Elon Musk is an innovator (he has won several innovator of the year awards) and business magnate that focuses mostly on solving the problems that face the future of the world and furthering humanity. Elon Musk owns several companies, most significant of which, SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla. All of which work on his " quest for a fantastic future "
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria. He is the son of Maye Musk and Errol Musk. He also has a younger brother and sister, Kimbal and Tosca. At the age of 19, Musk was accepted into Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. After two years in Queen's University, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. In 1995, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University, but decided to leave the program pursue his aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space.
In 1995 Musk and his brother founded Zip2, a company which provided local services with a presence on the internet, with $28,000 of their father’s money. The company was then sold to Compaq for $307 million
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SpaceX is currently working on advancing the current state of rocket technology. Elon Musk believes that the cost and inefficiency of current rocket flights is a vital problem that needs to be solved, with an average launch costing more than $1 billion each. He believes that the key to solving this problem is to make rockets fully and rapidly reusable. "If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of hundred" he says. They have managed to make the first stage of Falcon 9 reusable and are working on making the rocket fully