Tribute to Elon Musk

1971

Elon is born in Pretoria South Africa

Elon teaches himself how to code in Visual Basic.

Elon creates and sells a video game for $500.

Elon graduates high school and moves to Canada with his mother.

Elon recieves his B.S. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Leaves Ph.D. program at Stanford to pursue his passions

Elon and brother found Zip2 , a city guide company, and sell it for $34M in 1999

Elon founds X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company

X.com merges with Confinity and focuses on developing a service called PayPal

Confinity was renammed to PayPal and is acquired by Ebay in 2002 for $1.5B

Elon founds SpaceX , an aerospace manufacturer and space transport company

Elon becomes chairman of Tesla Inc. , an automaker and energy storage company

Elon provides intial concept and capital for SolarCity and is founded by his cousins.

Elon becomes CEO and product architect of Tesla Inc., positions he still holds today

Elon unveils the concept for a high-speed transportation system and calls it Hyperloop

Elon and others found OpenAI, a non-profit that aims to develop AI safely and responsibly

Elon, unveils idea to create underground tunnels for faster transportaion. Will he pursue?