Elon Musk, a thought leader and serial entrepreneur is a person you must know about! He has been introduced to us by Tor, one of our members who shared this with us on our 15th Jan celebration. See his presentation Most admireable entrepreneur 2013
In a nutshell, Elon Musk was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of a Canadian mother and a South African father. His father is an engineer and his mother is an author, nutritionist and model. He bought his first computer at the age of 10 and taught himself how to program; by the age of 12 he sold his first commercial software for about $500, a space game called Blastar.
He left home in 1988 at the age of 17, without his parents’ support and in part because of the prospect of compulsory service in the South African military.
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n 1992, after spending two years at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, he left Canada, pursuing business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on a full scholarship. From the The Wharton School, he received an undergraduate degree in Business, and from University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, he received a second bachelor’s degree in Physics.
His undergraduate degrees behind him, he then considered three areas he wanted to get into that were “important problems that would most affect the future of humanity”, as he said later, “One was the Internet, one was clean energy, and one was space”.
He has described himself as a workaholic who routinely invests 100 hours per week running his two companies, often flying in a fuel-efficient corporate jet. One of his factories was used as a filming location for Iron Man 2 and he also had a cameo in the movie. Some of the most famous ventures he created arePayPal,
Tesla Motors (premium electric vehicles), SolarCity (largest provider of solar energy in the US).
Elon is an optimist who accepts the risks involved in implementing his ideas, and any challenge gets crushed by his enthusiasm and determination.
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