Elon Musk
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Entrepreneur
Listed recently in Fortune magazine as one of the “40 Richest
Under 40,” Elon Musk is in the company-launching
business. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful
Internet entrepreneurs to emerge from the 1990s. Before the
age of thirty-two, Elon Musk had founded Zip2, a software
company, and sold it to Compaq. He then founded PayPal,
the world’s leading electronic payment system, which he sold
to eBay for $1.5 billion
He is presently personally bankrolling his dream of building
rockets with his company SpaceX, a company devoted to
reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of access to
space.
Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk showed entrepreneurial
aptitude early. At age twelve, he taught himself to
write computer code and designed a game called “Blast Star,”
a mix of two other popular games. At age seventeen, he moved
to Canada. He eventually transferred to the University of
Pennsylvania and earned undergraduate degrees in physics
and business. He was then off to Silicon Valley to start his
company-launching endeavors.
His dreams go further than space exploration, and he has
established the Musk Foundation to support philanthropic
objectives in education, clean and renewable energy, and
medical research.