Elon Musk is considered one of the greatest figures in the modern business world. He was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa. He learned to code computer programs on his own, and at the age of 12 he was able to create a video game called Blastar and sell it to a magazine company for $ 500. As a child, Elon Musk decided that he would create three businesses that would best benefit humanity in the future. The three businesses are air travel, communication networks around the world and clean sources of energy, and so far Elon Musk has made his dream come true by creating three businesses. Achieved and made him billions of dollars. 

Family life

Elon has a mother named Maye Musk who is a Canadian model and a father named Errol Musk who is a South African civil engineer. Elon spent most of his childhood in South Africa with his younger brother and sister, KImbal and Tosca, but when he was 10, his parents divorced. 

Elon married twice, first married in 2000 to Justine Wilson, and had six sons and daughters with his first wife, but the eldest died six weeks at birth. Elon later divorced Justine and then married his second wife, actress Talulah Riley, in 2010 and divorced in 2016. In 2016, Elon contacted another actress, Amber Heard, but broke up in early 2018. In the same year 2018, Elon also contacted a singer named Grimes and is currently living together and gave birth to a son in May 2020, and Elon named his son X Æ A -12 But because US authorities did not accept the registration of mixed birth names, Elon changed it to X Æ A-Xii.

In 1999, Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal, Peter Theil, and other techies co-founded an online payment website called X.com, later renamed PayPal. . At the end of 2002, Elon owned an 11% stake in PayPal, in which eBay acquired PayPal for $ 1.5 billion. After selling PayPal, the team that co-founded PayPal with Elon went on to form companies such as LinkedIn, Yelp, YouTube, Reddit, 500 Startups and Slide, most of them from Stanford University.

Elon's third company was SpaceX, full name Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, launched in 2002. With the ambition to build spacecraft to transport goods and people to extraterrestrials, but sadly SpaceX failed three test launches and almost went bankrupt due to running out of cash at a time when the global economy was in crisis in 2008. The launch of SpaceX was a tragedy for Elon Musk, and since the launch and repeated failures, many market analysts on TV have laughed and said that Elon will fail. To make matters worse, some of NASA's oldest astronauts, whom Elon described as heroes and symbols, tried to discourage Elon from doing "stupid and impossible" things. Instead. A TV presenter asked Elon, "How do you feel?" When the people you considered were heroes, but they turned out to be crazy? ” "It hurts," Elon replied with a start. Things improved when Elon raised all of his $ 40 million and raised additional funds to test-fire SpaceX's fourth rocket, and continued to do so successfully. Currently.

SpaceX also has a subsidiary, Starlink, an Internet satellite launch service provider that was launched in 2018 under a US government mission to launch a series of satellites into orbit. The Earth's low-level aircraft launched 120 units in 2019. 

Elon Musk's fourth company is Tesla Electric, which was founded in 2003. In fact, Elon was not the first founder of Tesla, but two men, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Elon later led a fundraising campaign to invest in Tesla, and was named chairman of Tesla in 2004 and worked tirelessly to bring Tesla from bankruptcy to manufacturing success. The first electric car to hit the market in 2008 was the Roadster. He graduated in physics, helping to build both electric cars and spacecraft for SpaceX. Under a partnership with German carmaker Daimler and Japanese carmaker Toyota, Tesla Motors also went public in 2010, raising $ 226 million. The following year Tesla

In 2006, Elon assisted his cousins ​​Lyndon and Peter Rive in founding SolarCity Corp., which also has a majority stake in the company, to become the largest renewable energy supplier in the United States. 2013. In 2016, Tesla Motors Inc. acquired SolarCity for $ 2.6 billion and has been a Tesla subsidiary ever since.

Elon also owns a number of lesser-known companies, including The Boring Company, Hyperloop, OpenAI and Neuralink.

Elon is currently the 10th richest person in the world with a net worth of more than $ 68 billion (according to the Bloomberg Index).