Elon Musk

Elon is born June 28, 1971

Jun 28, 1971

He is born into a family with a engineering dad and a modeling mom

Age 10, his parents divorce

1980

Elon lives with his dad

Age 12 Elon makes his first game BLASTAR

1983

BLASTAR sells for $500 dollars

Elon moves to Canada and joins Queens university

1989

Elon moved to Canada to avoid joining the mandatory south African military

Elon starts selling computers

1989

Elon Musk starts selling computers out of his dorm room

Elon gets two degrees

1994

Elon gets undergraduate Wharton economics degree then a bachelor's degree in physics.

Elon quits his college just after two days

1994

Elon quits Sanford university just after two days

Elon starts coding Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk

1995

Elon gets big money

1995

Elon gets 28,000 from his dad to start with

Elon raises a investment money and gets three million dollars

1996

Compaq Computer Corporation bought Zip2

1999

Compaq Computer Corporation bought Zip2 for $611 million

Elon Musk gets malaria and nearly dies

2000

Elon starts SpaceX

2002

Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX.

He starts thinking about electric cars

2002

Elon Helps found Tesla

2003

In 2008 Tesla released its first car, the electric Tesla Roadster.