TIMELINE ELON MUSK

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ELON REEVE MUSK

1990

2002

1999

Jun 28, 1971

He entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.

Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash in February 1999, and Musk received $22 million for his 7-percent share.

Musk instead decided to start a company that could build affordable rockets. With $100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp., traded as SpaceX, in May 2002.

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. Born to engineer father and model mother,

1995

2002

1983

gets $28,000 from his father to start a business and rent an office in which he has to sleep in for the first 3 months

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.

At age 12, sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500.

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ELON REEVE MUSK

2010

2021

Meets JB Straubel, electric car enthusiast, then he met tesla founders who pitch the idea of an electric car. He invests in tesla suggesting that they should collaborate

Tesla goes public at $17 per share closing the day at a whopping $24

Space-X makes history with the very first all-civilian spaceflight with a four person crew who entered the orbit and then landed in the Atlantic Ocean

2004

2017

He had some of his biggest achievements, which include the first model x being delivered, the new Tesla roadster reveal and the launch of his largest rocket the Falcon Heavy

Hours before Tesla would have gone bankrupt he raises funding, a few months later he unveils the first Tesla Model S