10 Rare Facts About Elon Musk You Probably Didn't Know

Elon Reeve Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at Space X; early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. A centibillionaire, Musk is one of the richest people in the world.In these blog we'll see 10 rare facts about Elon Musk we probably didn't know

1)Real life Iron Man -

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Parts of Iron Man were filmed inside and outside of Space-X.There was also a 'blink and you miss it' cameo in the film.He also Guest starred in an episode of big bang theory and the Simpsons.

2) He has 7 kids and is married 3 times-

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Musk married sci fi writer Justin William in 2000.They have 5 sons together.After separating in 2008,he married English actress Talulah Riley in 2010.In 2012 the couple got divorce only to marry again in 2013.They again got divorced in 2016.Musk is currently dating Canadian musician Grimes.They have a son in may 2020.(Kyle Musk)

3)Born in South Africa -

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Musk was born in South Africa to Errol and Maye musk on 28 january 1972.He moved to the Canada at the age of 17.Three years later he moved to the US to study business and physics at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.He holds South African,Canadian and American citizenship.Currently he is living in Los Angeles, California.

4)Self taught Programmer -

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At the age of 12,musk taught himself computer programming and coding.He even created a game called "Blaster" during this time.It is a sci fi inspired, space theme game,that showed his inclination towards technology and space at an early age.He sold the code for Blaster for 500$.You can still find the game online.

5) He was pushed around as a kid -

Musk was the youngest and smallest in the class not to mention the smartest.So he was often tormented by the older kids.He withdrew his books and computer to escape from it.As a result,he learnt karate,judo and wrestling at the age of 15.

6) Stanford University Dropout -

After earning degrees in physics and economics from Pennsylvania,Musk moved to California to get a Ph.D in applied physics at Stanford University.But he dropped out in just 2 days to pursue his entrepreneur vision.He started'Zip 2 Corporation' along with his brother Kimbal that provided licensed online city guide for newspaper publishers.He sold the company to Compaq in 1999 for 300 million dollars.

7)He Co-founded PayPal -

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Musk started an online banking company in 1999,which he later merged with another software company.The name of the merged company was PayPal.After being the CEO for a while he was removed from his own company in 2000 due to leadership disagreement. Paypal was later acquired by Ebay for $1.5 billion.Musk received a share of $165 million.

8) Eccentric Ideas -

Elon Musk is a creative genius and whips out some of the most unbelievable and yet inventive ideas for the future.For example,his most desired ideas is to make mars habitable for humans and colonize it.He also want to breathe his last on the red planet.He wants to build a Hyperloop that travels 1200 kmph. He also wants space tourism a real thing and is already planning for it.With Neuralink he wants to build a technology that will quite literally connect human with computers.Thereby, Improving their memory and decision making ability.

9)Tesla and SpaceX -

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Today Elon Musk is famous for these two names.He is co founder of Tesla,a company that manufactures electric sports cars.As the co-founder and CEO,he leads all the designing, engineering and global marketing and manufacturing of Tesla product.In 2002,he founded Space X,A company that creates space launch vehicle with the aim to reduce space transportation costs and make humanity multi-planetary. No investor was willing to invest in it,and he channeled his own money to make it a reality.Today, Space X is the most innovative venture and is valued for $36 billion.

10) Rich and successful -

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Well,after passing Jeff Bezoz(Amazon CEO) he is the richest man in the world.Now he has a net worth of $186 billion.He has been a consistent name in Forbes in the list of most powerful people.He also features first on America's most innovative Leaders.

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