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Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His father was an engineer.
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Nevada Alexandar, his first son was born.
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At the age of 10, he created and wrote a video game called Blastar which is a 3D shooting game in outer space. He then sold it for around $500.
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After graduating from Pretoria Boys High School with distinctions in science and computer studies in 1988, in 1989-1991 he went to college at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Then later transfered to the University of Pennsylvania; and got a BS in Economics (Wharton) and a BA with a major in physics!
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After moving to Silicon Valley, he defered a graduate program in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University.
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He sold Zip2 to Compaq, the personal computer company, for $307 million, and then $22 million went to Musk. He then formed X.com, which in 2000 morphs into PayPal
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He is an American citizen and also a Canadian citizen.
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This is the third company he founded, building safe spacecraft for travel. The possibility of space travel by founding the Musk Foundation, that is made special to the space exploration and the discovery of renewable and clean energy sources.
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eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion in stock. $165 million goes to Musk
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His son suddenly died from sudden infant death syndrome 10 weeks after being born.
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Gets $250 million from Paypal sale and begins thinking about electric cars.
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He first invested in Tesla Motors in 2004. This is a program dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars.
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SpaceX won a $1.6 billion contract to bring cargo to the International Space Station.
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He was the CEO of Tesla Motors.
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He then became pushed from CEO to CTO by his investors.
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SpaceX becomes the first commercial vehicle that delivered a load of supplies to the International Space Station!
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Tesla begins deliveries of the all-electric Model S!
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In August 2013, he released sketches and concepts of the Hyperloop.