Elon Musk
Biggest question is
Who is ELON MUSK?
According To Forbes:-
(Elon Musk, Nearing $300 Billion Fortune, Is The Richest Person In History. I cover the world's Richest people. Thanks to a blowout earnings report and a big car order by Hertz, Tesla's market cap surpassed $1 trillion on Monday—and CEO Elon Musk has emerged as the 1st most productive person in the history of the world)
Early Life
Musk was born to a Canadian mother and a South African father and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 17 to avoid conscription. He was enrolled at Queen's University and later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, after receiving a bachelor's degree in economics and physics, then moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but decided instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk.
Business career
Every startup that was started by MUSK was not only successful but very successful in his career. ELON converted every start-up into a million and a billion-dollar business.
MUSK co-founded the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. The same year, Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
In 2002, Musk established SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer, and space transportation services business, of which he is CEO and CTO. In 2004, he joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product designer, becoming its CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company that was later acquired by Tesla and became Tesla Energy. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research organization that promotes friendly artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology corporation centered on improving brain-computer interfaces, and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company. Musk has introduced the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain transportation system.
Musk has been the subject of criticism due to unorthodox or unscientific stances and highly publicized controversies. In 2018, he was sued for defamation by a British caver who advised in the Tham Luang cave rescue; a California jury ruled in favor of Musk. In the same year, he was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla.
Top 12 ELON MUSK Quotes
- “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
- “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”
- “There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.”
- “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
- “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”
- “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
- “Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”
- “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”
- “We’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.”
- “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
- “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. People must look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”
- “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”
Books by ELON MUSK
- 2018. Making life multi-planetary. New Space, 6(1), 2-11.
- 2017. Making humans a multi-planetary species. New Space, 5(2), 46-61.
- 2006. The secret Tesla Motors master plan (just between you and me). blog), August, 2.
- 2001. U.S. Patent No. 6,185,194. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- 1999. U.S. Patent No. 5,944,769. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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