Elon Musk is known to be "A Man With Many Missions".
Between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries and the billions he's made along tge way,
Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark- which is why he served as an inspiration for Marvel's 2008 " Iron Man " film.
Starting of his career:
▪In 1983, at the age of 12, Musk sold a simple game called "Blaster" to a computer magazine for $500.
▪In 1995 Musk and his brother Kimbal, started Zip2
, a web software company.
▪In march 1999, musk co-founded X.COM, an online financial services e-mail payment company.
Which merged with confinity, and he was named the CEO of newly minted PayPal - but it wouldn't last long.
COMPANIES
(1) SpaceX
Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in with the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel. By, SpaceX was well established, and NASA awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the International Space Station- with plans for astronaut transport in the future- in a move to replace NASA’s own space shuttle missions. SpaceX and NASA works together in many space programmes.
(2) Tesla Motors
Musk took an active product role at Tesla helping
Develop it's first car, The Roadster. He's now its CEO.
▪As if that wasn't enough musk came up with the idea of SolarCity, a solor energy company.
Biggest Achievement of Musk
▪By the end of 2015, SpaceX had made 24 launches on assignments like resupplying the International Space Station, setting lots of record along the way.
▪The Falcon Heavy, The successor to the falcon 9 and most powerful rocket SpaceX has built.
▪In 2019 musk, debuted a new Tesla vehicle the CyberTruck, very highly anticipated - pickup Truck.
Elon musk works for NASA, not as an employee but as a contractor. NASA contracts with Musk’s Spacex for launch services, as well as design and manufacture of devices such as the Dragon transport capsules for the International Space Station.
Musk also founded more companies like The Boring Company, Neuralink, OpenAI, Starlink, Hyperloop etc.
Musk was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. As of September 2,
2020, his net worth was estimated by Forbes to be
US$93.3 Billion, making him the 5th richest person in the world. Musk’s wealth has surpassed Larry page, Larry Elison and sergey bin. is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.
He is called as " The SpaceMan" and " Real Life IronMan "
Today he is the inspiration of millions.
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