definitively in 2016, with a divorce after an attempted rapprochement that lasted about two years.

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