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Elon was born to an engineer father and a model mother in south america
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He moved to Canada
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Elon started working towards his physics degree
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Elon graduated college and got decrees in physics and economics
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Starts the website Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk. He coded the site at night on the same computer that hosted it in the day time.
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He got his first investment money in zip 2 ($3 mill)
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Elon starts the first online banking site with his own money
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X.com Merges with Confinity forming Pay-Pal
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Elon married his college Girlfriend Justine
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Elon starts looking into doing a small philanthropic mars mission to reinvigorate like public's interest in space. He goes to Russia to look into buying rockets
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He fails to get the rockets but on the plane ride home he realizes he could make rockets cheaper and better, revolutionizing the space industry.
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Elon has his first kid named Nevada Alexander
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Elon starts Space X, a rocket company, with his own money
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Elons son dies from sudden infant death syndrome.
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Elon gets $180 Million (after tax) in sale of pay-pal
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Elon meets JB Staubel, an electric car enthusiast
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Creates TESLA motors to make electric cars
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Elon's first ever rocket takes of and explodes in mid air
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To demo delivery to ISS and make Falcon-9 rocket
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at price of 109,000
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Destroying 4 satellites aboard including NASA's
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Elon wins NASA contract for 12 flights for 1.6 billion. Elon Cries realizing SpaceX barely escaped bankruptcy
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starting at $17 per a share going up to $24 by the end of the day
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to make spaceflight 100 times cheaper
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for $75,000
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He had too much time on his plate to tackle this by himself
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First failure after 19 successful ones. Cause was found and fixed. (Only happened due to the rate at which they were fueling it)
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(A much smaller feet to the educated eye)
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Here is a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B6oiLNyKKI
