35 extremely interesting facts about Elon Musk you may not know yet

Elon Musk probably isn't an unfamiliar name for many of us.He is an American inventor, businessman, and billionaire.Elon Musk is not only a famous genius, but also known as SpaceX's founder, as well as co-founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal.In December 2016, Elon Musk was ranked 21th by Forbes in the list of World's Most Powerful People.As of January 2019, the billionaire's fortune is estimated at $ 20.4 billion and listed by Forbes as the 54th richest person in the world.

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However, it is only very basic information about this genius billionaire.Elon Musk is also known as a businessman who is very playful and has a 'hobby' to do things like 'no one'.Here are 35 extremely interesting facts about the career of billionaire Elon Musk that you may not know.

1. Elon Musk was born and raised in South Africa in 1971. He then moved to live and study for a long time in Canada and now he lives in the United States.

2. Elon Musk started to become famous when founding and developing Tesla Motors and SpaceX, but few knew that he had been a voice in American investors as a fellow founder of PayPal - one of the largest e-commerce companies, providing payment services and money transfer through the world's largest Internet.

3. Elon Musk is a model that inspires many Hollywood celebrities, including Tony Stark (also known as Iron Man in the blockbuster movie of the same name).Elon Musk even has a guest role in this cult movie!

4. Like Steve Jobs and other famous entrepreneurs, Elon Musk's annual official salary for CEO position at Tesla Motors is just . $ 1.

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5. At the age of 12, Elon Musk personally studied computer programming and created an electronic game called Blastar.This game was then sold for $ 500.

6. While working and living primarily in the US, it was not until 2002 that Elon Musk officially became an American citizen at the age of 31.

7. When Elon Musk was 17, he moved from South Africa to Canada to live and study.A few years later, the billionaire went to the United States and studied at the University of Pennsylvania.

8. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Elon Musk moved to California to begin graduate studies in physics at Stanford University.Interestingly, after just two days at Stanford, he abruptly changed his mind, "no more craving for higher education" but turned to looking for opportunities with the explosion of the Internet, which was very popular at the time. there.

9. After leaving school, Elon Musk quickly set up his first company - Zip2, which provides online journalism services, along with maps and business listings.He sold his 'first child' in 1999 for $ 307 million.

10. In 1999, Elon Musk became the co-founder of X.com, a PayPal online predecessor, before being bought by eBay for $ 1.5 billion in stock value (in That $ 165 million was given directly to Elon Musk).

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11. After a while, Elon Musk became the co-founder of Tesla Motors, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of electric sports cars.Tesla then developed very quickly and became one of the world's pioneering green car manufacturers, and could compete fairly with other established and long-established automakers like Ford, Mercedes or BWM . Currently, Elon Musk is the CEO and product architect at Tesla.

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12. The Tesla Model S electric car has been awarded the world's safest model with a record score of 5.4 out of 5, which is more than the maximum from the US Road Safety Administration.At the same time, this is also the highest ranking ever given to a commercial car.

13. Elon Musk is one of the main characters behind the development and success of SolarCity, a company founded by a cousin.In addition, the billionaire is also the largest shareholder of this company.

14 Elon Musk is also the founder of SpaceX (also known as Space Explective Technologies), a company specializing in the creation and production of aerospace research and exploitation facilities, with a special focus on rocket technology.Elon Musk said that his main purpose when incubating SpaceX's birth was to help reduce costs and risks for human space flights in the future, hoping to master space and examination. breaking out of life beyond the Earth.

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15. Initially, Elon Musk had a lot of difficulties in calling SpaceX funding because investors thought his idea was a distant dream.Too 'bitter' Elon Musk decided to 'play dry blood' when putting all of his assets into this project to make SpaceX a reality.He went against all the advice from top US business analysts and market analysts at the time.In the end time proved that Elon Musk's decision was absolutely correct and he was indeed a genius.

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16. Recently, SpaceX has signed a $ 1.6 billion contract with NASA to become a supplier of equipment (and eventually people) to the International Space Station, replacing the Con. The capital is said to have become less effective.

17. Elon Musk has succeeded in reducing the cost of accessing the ISS International Space Station by 90%, making difficult supply missions in space that had previously cost nearly $ 1 billion to done, now only 60 million dollars.

18. Elon Musk says his burning desire is that one day his Falcon missile will be able to help mankind make space tours, and further to make the 'landing' of Humanity to Mars is no longer a distant dream.

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19. Falcon missile is named after the fictional Millennium Falcon spaceship in the Star Wars blockbuster.

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20. SpaceX was the first commercial company to successfully restore a spacecraft returning from Earth orbit.In addition, Dragon is also the first commercial spacecraft to have access to the ISS international space station.

21. Before achieving such great success, both Elon Musk's leading companies, SpaceX and Tesla Motors, have experienced many serious failures and stood on the brink of bankruptcy.For Tesla Motors, its first electric car, Tesla Roadster faced a series of serious problems in production.In SpaceX there were three failed attempts to launch Falcon X into space before achieving success in the fourth attempt.

22. Elon Musk has been married three times, in which he married (and later divorced) with the famous British actress Talulah Riley twice.

23. Elon Musk has five sons (including a pair of twins and a triplets - it is true that special people give birth in a 'different' way).In particular, these are his children with his first wife, Canadian fictional author Justine Wilson.Both are currently divorced but are still sharing custody with each other.

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24. Elon Musk is a hard fan of the X-Men blockbuster series.He named one of his five children Xavier - after Professor Xavier in the X-Men.

25. Elon Musk founded Musk Foundation with the aim of concentrating resources in exploiting the potential of space and exploring clean energy sources.The Musk Mars Desert Observatory in Utah is under the control of this fund.

26. The Musk Foundation also runs a simulated Mars environment that allows visitors to experience how life on Mars will actually take place.

27. Elon Musk is called "thrillionaire", the noun refers to a new business class, rich in high technology and wants to use its wealth to turn dreams that only appear in ministries. Sci-fi movies come true.

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28. Elon Musk is one of the best celebrities to support solutions to combat global warming, as well as contribute to promoting humanity towards sustainable energy use.He sees this as the main source of motivation for establishing Tesla Motors and SolarCity.

29. Elon Musk has signed a commitment to Giving Pledge.In it he pledged to donate most of his assets to charity efforts.Many other well-known billionaires have also signed a memorandum, including Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg . and many others.

30. Elon Musk owns Wet Nellie, the submarine 'parcel goods' inspired by the Lotus Esprit car in the James Bond movie - The Spy Who Loved Me.

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31. Elon Musk was voted one of the 75 most influential people in the 21st century by Esquire magazine. In 2013, Fortune was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla Motors.

33. On January 25, 2015, Elon Musk appeared as a guest in the episode The Simpsons titled "The Musk Who Fell to Earth", with content about the billionaire himself.The film is adapted from a humorous script that revolves around bold ideas, unlike Elon Musk's.

34. The International Federation of Aronautique, the world governing body for aerospace records, awarded Elon Musk the FAI Gold Space Medal in 2010 after the success of the first private missile model flying into the fund. the earth.AI Gold Space Medal is also the highest award of Aronautique organization, and was also awarded to Neil Armstrong - the first person to set foot on the Moon.

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35. In 2013, Elon Musk introduced Hyperloop - an idea that he had cherished for a long time.It is a new form of transportation that could theoretically take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour with a pressure tube.Elon Musk said if no one cared about this idea, he would turn it into reality as he did with SpaceX.

These are 35 interesting things in Elon Musk's career - a contemporary genius, a precious gem that mankind has ever produced.Wish Elon Musk and his projects will be more successful in the future, to lead people to a better life!

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