Elon Musk
Technology Entrepreneur
Timeline
Born in Pretoria, South Africa
Elon Reeve Musk is born to Maye and Errol Musk in Pretoria, South Africa.
personalCo-founds Zip2
Musk drops out of Stanford PhD program after 2 days and co-founds Zip2, a city guide software company for newspapers.
careerSells Zip2 for $307M, founds X.com
Zip2 sells to Compaq. Musk founds X.com, an online payments company.
careerFounds SpaceX
Musk founds Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) with $100M of his own money.
careerInvests in Tesla
Musk leads Tesla's Series A funding round and becomes chairman of the board.
careerFalcon 1 reaches orbit
SpaceX becomes the first private company to put a liquid-fueled rocket into Earth orbit.
careerAcquires Twitter for $44B
Musk completes acquisition of Twitter and renames it X, firing thousands of employees.
controversyWorld's wealthiest person (again)
Musk's net worth exceeds $400B making him the richest person in recorded history.
careerQuotes
"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
