Have you ever dreamed of driving a car through space around the sun? Well, multi-billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk did with his recent test flight of the Falcon Heavy that sent his cherry red 2008 Tesla into orbit headed to the sun. This is an amazing feat, for someone who nearly went bankrupt too many times, even for an entrepreneur. Elon Musk is a 46-year-old businessman who is proudly CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, OpenAI, The Boring Company, and the former CEO of Zip2 and PayPal. His risky lifestyle has gone from landing rockets back to earth while using his own money for development, to making underground tunnels for ferrying cars and pedestrians at high speeds just because he was bored in traffic! He’s had his ups and downs throughout his life as a modern genius, and …show more content…
He was a brother to his sister Tosca and his brother Kimbal. His father Errol was a pilot, sailor, and an electromechanical engineer, and his mother Maye was a dietician and a model. Musk excelled in his school, being the smartest at most academical subjects. When he was 9 years old, his parents split up, and the kids were given the choice to live with their father or mother, Kimbal and Tosca both chose Maye, but Musk decided to live with his father, which he would later regret. After the divorce, Musk and Errol stayed in Pretoria. After primary school, Musk moved to Pretoria Boys High School, where the rough atmosphere was a huge disadvantage for him, who at the time was a small skinny kid. He was constantly bullied and beat up, and on one occasion, he was hospitalised after being thrown down a flight of stairs and beat until he passed out. This incident still causes him slight breathing problems to this day. His only relief in his childhood was the VIC-20-Commodore programming computer he begged his father to get when he was 10 years old. He also got a book to learn BASIC computer coding language, in which he completed the 6-month course in two days during a