Elon Musk
Elon Musk's life purpose is to try and speed up humanity's transition to a fully renewable future as well as extend life to Mars.
Here's a time line of Elon Musk's life:
- June 1971 - Born in South Africa
- January 1991 - Creates Blastar video game at age 12. The souce code was published in a magazie and he received $500 for it.
- August 1995 - Received his Bachelor in Pysics and Economics from the Univerty of Pennsylvania.
- September 1995 - Moved to California and applied for physics at Stanford University. However, he left the program after 2 days.
- October 1995 - Was accepted into Queen's University.
- February 1999 - Started Zip2, a web software company, with $28,000 of his father's (Errol Musk) money.
- February 1999 - Compaq aquires Zip2 and Musk receives 7% ($22 million) from the sale.
- March 2000 - Co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with $10 million from the sale of Zip2.
- May 2000 - First marriage (Justin) but separated in 2008 after having 6 sons.
- October 2000 - PayPal(X.com) was aquired by eBay for $1.5 billion. $165 million was given to Musk
- June 2002 - Founded Space Exploration Technologies(SpaceX) with $100 million from the sale of PayPal.
- February 2004 - Lead the Series A round of investment for Tesla and joins the Board of Directors as its Chairman.
- February 2006 - Provides the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity. Co-founds it with 2 cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive.
- March 2010 - President Barrack Obama recognizes the SpaceX falcon 9 rocket at the Florida Lauch site.
- June 2012 - Tesla began delivery of its four-door Model S car.
- March 2013 - Unveiled proposal for a new form of transportation called the "Hyperloop".
- June 2021 - Anonymous sends a message to Elon Musk after tweeting down the crypto market.
- October 2021 - World's richest man -first person to be worth more than $300 billion.
-- Time magazine