Spaceflight, self-driving cars, the real Tony Stark, and tweets, after which cryptocurrency prices fly like plastic bags in the wind. All this is connected with the controversial billionaire Elon Musek, who is celebrating his fiftieth birthday today. Take a look at a few milestones of life so far for the third richest person in the world.
It is a boy!
June 28, 1971
Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa to a Canadian model and a South African engineer. But don’t expect happy childhood memories. The billionaire often describes him in just one word – terrible.
Especially because of his father, who he said was a horrible man who did all the terrible things that come to mind and with whom he is not in contact. In addition, Muska was also bullied at school, once he even ended up in hospital. Elon has two of her own and two half-siblings.
Whoever plays does not get angry
1984
Elon’s technologies have been fun since they were little. He learned to program at the age of twelve and created his first game called Blastar. But the game code was soon sold to PC and Office Technology magazine and he made five hundred dollars. Apparently he already enjoyed the universe at that time, because in a game that you can still enjoy, by the way play here, you will take the position of a space pilot.
Next stop Canada
1989
Musk left home at the age of seventeen and went to study at a university in Canada. Partly to avoid serving in the South African army during the apartheid era.
Two days at Stanford is enough
1995
In the following years, Musk changed schools several times before earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and physics from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1995, he was accepted into a doctoral program at the prestigious Stanford University, where he was to study materials. However, he dropped out of studies after only two days and decided that he would rather jump on the internet wave and start his first startup.
The first company
November 6, 1995
Elon and his younger brother founded his first company, Zip2, which offered media companies software for Internet publishing in 1995. Its sales earned him $ 22 million four years later.
Since then, Musk has been involved in the creation of many other companies, such as The Boring Company, SpaceX, Neuralink, OpenAI or X.com. The latter later merged with the American software company Confinity to form PayPal, which in 2002 bought Ebay for $ 1.5 billion.
Up to Mars
May 6, 2002
Of all Musk’s projects, the planned creation of a colony on Mars is probably the most discussed. He founded SpaceX to arrange it as a “mere” millionaire in the spring of 2002. The company had a number of successes, including the first commercial liquid-fuel rocket to orbit or the first commercial delivery of supplies to the International Space Station.
According to the original plans, the colonization of the red planet by the spaceship Starship was to take place in 2024, but last year Musk said that the flight in 2024 would be unmanned, which will not be added until two years later. He is not going to it himself, but he has hundreds of volunteers.
$ 6.5 million for Tesla
Members 2004
Although Musek is often referred to as the co-founder of Tesla, this is not entirely true. It was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and turned to Muska a year later when they needed capital. Musk brought $ 6.5 million to the company and became a board member, product designer and CEO.
Musk only gained the opportunity to identify himself as a co-founder on the basis of a court settlement in 2009. In any case, it was a good investment, as the share in the carmaker is about three quarters of its assets.
One hundred most influential
29. 4. 2010
The Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world is a prestigious affair, and Musk is no newcomer to it. For the first time, billionaires received this honor in 2010, and then again in the rankings in 2013 and 2018.
Musk a billionaire
2012
Musk has been part of the club of dollar billionaires since 2012, when he was added to the list of the richest people in the world by the American Forbes, after the editors set the value of his property at two billion dollars. At the moment, it is firmly in third place with assets worth $ 168.6 billion.
Its wealth is mainly due to about a fifth share in the carmaker Tesla and more than half of the share in SpaceX.
Musk, Grimes a X Æ A-12
May 7, 2018
While some billionaires guard their privacy anxiously, Elon Musk has the opposite. He appeared, for example, in the film Iron Man 2, to which he is often likened to the protagonist, in the series The Big Bang Theory or this spring in the comedy show Saturday Night Live. And he’s obviously enjoying the attention.
He confirmed his celebrity status in May 2018, when he participated in the prestigious gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (known as the MET Gala). He appeared for the first time with his new partner, the singer Grimes, at the biggest fashion event of the year, which requires an invitation and where the ticket costs tens of thousands of dollars.
Two years later, his seventh child, son X-A-12, was born with her. Don’t know how to read the name? It doesn’t matter, the parents themselves are not entirely clear about this, because everyone tells their son differently.
The richest of the richest
January 8, 2021
Only one can have the title of the richest man on the planet. Musk has been at the top of the Forbes rankings for several years, but for the first time in January this year he briefly experienced what it was like to be number one.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has held this position for a long time, but at the beginning of January he was removed from the top of the list by Musk. He owed this to Tesla’s growing stock, which raised his assets to $ 189.7 billion, while the other Bezos had only $ 185 billion. The billionaires then competed for the first place for a while, but in the end Bezos won after Bernard Arnault overtook him for a while.
I’m on the spectrum
May 8, 2021
In early May, Elon Musk said on Saturday Night Live that he had Asperger’s Syndrome. In his speech among the manifestations of Asperger’s syndrome that he observes with him, Elon Musk mentioned, for example, eye contact, eccentric behavior, insufficient intonation, his own sense of humor or statements that others find strange or even offensive.
“To everyone I’ve ever insulted, I mean I’ve come up with a new version of electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a space rocket. Did you think I would be a normal, cool guy? ”He joked at his expense.
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