Elon Musk
Elon Musk and His Achievements
Born to a South African father and Canadian mother, Elon Musk opens his eyes first time in the city of South Africa called Pretoria. He studied there until he is 17 years old. At the age of 17th, he moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University. In 1995 he went to California to begin a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University, but he decided to choose a business career instead of enrolling in the above course.
When Elon Musk was 25 years old, he and his younger brother Kimbal founded a company called Zip2. It was a software similar to the google map. They sold this company only 4 years later to Compaq computer in 1999 for $307 million.
The second company of Elon Musk after Zip2 was an Online Banking Company X.com. Although this company didn’t much better due to the non-secureness of internet for banking like a business where the money is directly involved, it merged with Confinity in 2000 and formed a new entity called PayPal nowadays.
Mr. Musk decided to go to Mars and for this, he started working to build a rocket. We all know the result of his this dream in the form of SpaceX, yes he is the founder of SpaceX as well. It is the first private company that successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. SpaceX is currently working with NASA to take humans to the moon and a strong desire to make people settle there on the Moon.
He joined Telsa and become it‘s CEO in 2004 and helped to make the second-largest solar provider system in the US. To make solar energy competitive with traditional forms of electricity SolarCity is working with Telsa.
In 2015 a nonprofit research company OpenAI was co-founded by this gentleman. The purpose of OpenAI was to promote friendly artificial intelligence.
After only one year Elon Musk also found another company called Neuralink in 2016. The purpose of this was the integration between the human brain and neuro-technology. The company works to invent devices to treat serious brain disease. Neuralink also tries to control wireless devices with the power of human thoughts and capture brain activity.