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Elon Musk: Short Biography

It is not easy to summarise Elon Musk’s motivational story. But let us just try reading about his personal and professional journey.

Family

Elon Reeve Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in South-Africa. His father Errol Musk was an electromechanical engineer, a pilot and sailor earlier. His mother Maye Musk is a Canadian-South African model and dietitian.

Elon Musk is the youngest of the children of Errol and Maye. His brother Kimbal Musk is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and restaurateur. He owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a family of community restaurant concepts located in Colorado, Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, and Indianapolis.

His sister Tosca Musk is a filmmaker who has directed feature films, television programs and web content. Her notable works include Driven series of books by K. Bromberg, Hollywood Dirt, A kind of Magic, and Tiki Bar TV series.

Married life

Elon married Justine Wilson, a classmate in the university in 2000 and divorced in 2008. After which he started a relationship with the English actress Talulah Riley and married her in 2010. The marriage lasted for only two years. In 2013 Elon and Talulah reconciled and got married again. Eventually, things took a wrong road again and they divorced again in 2016.

Elon Musk’s kids

Musk’s first son with wife Justine ‘Nevada Alexander Musk’ was born in 2002 and passed away aged 10 weeks.

The couple then welcomed twin sons Griffin Musk and Xavier Musk, born in 2004 by IVF procedure.

Musk and Justine welcomed triplet sons Kai Musk, Saxon Musk and Damian Musk, in 2006, also via IVF.

In May 2020, Musk and girlfriend singer Grimes, welcomed a baby boy and named him X Æ A-12 Musk.
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Elon Musk’s interest in Technology

Elon had an interest in technology since childhood. At such a mere age of 10, when most of the children are entirely into TV and games, Elon took a totally different route and started developing computer languages. By the age of 12 in 1984, he developed his first video game called Blastar whose code was published in a magazine for which he received $500, a handsome amount for that time.

Elon Musk – Education and Career

In 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University and later in 1992, moved to the US to attend the University of Pennsylvania for his undergraduate degree in economics and a second bachelor’s degree in physics.

Zip2

After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Musk joined Standford to study PhD in energy physics and dropped attending just after two days of joining to start Zip2, a software company with his brother in 1995 for which they also received initial funding from a few angel investors. Musk wanted to be the CEO company but the members of the company didn’t permit him to be, thus he sold his company to COMPAQ $10 million.

X.com

In 1999, Musk utilised his earnings from Zip2 and founded X.com along with financial services and email companies. A year later, the company got merged with Confinity which had a money transfer facility called PayPal.

SpaceX

In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, as the CEO & CTO. The company develops and manufactures space launch vehicles with a focus on advancing the state of rocket technology. In September 2008, SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket became the first privately funded liquid-fueled vehicle to put a satellite into Earth orbit.

Tesla

Tesla Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors), an electric vehicle manufacturer that was incorporated in 2003 by American engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, and financed the company until February 2004 when Elon led the Series A funding round for the company and got elected as the chairman of the board of directors, and also as the CEO and the product Architect of the company. Elon Musk launched Tesla in the UAE in 2017.

Formulation of SolarCity

Musk came up with the ideation of SolarCity which was later founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive in 2006. The company became the second largest provider of solar power systems in the US in 2013. In 2016, SolarCity was acquired as a fully-owned subsidiary of Tesla.
Other companies

Apart from all his primary business, Elon Musk also envisioned his foray in high-speed transportation through Hyperloop in 2013; in artificial intelligence by creating OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence research company. He aims to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence through his neurotechnology startup Neuralink; and also founded a tunnel construction company called The Boring Company in 2017.