His Early Life and achievement Elon Musk was born in South Africa on 1971. He has grown up in South Africa with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca. At the age of 10, Musk was really interested in computers. His parents decided to divorce at his early age. For two years he has been practicing programming and at the age of 12 he created his own software game called Blastar. Before he turns 18, he decided to move to Canada to attend the university because he was trying to escape the African military but a few years later he moved to Pennsylvania university to study business and physics and he have achieved a degree in economics and bachelors degree in physics. Later on, he pursued a PhD in energy physics. Elon became a U.S. citizen in 2002and he married Justine Wilson in 2000. In 2002, their first son died at 10 weeks old from sudden infant death syndrome but later on they had five more kids. Elon got divorced and he met actress Talulah Riley and they decided to get married in 2010. However, two years later they were separated …show more content…
Soon Zip2 started giving content for the new websites of The New York Times and Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Elon decided to sell his company to Compaq Computer Corporation for $307 million. Elon Musk became one of the young multimillionaire in his late 20s by selling his first company that he have created, Zip2. Exactly after he sold out Zip2, he founded another company called X.com, an online financial service/payment company which led to the creation of PayPal as it is known by today. However in 2002, he sold out PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in stock. Elon always had the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel and by the end of 2008, he founded his third company, Space Exploration Technology Corporation “SpaceX” and he established it so well that NASA awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the international space