Elon Musk is a South African born
American-Canadian entrepreneur who is the founder of SpaceX, PayPal and Zip2
and also the chairman of Tesla Motors, SolarCity and SpaceX. Born on 29th
June 1971, Musk showed talent in computers at a very young age and in fact
created a video game at the age of 12 and sold it to a computer magazine. He
studied in Queen, University and University of Pennsylvania and received bachelor’s
degree in Physics and Economics. In 1995 he enrolled to the Stanford University
but dropped out in two days as he felt internet, rather than physics, could
bring change to the society. The very same year he started Zip2, a company
which provided maps and business directories to online newspaper companies.
Then he found X.com which later became PayPal, which specialized in online
money transfer. After that he found SpaceX which has many achievements in its
name and also is became head of Tesla Motors, SolarCity and SpaceX. He also is
the founder of Hyperloop project.
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