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Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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27October
2022
27 Oct 2022

Elon Musk official owner Twitter

After months of rumors and negations with Twitter, on Friday 28th of October Elon Musk official buys Twitter. Elon Musk kept saying that Twitter was not clear in providing data on the amount of bots on the platform. But after several talks with the board he finally received the data. Now that Elon Musk is the owner of Twitter he plans to transform the platform to an X application, meaning it will start adding new features. What does will be is still unclear.

24April
2022
24 Apr 2022

Elon Musk buys Twitter for $43B

Elon Musk receives approval from the shareholders of Twitter to buy the rest of all the shares of Twitter for $43 billon dollars. Elon Musk believes the platform has much more potential and expect to grow the platform in the coming years

14April
2022
14 Apr 2022

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

After becoming shareholder of Twitter, Elon Musk takes a next step and offers to buy 100% of Twitter Inc. The board of Twitter is still deciding whether to accept his offer. The price of Twitter stock grew with 18% after the announcement was made.

09July
2021
09 Jul 2021

DOGE

While Bitcoin is declining, Elon Musk keeps on tweeting about Dogecoin and pushes the prices up.

06June
2021
06 Jun 2021

Anonymous

Anonymous sends a message to Elon Musk after tweeting down the crypto market.

11August
2013
11 Aug 2013

Hyperloop

Musk unveiled a proposal for a new form of transportation between the Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area,

Hyperloop

11June
2012
11 Jun 2012

Tesla Model S

Tesla began delivery of its four-door Model S

Tesla Model S

05March
2010
05 Mar 2010

Falcon 9

Musk and President Barack Obama at the Falcon 9 launch site in 2010

09February
2006
09 Feb 2006

Solar City

Musk provided the initial concept, and financial capital for SolarCity, co-founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive

Solar City

09February
2004
09 Feb 2004

Investment Tesla Motors

Musk led the Series A round of investment in February 2004, joining Tesla's Board of Directors as its Chairman.

<h2>Investment Tesla Motors</h2>

02June
2002
02 Jun 2002

Space X

With US$100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies

Space X

01October
2000
01 Oct 2000

eBay buys PayPal

PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which US$165 million was given to Musk.

16May
2000
16 May 2000

Marriage Justine Musk

Elon Musk married Justine in 2000, but they separated in 2008 after having six sons together.

 

13March
2000
13 Mar 2000

Co-founded X.com

Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. The company was one of the first federally insured internet banks, with over 200,000 customers in its first months of existence. Musk's investors viewed him as inexperienced, and before the end of the year, he had been replaced by Bill Harris, the CEO of Intuit. To minimize competition, X.com merged with online bank Confinity the following year. Confinity, which was founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, had its own money-transfer service, PayPal, which was more popular than X.com's.

Co-founded X.com

28February
1999
28 Feb 1999

Compaq acquires Zip2

Musk received 7% or US$22 million from the sale.

Compaq acquires Zip2

15February
1999
15 Feb 1999

Zip2

With US$28,000 money borrowed from Musk's father, Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri started online software startup Zip2 in 1995. They set up shop in Palo Alto in a small rented office. For the newspaper publishing sector, the company created and sold an Internet city guide including maps, directions, and yellow pages. Musk claims that he couldn't afford an apartment before the company became popular, so he rented an office, slept on the couch, showered at the YMCA, and shared one computer with his brother.

<h2>Zip2</h2>

31October
1995
31 Oct 1995

Queen University

Elon Musk was accepted into Queen's University.

Queen University

04September
1995
04 Sep 1995

Moved to California

In 1995 Elon Musk moved to California and applied for physics at Stanford University. However, he left the program after two days.

<h2>Moved to California</h2>

15August
1995
15 Aug 1995

University of Pennsylvania

In 1995 Elon Musk received his Bachelor in Physics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania

11January
1991
11 Jan 1991

Blastar video game

Blastar was a game written by Elon Musk in 1984 (at the age of 12). The source code was published in a magazine and he received $500 for it. You can play a replica of the Blastar video game here: https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/

<h2>Blastar video game</h2>

27June
1971
27 Jun 1971

Born in South Africa

Born on 28th June 1971 in South Africa. Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born, Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company focused on tunnels specialized for electric vehicles. 

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