10 Interesting facts about Elon Musk's Life
1. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971.
2. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971.
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Musk moved to the United States in 1995 to attend the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
4. He started his first company, Zip2, in 1995, which provided online business directories and maps to newspapers.
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In 1999, Compaq acquired Zip2 for nearly $300 million, giving Musk his first taste of success as an entrepreneur.
6. Musk co-founded PayPal, an online payment system, in 1999, which was later acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.
7. In 2004, Musk founded SpaceX with the goal of reducing the cost of space exploration and making it possible for humans to live on other planets.
8. In 2008, SpaceX became the first privately-funded company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.
9. In 2004, Musk also co-founded Tesla, a company that designs and manufactures electric vehicles and clean energy products.
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Musk is also the founder of Neuralink, a company developing brain-computer interface technology.
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