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birth
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. -
1981
Elon Musk taught himself computer programming. -
first game sold at age 12
At age 12 Elon Musk sold his first ever game "Blastar" to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for $500. -
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FIrst big sell
Elon Musk started an internet city guide web software company called Zip2 with his brother Kimbal he later sold Zip2 for $307 million USD. -
SpaceX
He founded SpaceX with $100 million USD of his own project becoming CEO and CTO of the company. -
Musk joins Tesla
Elon Musk joined Tesla's board of directors as Chairman leading the Series A round of investment. -
Contracts With NASA
SpaceX started to get various contracts from NASA to send cargo and astronauts to the ISS. -
Musk becomes CEO of Tesla
Elon Musk became CEO and product architect for Tesla in 2007. -
First SpaceX dock
SpaceX Dragon docked on the ISS becoming the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the ISS -
Colonizing mars
Elon Musk revealed plans of colonizing Mars. -
Boring company
The boring company was founded by Musk on 12/17/2016 -
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Present day
Elon Musk keeps working on Tesla and still sends food and astronauts to the ISS