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Elon Musk Elon Musk
Birth name: Elon Reeve Musk
Occupation: entrepreneur, inventor, engineer, investor
Date of birth: June 28, 1971 (1971-06-28) (44 years old)
Place of birth: Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship: SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA
USA USA
Canada Canada
Spouse: Justine Musk (2000-2008)
Talula Riley (2010-2014)
Autograph:
Website: twitter.com/elonmusk
Miscellaneous: co founder of PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors
Elon Musk on Wikimedia Commons
Elon Reeve Musk[* 1] (English: Elon Reeve Musk /iiːlɒn ˈmsksk/; b.
June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa) - Canadian American engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and investor; billionaire.
Founder of SpaceX and X.com (the latter was merged with Confinity, renamed PayPal and sold in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion, and in 2015 was valued at $44 billion).
Founder, owner, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; Chief Product Architect, CEO[1] and head of the Board of Directors of Tesla Motors.
He is a member of the board of directors of SolarCity, a company founded by his cousins.
In the rating of Forbes magazine in 2015, his fortune is estimated at $12 billion[2].
Content
1 Early years 2 Career 2.1 X.com and PayPal 2.2 SpaceX 2.3 Tesla Motors
3 Philanthropy 4 Awards 5 Personal Life 6 Cinema 7 Property 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 Literature
Early years[edit / edit wiki text]
Musk was born and raised in Pretoria (South Africa).
His mother was a famous nutritionist, his father had his own engineering business.
His parents divorced and the boy was left with his father, who was distinguished by a bad character[* 2].
At school, Ilon was severely treated by his peers; after one of the beatings, he had to repair a broken nose[3].
At the age of ten, Elon received his first Commodore VIC 20 computer as a gift and learned to program on it.
At the age of twelve, he sold his first program for $ 500 — a video game in the style of Space Invaders called Blast Star, in which the player fired at the ranks of aliens with a laser cannon[4].
Musk invested in shares of a pharmaceutical company, which he followed through newspapers.
Despite the protests of his parents, he leaves for Canada with the proceeds from the sale of several thousand dollars from the sale of shares[4].
Before going to university, he lived with relatives in Kingston, Ontario.
Eventually, he moved to Stanford, but did not finish the course[3].
Career[edit / edit wiki text]
In 1995, Musk and his brother founded the company Zip2, which specialized in software for news companies.
In 1999, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $ 308 million[5].
Musk received 7 % of the sale amount ($22 million) [6].
X.com and PayPal[edit / edit wiki text]
Main Article: PayPal
In March 1999, Musk became one of the founders of X.com.
In 2000 X.com it merged with Confinity, one of the branches of which was called PayPal.
Both systems (X.com and PayPal) were engaged in providing personal electronic money transfers via e mail, and the purpose of the transaction was to merge both payment systems, but in fact this did not happen.
Musk strongly advocated for the brand X.com instead of PayPal, which caused internal corporate disagreements, which eventually ended with the resignation of Musk by the decision of the Board of Directors.
However, Ilon's strategic decision to merge the two companies, along with the active promotion of an electronic payment system at Online auctions (primarily eBay), led in 2001 to the rapid growth of the business, which was finally renamed PayPal.
Such impressive results allowed the company to place shares on the stock exchange in February 2002 (and at the same time become the first of the dotcom companies to go on the stock exchange after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001).
In October 2002, PayPal was bought by eBay for $ 1.5 billion.
At the time of the sale, Musk owned 11.7% of the company's shares[7], which allowed him to gain $ 165 million[8].
SpaceX[edit / edit wiki text]
Musk in 2013 in Dublin
Main article: SpaceX
In June 2002, Musk founded his third company, SpaceX.
It is a private developer of a series of launch vehicles and a commercial operator of space systems.
Musk is currently its CEO and chief engineer.
To date, the company has developed two types of potentially reusable launch vehicles: the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9, as well as the reusable Dragon spacecraft.[source not specified 330 days]
In December 2008, NASA signed a US $ 1.6 billion contract with the company for 12 launches of the Falcon 9 carrier and the Dragon spacecraft to the ISS, as a replacement for the Space Shuttle ships after the termination of their launch program in 2011.
The first stage provides for the delivery of cargo, while the delivery of astronauts will be carried out by Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
However, the Falcon 9 / Dragon system was originally conceived as a means of delivering astronauts to the station, and, taking into account the recommendations of the Augustin Commission, according to which the delivery of people should be carried out by commercial operators, it is assumed that SpaceX (and similar companies) can become the main space transport channel in the near future.[source not specified 330 days]
According to Elon himself, he was greatly influenced by the cycle of science fiction novels "The Foundation" and Isaac Asimov's views on the exploration of outer space as the development (and preservation) of human existence.
Musk claims that the coverage of life on several planets can serve as a protection against the threat of human extinction.
"An asteroid or a supervolcano can destroy us, and in addition, we are exposed to risks that dinosaurs never dreamed of: an artificially created virus, the accidental appearance of a microscopic black hole as a result of a physical experiment, catastrophic global warming, or some other destructive technology unknown to date can end our existence.
It took millions of years for humanity to develop, but over the past sixty years, atomic weapons have created the potential for self destruction.
Sooner or later, our life will have to go beyond this blue green ball — or we will die out"[9][10].
Elon Musk has set a goal — to reduce the cost of space flights by 10 times.
To do this, he founded SpaceX, investing in it $ 100 million earned from the sale of his previous companies[3].
He proposes to colonize Mars by detonating thermonuclear charges at the poles of the planet, thereby causing carbon dioxide evaporation, which, in turn, should cause a greenhouse effect, due to which the average temperature on the red planet should significantly increase[11].
In January 2016, at an investment forum in Hong Kong, Musk announced that his company hopes to fly to Mars in 2020-2025, in about 9 years[12].
Tesla Motors[edit / edit wiki text]
Main article: Tesla Motors
Philanthropy[edit / edit wiki text]
In January 2015, he donated $ 10 million for research on the control of artificial intelligence[13].
In 2008, Esquire magazine included Musk in the list of the 75 most influential people of the XXI century[14].
In June 2011, he was awarded the Heinlein Prize for achievements in the commercialization of space in the amount of 500 thousand US dollars[15].
In February of the same year, Forbes magazine included Musk in the list of the 20 most influential CEOs under the age of forty[16].
In November 2013, Fortune Magazine named him Businessman of the year, and The Wall Street Journal named Musk CEO of the Year[17].
Personal life[edit / edit wiki text]
His first wife, Justin Musk, studied with him at the same university in Canada.
They got married in 2000, and the family had five sons.
In September 2008, Elon and Justin announced a rift, and soon it became known that Musk was dating British actress Talulah Riley[18].
In 2010, Elon married Talulah Riley, the wedding ceremony was held on September 25 at the cathedral of Dornoch in Scotland[19].
In January 2012, the couple filed for divorce[20].
In July 2013, the relationship was resumed, but on December 31, 2014, Musk again filed for divorce, paying his wife about $ 16 million this time, compared to $ 4.2 million for the first time.
the source is not specified 330 days]
Movies[edit / edit wiki text]
According to Jon Favreau, the director of the film "Iron Man" (2008), Elon Musk served as the prototype of Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr.[21][22][23].
In 2010, Musk appeared in the movie "Iron Man 2" as himself (according to the plot, Elon is a friend of Tony Stark).
In 2013, he also played himself in an episode of the movie "Machete Kills".
Musk is visible among the audience who came to the presentation of artificial intelligence in the science fiction film "Superiority" (2014, at the 00:07:39 mark), but his name is not in the credits[24].
Elon Musk voiced a cameo in the 12th episode of the 26th season of the animated series "The Simpsons", released on January 25, 2015.
In the 9th episode of the 9th season of the TV series "The Big Bang Theory" plays himself.
Property[edit / edit wiki text]
Musk owned a Czechoslovak made Aero L 39 Albatros aircraft[25].
Now he owns a Dassault Falcon 900 jet plane from the movie "They Smoke Here" [26].
After selling Zip2 in 1999, Musk bought a McLaren F1 supercar, [4] but crashed it the following year, when Peter Thiel, the co founder of PayPal, was driving with him[27].
In October 2013, Musk bought the Wet Nellie submarine from the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"at an auction for 997 thousand dollars[28].
See also[edit / edit wiki text]
The PayPal Mafia
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
Comments
↑ There is also a transliteration of the name Elon.
I.
Musk himself is also known for his sharpness in relations with people, especially subordinates
Sources
↑ Fehrenbacher, Katie Tesla Founder Eberhard Files Lawsuit Against Tesla's Elon Musk.
gigaom.com (June 11, 2009).
Verified on April 18, 2014.
↑ Elon Musk on Forbes Lists (English) ↑ 1 2 3 " Elon Musk:Fortune favors the brave", The Economist, Jul 4th 2015 ↑ 1 2 3 Anton Osipov.
The person is Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX.
Vedomosti (May 15, 2013).
Checked on February 5, 2015.
Comp Compaq buys Zip2 — CNET News ↑ Chafkin, 2007 ↑ Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001.
sec.gov.
Verified on March 17, 2015.
↑ SEC 10 K (PDF).
eBay (December 31, 2002).
↑ Reach for the Star: To be or not to be a person in Space 21.02.2015 ↑ Person: so who is this Tony Stark?
December 11, 2014 Ил Elon Musk proposed to start colonizing Mars with thermonuclear bombing ↑ Elon Musk was going to send a man to Mars in nine years ↑ " Scientists: artificial intelligence can be dangerous ", BBC, July 8, 2015 ↑ Elon Musk - Esquire.
Esquire (October 1, 2008).
Archived from the original source on June 8, 2012.
↑ Heinlein Prize Honors Elon Musk of SpaceX.
Archived from the original source on June 8, 2012.
↑ America's 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under.
Forbes.
Archived from the original source on June 8, 2012.
↑ Jonathan Welsh.
Tesla's Elon Musk is Fortune Businessman of the Year (eng.).
The Wall Street Journal (21 November 2013).
Checked on January 13, 2014.
Archived from the original source on January 13, 2014.
↑ Musk J.
"I was a starter wife": inside America's messiest divorce.
marieclaire.com (10 September 2010).
Verified on March 17, 2015.
↑ St Trinians star Talulah Riley marries internet millionaire in fairytale Highland wedding.
Verified on May 15, 2013.
Archived from the original source on May 21, 2013.
↑ Millionaire PayPal founder Elon Musk divorces actress wife Talulah Riley… and announces split via Twitter.
Verified on May 15, 2013.
Archived from the original source on May 21, 2013.
↑ Elon Musk - The 2010 TIME 100 - TIME.
Time (April 29, 2010).
Archived from the original source on June 8, 2012.
↑ Elon Musk's Guide to the Galaxy.
Inc.
(October 1, 2010).
Archived from the original source on June 8, 2012.
Ch Chang, 2010 ↑ Elon Musk (English).
imdb.com.
Verified on March 17, 2015.
↑ Leslie Wayne.
[ttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/business/yourmoney/05rocket.html A Bold Plan to Go Where Men Have Gone Before].
The New York Times (February 5, 2006).
Verified on February 5, 2015.
↑ Tesla CEO Took Private Jet to Washington D.C.
= Alexander Haislip.
PE Hub Network (February 10, 2010).
Verified on February 5, 2015.
↑ Danielle Muoio.
7 cars Elon Musk has owned — and we're not talking about Teslas.
Tech Insider (January 15, 2016).
Verified on February 5, 2015.
↑ Tesla founder Elon Musk buys James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car author = Stuart Dredge.
The Guardian (October 18, 2013).
Accessed February 5, 2015.
Links[edit / edit wiki text]
Musk, Elon in Wikicitatnik?
Musk, Elon on Wikimedia Commons?
Kropotova T. Musk is going to Mars: will the legendary investor change the course of history?.
E xecutive.ru (August 27, 2014).
Verified on August 28, 2014.
Chumachenko A.
The future is safe, or who is Elon Musk.
stalker.od.ua (May 17, 2014).
Verified on May 12, 2015.
Anderson K. Elon Musk's Mission to Mars (eng.).
wired.com (October 21, 2012).
- Interview.
Verified on May 16, 2015 — - Anderson K. (translated from English I. Hel): Elon Musk and his mission to Mars.
hi news.ru (November 30, 2012).
Verified on May 16, 2015.
Chafkin M. Entrepreneur of the Year, 2007: Elon Musk (English).
inc.com (1 December 2007).
Accessed 12 May 2015.
Chang K. Adding Rocket Man to His Résumé.
The New York Times, page D1.
nytimes.com (16 February 2010).
- correction: 19 February, 2010.
Verified on May 16, 2015.
- Chang K. (translated from English by N. Nikitin): Rocket scientist Elon Musk: waiting for the launch of private cosmonautics.
sci lib.com (February 20, 2010).
— (Amateur translation, almost complete).
Verified on May 16, 2015.
Billionaire Elon Musk proposed to drop thermonuclear bombs on Mars
Literature[edit / edit wiki text]
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
By Ashlee Vance.
Ecco Press; 400 pages; $28.99.
Virgin Books; £20.
Source — "https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Маск,_Ilon&oldid=76277413"
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