ELON MUSK
1971–
Technology pioneer, engineer, and philanthropist Elon Musk is best known for heading the electric car manufacturer Tesla. His diverse entrepreneurial successes also include cofounding web maps company Zip2, the internet payment system PayPal, and aerospace company SpaceX, which launched a landmark commercial spacecraft in 2012.
Born in South Africa in 1971, Elon Reeve Musk showed a keen interest in computers from childhood. He lived with his father from the age of nine, and had developed and sold his first video game by age 12. In 1989, Musk left Pretoria to attend college in Canada. ...
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