While still in his early forties, Elon Musk had established himself as one of the world's best known entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. His rise to fame began in 1999 when he founded X.com, an online payment company that eventually became PayPal, and was later sold to eBay for $1 5..billion in stock. In a few years, Musk invested this large amount of money into three start-up companies. Musk wanted to start a low-cost Mars mission that would capture the imagination of thousands of people about
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
Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971. He became famous for starting Tesla Motors and SpaceX but he first made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal. Musk provided a large amount of inspiration for the Hollywood character Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man). In fact, parts of Iron Man 2 were actually filmed inside and outside of SpaceX. Musk even has a cameo in the film! Like Steve Jobs and other famous entrepreneurs, Musk's official annual salary for Tesla Motors is just $1. At age 12, Musk taught
they have reached their limit. Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, and grew up in South Africa. Musk created the first electric car company that used lithium-ion batteries to run efficiently and not pollute the air using gasoline. In addition to inventing the Tesla vehicles, they have a special feature that innovated the car industry, regenerative braking. This meant all Teslas could conserve energy by normally driving and not have to constantly charge. The way Musk impacted society as a whole is
is known to many as Elon Musk. He comes up with ideas that is never thought of and uses it to shape our future. He does this by beginning with creating Paypal, then becoming CEO of Tesla Motors and showing the world an alternative way to gasoline and petroleum for cars, creating the company called SpaceX in order to forward the research of space technology and space itself, and many more. Even though his accomplishments are amazing, his traits that he carries are admirable. Elon Musk’s ambition, optimistic
The Leader I Admire and Revere: Elon Musk BN171040 BUS 500 Organizational Leadership Professor: Shirley Chuo Westcliff University 17/09/2017 Abstract Elon Musk is a global hero as an innovator and tech entrepreneur, he is primarily know for his involvement with Tesla and SpaceX both of which are companies striving to make the world a better place, which can also be seen as his primary vision through what he has worked for and what he is striving to achieve. His ability to envision are backed
This February something amazing happened in the area of space travel. A private company called SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk launched the Falcon Heavy rocket. Elon Musk made his fortune by creating and then selling such companies as Zip2 and PayPal. He is currently sinking all of his money and passions into SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity in his attempt to change the world and shape humanity in a positive way. He has a stated goal of reducing global warming, increasing sustainable energy production and
A free enterprise system has helped many people, but the system has helped Elon Musk throughout his life to make amazing products like the Tesla and he has founded SpaceX. Elon musk has helped found some amazing companies in his lifetime and is now considered one of the richest people in the world all thanks to the free enterprise system. If Elon Musk did not have the free enterprise system then none of his dreams would have come true because of all of the economic and financial decisions that he
Elon Musk is known as a “serial entrepreneur” (encyclopedia). He has made many accomplishments in his 46 years of living. Creating and funding multiple companies, winning many awards, and becoming a multi millionaire by the age of 27 (Vance). He couldn’t have accomplished this much without his hunger for a better future. Growing up from a shy boy from South Africa to becoming a billionaire Elon Musk had kept his influences to his core values in all his companies. Elon Musk was in born Pretoria
The engineer whom I find inspiring is Elon Musk. Elon Musk helped to found SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and has conceptualized the Hyperloop. I admire his desire to further the world in alternative energy via Tesla Motors and further aerospace endeavors via SpaceX. I also admire his conceptualization of the alternative energy powered, public Hyperloop. Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971. His mother was a model and his father an engineer. He taught himself computer programming at age 10, and
Elon Musk: The architect of tomorrow Elon Musk is with his net worth of $20.8 billion, ranked as one of the wealthiest persons in Forbes 400 (“Wikipedia”). He is a workaholic, has an insane work ethic, doesn’t go with the flow and he knows what he wants. He is always completely motivated on everything he is doing and he always has his skin in the game (“CNBC... ”). On time he said: “If other people are putting 40 hours in a week, and you are putting in 100, you will achieve in four months, what it
Elon Musk is visionary billionaire entrepreneur who currently runs two companies’ that combined have 35,000 employees. His current companies include Tesla, which is an automaker that creates energy efficient vehicles, and his other company Space X is an aerospace startup that is making huge waves in the industry. His goals are to create a carbon emissions free earth and to ultimately colonize Mars. He has taken major risks and works more then most would be capable of or desire too. The extreme lengths
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
Elon Musk Owns the Future As Elon Musk’s first wife put it “ He does what he wants, and he is relentless about it. It’s Elon’s world, and the rest of us live in it.” (Vance 22). Soon this quote will come to fruition and the world will be Elon Musk’s. In the same fashion that Apple’s Steve Jobs took over the world and put his products into the hands of almost every household in the world, Musk will soon have that same effect on the world. Musk is the Steve Jobs of my generation. However Musk's impact
developing new, energy efficient cars, Elon Musk has impacted almost all areas of science to make a simpler life. He's served as an innovator, inventor, and entrepreneur. In his childhood, his thirst for knowledge couldn't be quenched. He read every book and never ran out of questions to ask about the way machines worked. College life helped Elon Musk learn the skills he would need for the outside world. As an entrepreneur and the CEO of three major companies, Musk has effected almost every area of
A man of change, drive, and ambition is hard to come by. Elon Musk fits the description of all three of the previous adjectives. Elon Musk changed the world by creating some of the most innovative companies in the world while also building a business empire on the side. He saw the issue in global warming and set out to fix the issue he saw. In doing so, he created a company in the Fortune 500 and creating one of the best cars ever created. He founded Tesla. He changed navigation through Zip2, he
Electric Pioneer: Elon Musk The Life of an Environmental Hero Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell have conferred over the course of a six episode miniseries titled, The Power of Myth, in 1988. These discussions have led to age defying ideas on the aspect of heroes and what they mean in today’s society. Campbell explains the hero path as usually beginning with someone who doesn't feel they belong or thinks of accomplishing something that will better their lives and mankind in general. This path often
ABOUT ELON MUSK Elon Musk is South African born , American business magnate, entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and a cofounder of Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla Motors. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion. Elon Musk was the second
best to help others because it is a very good action to do which is true but very difficult to pursue, but to Elon Musk this is surely a task he can accomplish. Elon Musk went from living in a poor environment to owning a multi-billion dollar company, Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, gives us an in-depth look into the tasks Elon Musk had to undergo with throughout his life and how he was able to become the successful entrepreneur that he is at
Literature Review 1) Biography.com Editors, Elon Musk Biography Elon Musk was Born and raised in South Africa in 1971.At the age of 10 he taught himself how to program. When he was 12 he made his first sale of a game he made called Blastar. At age 17, in 1989, he moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University, but he left in 1992 to study a double degree of business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor’s