2. Who is Elon Musk?
He is an technology entrepreneur, investor,
and engineer
He is co-founder of Tesla Motors, Space X, The Boring
Company, PayPal, Solar City, Hyper Loop Inc.
Ranked 25st on the Forbes list of The World's Most
Powerful People in 2018.
Net worth of $21.5 billion and is listed by Forbes as
the 54th-richest person in the world in 2018.Source: www.wikipedia.com
3. Early Life
Born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971
From childhood, fascinated by computers and taught
himself computer programming.
Received Degree in Economics from University of
Pennsylvania
Dropout from Stanford University in 1995 to start
entrepreneurial career.
4. When something is
important enough,
you do it even if the
odds are not in your
favour
Quotes
Life is too short
for long-term
grudges.
4
Source: www.brainyquote.com
5. 198
4
Founded Zip2, a
web software
company at the
age of 24
Founded X.com,
later on merged it
with PayPal and
sold his share for
US $ 165 million.
(Rs. 825 crore) in
2002.
Founded Blastar,
a computer
game at the age
of 12 and sold it
for US $ 500.
1995 1999
Career
6. Out of his early fortune, he invested US $ 100 million in
Space X
Space X aim is to reach Mars and provide equipment to
enable humans to live there at affordable cost.
Even After 3 failure rocket launches , Musk stakes all his
money for the 4th attempt to launch rocket.
On 28th Sep 2008, Falcon 1 became the first privately
developed liquid-fuel launch vehicle to go into orbit around
the Earth.
2001
7. Tesla is a company that specialises in electric cars
and through its Solar City subsidiary, solar panel
manufacturing.
Tesla is named after famous scientist and inventor of alternate
current power transmission Nikola Tesla.
Musk named as chairman in 2004 and then CEO after the
financial crisis of 2008
On June 29,2010 Tesla becomes the first car company to go
public in the United States since Ford Motor Co in 1956.
2004
8. Other Notable Companies
Gigafactory
HyperLoop
OpenAI
Neuralink
The Boring Company
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9. THANK YOU
Prepared by: Rishabh Jain
Special Thanks :
“The Man of 21st Century” for changing our Lives