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Starting up a business ar a company I quite challenging talkless of taking the company to the limelight. However, this seemingly difficult task has over the years become an art for Elon Musk as he has started and taken " a lot" of companies to the peak of the business world. For this simple reason, allow me to dub him, "THE KING OF START-UPS".
Let's take a look at a few things about him and his start-ups.
Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa to a South African Engineer father, and a Canadian mother who happens to be a model and Nutritionist. Elon is the is the oldest of 3 children. After his parents divorced in 1980, Elon primarily lived with his father who he later referred to as a terrible man.
At age 12 (1983), Elon created a video game and sold it to a computer magazine. This was the beginning of his greatness.
He obtained a Canadian passport through his Canadian mother in 1988 to avoid compulsory military service in South Africa. On getting to Canada few months later, he enrolled in Queens University, Ontario where he met Justin Wilson who he later married and had 5 sons together before divorcing in 2008.
In 1992, Elon transferred to University of Pennysylvania, where he received bachelor's degrees in Physics and Economics.
In 1995, he founded Zip2, a company that provides maps and directories to online newspapers. Compaq bought Zip2 from Elon in 1999 for a whooping $307 million.
After selling Zip2, he founded founded X.com , an online financial service which later became PayPal. In 2002, he sold it to Ebay for $1.5 billion.
In 2002, he founded Space X to make affordable rockets. He also contributed to the funding of Tesla, where After some series of events, he seized control as CEO and product architect in 2007.
Musk joined Twitter in 2009 as @elonmusk , now with more than 85 million followers. He tweeted about taking Tesla private, this news plummeted Tesla's stocks, making them to accept a harsher deal which included Musk's stepping down as chairman for three years while still being CEO.
Early April 2002, Twitter's fillings with the sec disclosed that Musk had bought more than 9% of the company, and was offered to join the company's board, but instead, Musk made a bid of $44 billion at $54.20 a share to buy the whole company. Twitter's board accepted the deal, which made him the sole owner of the company.
TRULY HE IS A LIVING LEGEND IN THE BUSINESS WORLD AND INDEED WORTH LEARNING FROM AND ALSO WORH CELEBRATING.
SOURCES:
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?sh=54d73f477999
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
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