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Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. He is a business magnate and investor.

Zip2

Along with his brother, he founded Zip2. In 1999, he sold Zip2 for over 300 million to Compaq and invert this money into his next venture. Xcom is an online bank, a business model that encourages its users to transfer funds digitally, with no need for mail or traditional banking infrastructure.

In 2000 Xcom merged with software company Confinity, creating PayPal, a secure online payments platform with a foundation in payments conducted for PalmMiltons. Eventually, Musk and his partners sold it to eBay in 2002 for a 1.5 billion stock deal.

SpaceX

Also, in 2002 SpaceX was founded by Musk, who set his sights on space exploration, SpaceX is known for reutilizable rockets, being the first company to send a craft to the International Space Station and send astronauts to orbit.

In addition to SpaceX, the Musk Foundation Its stated goals include supporting renewable energy and pediatric research and education, and the development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.

Tesla

Nowadays, Elon is recognized for his leadership at Tesla, the electric car company which designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and leases fully electric vehicles and energy generation and storage systems.

Solar City

Solar City was founded by his cousins in 2006, receiving Musk’s patronage from the offset. Musk via Tesla acquired solar city in 2016 for 2.6 billion in stock and incorporated

it into its operations as Tesla Energy. SolarCity is solar energy that became the leading residential solar installer in the U.S.

Open AI

In 2015 Musk co-founded Open AI as a non-profit with an artificial intelligence research lab component, but he ended up due to conflicts with Tesla’s projects.

The Boring Company

The Boring Company is a company founded by Musk with the intention of helping dispel city traffic via underground tunnels as a subsidiary of SpaceX. In 2021 completed a tunnel project in La Vegas to shuttle visitors beneath the La Vegas Convention Center.

Twitter

Finally in 2022 Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion with the plan to improve the app to defeat spam bots and authenticate all humans.

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