Elon Reeve Musk was born in South Africa (Pretoria) on June 28, 1971. Superintelligent as a child, he was different from the others and was severely bullied. Now, Elon Musk is a brilliant visionary. He invents and realizes things that are thought to be technologically impossible and does this with unprecedented enthusiasm and perseverance. He is intelligent, works 120 hours a week. But most of all, if Elon Musk wants something, it happens.
Musk is 12 years old and is programming with his brother on one of the first primitive PCs (5KB memory!) , a “Blastar” video game. They sell the source code for $500.
The Musk brothers launch “Zip2”, an online yellow pages. 4 years later, they sell Zip2 to Compaq for 307 million dollars.
Elon Musk creates the online bank X.com. In 2000, he merged with a company (Confinity Inc.) that developed an e-commerce payment system (PayPal). He becomes CEO and continues to expand Paypal and is the largest shareholder. In 2002, PauPal was sold to eBay for 1.5 billion dollars. Musk himself is cashing 180 million dollars.
Musk is launching SpaceX, a space company with the goal of allowing humanity to swarm to multiple planets, starting with colonizing Mars. By 2050, he wants 1 million people on Mars.
Musk is one of the founders of Tesla. Now he is CEO and the great inspirer. He leads product design, engineering, as well as the production process.
The hyperloop is a transport system based on the idea of tube mail, where tubes are blown through under pressure. However, the hyperloop, or the super-fast vacuum train, works with an almost vacuum tube, in which capsules should reach speeds of over 1000 km/h using a magnetic hover system. The hyperloop system is still in the experimental phase and is currently being further developed in collaboration with other developers and universities.
In 2006, two of Elon Musk's nephews founded Solar City at his suggestion. The company designed and installed solar systems. In 2016, the company was acquired by Tesla. It produces solar panels and batteries to store the generated electricity.
Musk is thoroughly fed up with the heavy traffic in Los Angeles. He sets up 'The boring Company' from the ground, a road infrastructure and tunnel company. Musk wants to develop a super-fast underground car transport system (hyperloop) based on the “Magnetic Levitation” technique.
Together with a few others, Musk is setting up Neuralink Corporation. Neuralink is a company that develops Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs). The brain and computer are linked and exchange information. Neuralink is currently focusing on solutions for certain medical problems (including epilepsy). The aim is also to make everyone super intelligent via the BMI.
