Elon Musk Is A Genius of Our Time

Elon Musk is
a genius of our time

Who is Elon Musk?
 He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX

 Co-founder, CEO, and product architect of
Tesla Inc.
 Co-chairman of OpenAI
 Founder and CEO of Neuralink
Early Life
• Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. As
a child, Musk was so lost in his daydreams about inventions
that his parents and doctors ordered a test to check his
hearing.
• At about the time of his parents’ divorce, when he was 10,

Musk developed an interest in computers. He taught himself
how to program, and when he was 12 he sold his first
software: a game he created called Blastar.
• In grade school, Musk was short, introverted and bookish. He

was bullied until he was 15 and went through a growth spurt
and learned how to defend himself with karate and wrestling.
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At 17 years old, in 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend

Queen’s University and avoid mandatory service in the South
African military. Musk obtained his Canadian citizenship that year,
in part because he felt it would be easier to obtain American
citizenship via that path.
In 1992, Musk left Canada to study business and physics at the
University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate
degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor’s degree in
physics.
After leaving Penn, Musk headed to Stanford University in
California to pursue a PhD in energy physics. However, his move
was timed perfectly with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of
Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his
first company, Zip2 Corporation in 1995. Musk became a U.S.
citizen in 2002.
Unternehmen
Zip2 Corporation
Musk launched his first company, Zip2 Corporation, in

1995 with his brother, Kimbal Musk. An online city
guide, Zip2 was soon providing content for the new
websites of both The New York Times and the Chicago
Tribune. In 1999, a division of Compaq Computer
Corporation bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and
$34 million in stock options.
Unternehmen
PayPal
In 1999, Elon and Kimbal Musk used the money

from their sale of Zip2 to found X.com, an online
financial services/payments company. An X.com
acquisition the following year led to the creation
of PayPal as it is known today.
In October 2002, Musk earned his first billion when
PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in
stock. Before the sale, Musk owned 11 percent of
PayPal stock.
Unternehmen
SpaceX
Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration

Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with
the intention of building spacecraft for commercial
space travel. By 2008, SpaceX was well established,
and NASA awarded the company the contract to
handle cargo transport for the International Space
Station—with plans for astronaut transport in the
future—in a move to replace NASA’s own space
shuttle missions.
Space X
Falcon 1 Falcon 9 Dragon
Tesla Motors
 Musk is a co-founder and currently head of product design at

Tesla Motors.
 Musk is principally responsible for an overarching business
strategy that aims to deliver affordable electric vehicles to
mass-market consumers.
 In addition to it’s own cars, the Tesla Roadster and the Model S,
Tesla sells electric power trains systems to Mercedes-Benz and
Toyota.
 Musk’s aim is to bring other carmakers to develop electric
powertrains in order to reduce the use of fossil fuels and
emissions.
 Musk also develop supercharger station in 2012 to facilitate
longer distance journey. As of 2014, there are currently 65
stations in United States and 14 others across Europe region.
Tesla Motors
Tesla model X
Tesla Roadster
Tesla model S
SolarCity
SolarCity is an American provider of energy services to homeowners,
businesses, and government/non-profit organizations.
• Among its primary services, the company designs, finances and
installs solar energy systems, performs energy efficiency audits and
retrofits and builds charging stations for electric vehicles.
• SolarCity has grown in recent years to meet the rapidly growing

installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the United States.
• Musk provided the initial concept for SolarCity, which was then
cofounded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. Musk remains the
largest shareholder. SolarCity is now the largest provider of solar
power systems in the United States.
• The underlying motivation for funding both SolarCity and Tesla is
to help combat global warming.
Inspirational and Motivational
Elon Musk Quotes
Persistence is very important. You should not give up
unless you are forced to give up.
When something is important enough, you do it even if

the odds are not in your favour.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are

not innovating enough.
Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when

it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
Thanks for attention!

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Elon Musk is

a genius of our time

 He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX

• At about the time of his parents’ divorce, when he was 10,

• In grade school, Musk was short, introverted and bookish. He

At 17 years old, in 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend

Musk launched his first company, Zip2 Corporation, in

In 1999, Elon and Kimbal Musk used the money

Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration

 Musk is a co-founder and currently head of product design at

• SolarCity has grown in recent years to meet the rapidly growing

When something is important enough, you do it even if

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are

Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when

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