Elon Musk

27 juni 1971

11 januari 1991

15 augustus 1995

4 september 1995

31 oktober 1995

15 februari 1999

28 februari 1999

13 maart 2000

16 mei 2000

1 oktober 2000

2 juni 2002

9 februari 2004

9 februari 2006

5 maart 2010

11 juni 2012

11 augustus 2013

6 juni 2021

9 juli 2021

14 april 2022

24 april 2022

27 oktober 2022

27juni
1971
<h2>Born in South Africa</h2>
27 June 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. 

<h2>Born in South Africa</h2>

11januari
1991
<h2>Blastar video game</h2>
11 January 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>

15augustus
1995
University of Pennsylvania
15 August 1995

University of Pennsylvania

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

University of Pennsylvania

04september
1995
<h2>Moved to California</h2>
04 September 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>

31oktober
1995
Queen University
31 October 1995

Queen University

Elon Musk was accepted into Queen's University.

Queen University

15februari
1999
<h2>Zip2</h2>
15 February 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>

28februari
1999
Compaq acquires Zip2
28 February 1999

Compaq acquires Zip2

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

Compaq acquires Zip2

13maart
2000
Co-founded X.com
13 March 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

16mei
2000
16 May 2000

Marriage Justine Musk

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

 

01oktober
2000
01 October 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.

02juni
2002
Space X
02 June 2002

Space X

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

Space X

09februari
2004
<h2>Investment Tesla Motors</h2>
09 February 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>

09februari
2006
Solar City
09 February 2006

Solar City

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

Solar City

05maart
2010
05 March 2010

Falcon 9

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

11juni
2012
Tesla Model S
11 June 2012

Tesla Model S

Tesla began delivery of its four-door Model S

Tesla Model S

11augustus
2013
Hyperloop
11 August 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

06juni
2021
06 June 2021

Anonymous

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

09juli
2021
09 July 2021

DOGE

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

14april
2022
14 April 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.

24april
2022
24 April 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

27oktober
2022
27 October 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.

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