5 days Writing Challenge - Meet a genius (Elon Musk) - Day 5. Set to 10% payout to Steemalive.
Introduction
Hi friends, how are you doing today, I hope you are all and safe where ever you may be? This is my fifth and last entry to the @steemalive contest titled "5 Days Writing Challenge". In this eddition, I will review the life and carrer of Elon musk. Please stay with me.
ELON MUSK - Engineer Business Man & an Entrepreneur
Background
Elon musk was born in June 28 1971 at Pretoria Transvaal south Africa. As at 30th September 2021, he was the richest individual in the whole world.
Parents:- He was born to a south African father (Errol Musk) and Canadian mother (Maye Musk). The father worked worked at construction and emerald mining, while the mother was a model.
Personal Life:- He have been married to diffrent women at different times as shown below.
| S/N | Name of spouse | Period of time married |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin wilson | 2000 - 2008 |
| 2 | Talulah Riley | 2010 - 2012 |
| 3 | Talulah Riley | 2013 - 2016 |
| 4 | Grimes | 2018 - 2021 |
He has 7 children made up of one set of twins and one set of triplets.
Education:- Bellow are the list of schools attended by Elon musk;
- Waterkloof house preparatory school.
- Bryanston high school.
- Pretoria boys high school.
- University of Pretoria.
- Queens University Kingston, Ontario. ( He transferred from here to University of Pennsylvania)
- University of Pennsylvania. (Bachelor's degree in physics and economics)
- Stamford University of California (for PhD, but later dropped out)
Career
After graduation from the University, musk tried to apply for a job at Natsvape but he did not get any response which made him drop out of school (where be was running his P.hd) programme to join internet boom and lunched an internet startup which, which was a software for media houses.
Other of his achievement may include;
- He was the youngest to earn a professional Engineer qualification in South Africa.
- He is the words exponent for turning scientific fictions into reality.
- Developed a video game at the age of ten, which he sold for $500 at the age of 12.
- In 1995. He teamed up with Timbal and Greg Kouri and founded a wed software company called Zip2.
- He cofounder x.ccm in 1999 which later merged with confinity to form PayPal. They later sold it for $1.5 billion to eBay in 2002.
- In 2002, Musk founded space x, this is an aerospace manufacturing and transportation services wherebe I the CEO And CTO.
- He joined Telsa inc. motors In 2014. ( An electric manufacturer company) as chairman and product architecg later in 2008, he became the CEO.
- He helped create a solar star energy services company called x solar in 2006 which was later acquired by Telsa and resumed Telsa energy.
- Co-founded openal in 2015 (a nonprofit research company that is aimed at fostering friendly artificial intelligence.
- Neurotechnology was founded by musk . This company aims at developing brain computer interference.
- He founded boring company (a tunnel construction company)
- Musk so was the person that proposed the Hyperloop a high speed vatrain transportation system.
Why I Chose Elon Musk
- He is a go getter.
- He have always wanted to create new things from scratch solve the problems of the world and also generate funds there in.
- I love his determined mind.
- I love his passion for education which was one of the reasons he acheived lots of things.
Elon. Musk is really a great man I must say, I've heard and read a lot about him with regards to the crypto space and some other entreprenual related courses, he's indeed a great man
Thank you dear @uzoma24 for sharing about this great man and best wishes on the contest sir.
When Elon Musk became the world richest man, I was determined to know about his story and made a lot of findings about him that inspired me. Your post has contributed greatly to my knowledge about him. All the best in life sir.
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