Elon Musk is an engineer, designer and technology entrepreneur and CEO / Co-founder of Tesla. He was born on the 28th of June, 2017 in Pretoria, South Africa.
The Tesla brand was established in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and MArc Tarpenning. Musk has become the public face of the Tesla brand since becoming involved in the brand in February 2004.
Elon Musk's first notable career move occured in 1995 when he and his brother, Kimbal, started a web software company called Zip2. The company developed a mapping and direction platform which was later acquired by Compaq for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options. Musk received US$22 million from the sale.
After that Musk became involed in PayPal. When PayPal was sold to eBay in October 2002 Musk was the company's largest shareholder, receiving US$165 million in the sale.
SpaceX is a current project Musk remains involved in. He is hoping to reduce the cost of human flights to space by a factor of 10. In a 2011 interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, Musk stated he hope to send humans to Mars' surface within 10-20 years.
Tesla remains the brand that Elon Musk is most renowned for due to the company's growing commercial success throughout the world and innovative product line. Tesla is at the forefront of creating vehicles that utilise sustainable energy.
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