Happy Birthday Elon Musk: Elon Musk, the owner of companies like Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, celebrates his 52nd birthday today. Elon Musk, born on June 28, 1971, is the richest man in the world today. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth is $225 billion. His full name is Elon Reeve Musk. Today he manages many businesses simultaneously. Few people know that Elon Musk first amassed a huge fortune as the co-founder of PayPal. His story of becoming the richest man in the world is very interesting, let’s find out-
Schooling from South Africa, Graduated from America
Elon Musk completed his schooling from Waterkloof House Preparatory School in Pretoria, South Africa. After finishing high school, he moved to Canada at the age of 17. After that he studied at Queen’s University, University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, he briefly enrolled in a PhD program at Stanford, but dropped out midway to join the dotcom boom of the 1990s.
Made and sold a video game at age 12
Elon Musk has been fond of video games since childhood. He was so passionate about it that at the age of 12, he created and sold his first video game. He earned $500 from this game called Blaster. He mastered computer programming at a very young age. Musk, 27, started the company Zip2 with his brother Kimball, which is believed to be an early version of Yelp and Google Maps. The company bought Compaq in 1999 for $307 million, of which Musk received $22 million.
Elon Musk’s wealth has increased
Elon Musk then invested three-quarters of his net worth in PayPal, of which he was a co-founder. He then sold PayPal to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Musk received $180 million for being the largest shareholder. Musk invested this money to launch SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. After that, he launched Tesla in 2003. Musk is the co-founder and CEO of Neuralink and The Boring Company. Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder in 2016. After that, he offered $44 billion to buy the company. The matter became embroiled in legal complications and eventually Musk became the owner of the company.
