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Elon Musk
Biography of Elon Musk, information about him
The article is dedicated to the founder of the company, about whom we, at RuTesla, most often write.
The name of this company is Tesla Motors, and the name of its founder is Elon Musk.
Many automotive publications that write about Tesla electric vehicles incorrectly translate Musk.
Have you noticed that we are in RuTesla.com we always write "Elon", whereas most people read and write as "Elon".
But let's omit these details, even if they are quite significant.
Let's move on to the description of the life of this outstanding person.
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in the Republic of South Africa, in the administrative capital – Pretoria.
Elon Musk is known around the world not only because of his participation in the founding of Tesla Motors.
Earlier, this person founded a company whose services are used by almost the whole world.
This company is the world's largest operator of electronic payments – Paypal.
Tesla Motors is not the only technology company of Elon Musk.
Another major company is SpaceX, founded in 2002.
Elon Musk's ideas and ambitions win the hearts of many people.
He is often compared to Steve Jobs, but the goals of these figures are very different, and Elon is far from a master of public speaking.
But his ideas are much more useful to society.
Let's quote for example the words of Garrett Reisman about SpaceX:
The company was founded in order to promote human space exploration.
This is the main reason for our existence.
The childhood of Elon Musk
As we have already written, the future founder of Tesla Motors grew up in one of the capitals of the Republic of South Africa.
Wikipedia reports that Musk at the age of 10 already studied programming himself, and at the age of 12 he earned $ 500 by selling his game Blastar.
When he turned 17, he moved to Canada, and at the age of 19 he moved to study at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied business and physics.
It's an unusual combination, isnot it?
At the age of 24, together with his brother Kimbal Musk, he created the company Zip2.
After 4 years, the company was sold.
Before taxes, Elon Musk received $ 22 million for his 7% of shares.
The era of electronic payments
In the same year, Musk became one of the founders X.com – a company that was engaged in electronic payments.
In March 2000, X.com acquired the company Confinity, which created a money transfer system called PayPal.
PayPal was only a month old at the time of purchase.
Believing in the success of PayPal, Elon Musk began a transformation X.com in PayPal.
In 2002, PayPal was sold to the online auction site Ebay.
The future founder of Tesla Motors received $ 165 million from the sale.
SpaceX Company
For the funds received from the sale of PayPal, Elon Musk founded the company SpaceX, which still exists and wins tenders from NASA.
The company's field of activity is the creation of launch vehicles for the transportation of both cargo and astronauts.
Since the last shuttle launch was carried out in 2011, there are prospects that SpaceX will become the main transport for the transportation of astronauts.
There is also the option of using Russian "Soyuz" s, but with a political crisis, probably, "Soyuz" is not the solution.
The innovation, if you can write it that way, of SpaceX rockets is that they are reusable.
Now the rockets are used only once, after which the next rocket is needed to re launch.
The approach used in SpaceX significantly reduces the cost of space launches, which makes the company also a contender for cheap commercial launches of people into space.
Right there, Richard Branson and his Virgin Galaxy compete with Elon Musk.
SpaceX is behind the idea of the need to settle other planets and the development of humanity in the field of space exploration and exploration.
Undoubtedly, a noble and more than adequate idea.
Do not miss important information about SpaceX – ruTesla.com publishes SpaceX news in a special section.
The company Tesla Motors
Finally, we have reached the one of the companies of Elon Musk, about which we are on ruTesla.com we write most often.
Tesla Motors was founded a year after the creation of SpaceX, in 2003.
The field of activity of this company is the creation of environmentally friendly electric vehicles.
It is quite a sound idea, given that oil reserves are still running out, and the air in populated areas is becoming increasingly dirty.
The first car available for sale was introduced by Tesla Motors in 2008.
We know this electric car called the Tesla Roadster.
And although the car was not as enthusiastically received by the world as we would like, in an hour we can recall the scandal on Top Gear, Elon Musk and his company worked hard on more advanced electric cars and in 2011 the Tesla Model S was presented to the world.
And she's something.
You can read more about the electric car here Tesla Model S.
At the end of 2014, Tesla Motors will present the Tesla Model X – a new interesting electric crossover car.
It is also expected to create a budget electric car in 2015.
For more information about the company's activities and its achievements, see the article Chronology of events of Tesla Motors.
Read also the Tesla Motors news on our website.
Elon Musk Awards
2008 Esquire awarded included the founder of Tesla Motors in the top 75 most influential people of the XXI century.
2011 – according to Forbes, included in the list of the TOP 20 most influential CEOs under 40.
2011 – awarded the Heinlein Award 23.06.2011 – 3 awards at the Stevie Awards 28.10.2011 — Elon Musk is named "Technological Innovator of the Year" by the Wall Street Journal 2013 – Fortune named Musk entrepreneur of the Year 2013 — The Wall Street Journal named him CEO of the Year 10.02.2014 — Elon Musk receives the Edison Achievement Award 11.03.2014 — Elon Musk receives the Encore Award
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