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He is born in the capital city of Sud-Africa, Pretoria. -
At the age of 10 he developes interest in computing.
He learns himself programming. -
At the age of 12 he sells a video game named Blastar , to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for approx 500$. -
At the age of 17 he moves to Canada to attend Queen's University, avoiding military service in South Africa. -
He left's Queen's university in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Musk and his brother Kimbal start Zip2, a web software company. -
He receives 22 million of his 7 percent of shares from the sale.
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Muks co-founds X.com an online financial service and email payment company with US$10million from the Zip2 -
X.com merges with Confininity with a money-transfer service called Paypal and Muks becames the CEO and company's largest shareholder.
In the same year he lefts his role as CEO of Paypal due to disagreement with other company leadership. -
Muks conceptualizes Mars a project to land a miniature greenhouse in Mars.
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Muks foundes Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, with US$ 100 million of his early fortune. -
He invests in tesla in 2004 and in 2007 he assumed leadership of the company as CEO and products architect
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In a 2011 interview he says he hopes to send humans to Mars within 10-20 years. -
In January 2015, Muks makes a guest appearance playing himself on The Simpson in an episode titled "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" In December 2015 , Muks announces the creation of OpenAl, a research company. -
In september 2016,Muks reveales details of his architecture to explore and colonize Mars -
The model officially launches in early 2019. The car's price $35,000. -
