Elon Reeve Musk
I spoke to you this morning about the latest feat of Elon Musk and his team, to send Heavy Flask into space with a Tesla on board.
But who is this rich man who uses his money for big futuristic projects?
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria. He is an entrepreneur, entrepreneur, engineer of South African origin naturalized Canadian in 1988, then American in 2002 and currently installed in Los Angeles. He is the CEO and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX Corporation, CEO, Product Architecture Director of Tesla Corporation and former Chairman of the Board of SolarCity Corporation. He is also the founder of The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company.
He is father of six boys he had with Justine Wilson, with whom he was married from 2000 to 2008. In 2010, he married the actress Talulah Riley and divorced him in 2012 before he marry again in 2013 and redivore in March 2016.
In April 2017, he formalized his relationship with American actress Amber Heard, who has just divorced actor Johnny Depp. However, a few months later, they separate.
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Zip2 and was one of the leading executives of X.com, which merged with Confinity and took the name of Paypal.
In 2015, he co-founded and co-chairs OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence research association whose goal is to promote and develop open-source AI for the benefit of humanity as a whole.
In January 2017, his fortune is estimated at 20.8 billion US dollars, he is the 21st richest person in America.
Musk said the goals of SolarCity, Tesla and SpaceX revolve around his vision of changing the world and humanity. Its goals are to reduce global warming by producing and consuming sustainable energy and reduce the risk of human extinction by creating a multi-planetary life by establishing a human colony on Mars. Worthy of a good sci-fi movie, I love it; o)
In addition to his commercial activities, he devised a high-speed means of transport known as Hyperloop and proposed a vertical take-off supersonic jet aircraft with electric propulsion.
Youth
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, to an Anglo-South African engineer father, Errol Musk, and a Canadian nutritionist and model mother.
At the age of 12, he sells his first video game program.
Early on, Elon Musk would have read two books a day in various disciplines according to his brother.
His readings were very broad and diverse, covering many areas such as philosophy and religion, science fiction and programming, engineering, business, technology, product design, energy ... This huge The intellectual curiosity that he always possesses is not peculiar to a particular field, it is generalist and constitutes one of the keys to its originality and its exceptional success as an entrepreneur.
At the age of 17, at the end of his studies at Pretoria Boys High School, he announced to his parents that he wanted to study in the United States. He then obtained Canadian citizenship through his maternal affiliation and left South Africa for Kingston, Ontario. For Musk, Canadian nationality makes it easier for him to emigrate to the United States to study than to come from South Africa. He then joined Queen's University and funded his studies through part-time jobs and summer jobs.
In 1992, he left Canada for the United States and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to study physics and commerce, funding his courses through a scholarship. There he studied for three years, receiving an undergraduate degree after his first two years, and stayed there for another year to complete a second undergraduate degree in physics. In 1995, he received a scholarship to pursue a PhD in Energy Physics at Stanford University.
Activities
Elon Musk is the founder of many innovative things so here are some of them:
Zip2
In 1995, Elon Musk suspended his PhD in Energy Physics at Stanford University to co-found Zip2, a publisher of online content publishing software for corporate information. In 1999, Compaq's AltaVista division acquired Zip2 for $ 341 million in cash and stock options. Elon and his brother Kimbal own 12% of Zip.
X.com – PayPal
In March 1999, Musk founded an online bank named X.com, which later ceased banking, but PayPal, the online payment company it had acquired in March 2000, was very successful. In February 2001, X.com changed its name to Paypal. In October 2002, Paypal is sold to eBay for $ 1.5 billion. At the time of the sale, Musk owns 11.7% of Paypal.
On July 5, 2017, Elon Musk bought the x.com domain name from Paypal. On July 14, 2017, Musk announces the launch of x.com on Twitter. The site, consisting of a single visible page, has a simple letter x at the top left, without any graphic cover.
SpaceX
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In June 2002, Musk founded its third company, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).
SpaceX develops and produces reusable first-stage space launch vehicles, with the goal of lowering launch costs and long-term make possible the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets and the Dragon cargo ship.
In 2012, SpaceX supplies the International Space Station.
At the end of 2013, his ambition was to create a supersonic electric plane that could take off and land vertically as well as found a colony of 1,000,000 people on Mars.
In December 2015, Space X made the first recovery of the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket.
In March 2017, SpaceX's first recycled Falcon 9 was launched, with a first floor that had already flown in April 2016.
Tesla Motors
Musk is best known to the general public for the role he plays in Tesla, Inc. After entering the company's capital in 2004, he has been taking control and leading it since 2008. He became president in October 2008. Tesla first built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, and then produced a more economical electric sedan, the Tesla Model S, followed by the Tesla Model X, a high-end SUV. Musk wants to produce accessible electric vehicles.
The profits generated by the Roadster have been used to finance the research and development costs of the following models at lower cost. He is also the investor and Chairman of the Board of SolarCity (photovoltaic products and services), whose cousin Lyndon Rive is the president. The fundamental motivation for creating both companies is to help fight global warming.
In 2008, SpaceX and Tesla face many financial difficulties but are saved the same year. SpaceX is doing well by signing a supply contract with NASA for the $ 1.6 billion international space station. Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon ships have been supplying the station since 2012. Tesla is also saved in 2008 when investors decide to increase their financial holdings in the company.
Hyperloop
In September 2012, Elon Musk reflects on a new mode of transport, a subsonic TGV capable of traveling at 1,200 km/h with passengers in capsules that he wants to be at least twice as fast as the plane and operating with solar energy.
On August 12, 2013, he presented his project Hyperloop which he encouraged the realization by other companies via a competition organized by SpaceX. Since this competition, startups dedicated to the implementation and development of Hyperloop have been born, allowing Musk to focus on automotive and space.
In 2015-2016, Elon Musk no longer runs any Hyperloop projects, but his company SpaceX continues to organize competitions.
Powerwall
In 2015, it offers, under the Tesla brand, a "Powerwall" energy buffer storage system for intermittent energy storage, solar and / or wind energy using lithium-ion batteries with good energy efficiency and battery life. life, accepting incomplete recharges while providing a constant voltage throughout their discharge.
These powerwalls will be able to equip buildings and houses and according to Elon Musk could contribute to completely transform the global energy infrastructure to make it totally sustainable and without producing carbon emissions.
OpenAI
In December 2015, he announced the creation of the OpenAI center on artificial intelligence.
This center will not be for-profit and will bring together dozens of startups in the field of artificial intelligence research.
Neuralink
In 2016, he founded the startup Neuralink whose goal is to connect the brain to integrated circuits in order to merge human and artificial intelligence. It officially announces in June 2017 its goal of marketing the first model by 202128.
The Boring Company
In December 2016, Elon Musk founded a new company: "The Boring Company". This project aims to eliminate traffic jams in large cities by installing a network of underground channels. Elevators positioned on the roadway would allow vehicles to be lowered into the underground network and take them to their destination at a speed of around 200 km / h.
Work begins in Los Angeles in May 2017.
In January 2018, under the pretext of project financing, the company markets a flamethrower-torch household.
I love every ideas of this man, he is amazing !!!