Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a 41 year old engineer and entrepreneur who builds and operates companies to solve environmental, social and economic challenges. Born in South- Africa and inspired by hisfather’s love to technology, Musk started his “career” at the age of 12 by selling his first commercial software, a game space called Blaster. He holds a physics degree from the University ofPennsylvania and a business degree from Wharton.

He co-founded PayPal and currently drives strategy, development and design at two companies he created, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and TeslaMotors, and oversees a third company, SolarCity, which he co-founded. He led SpaceX’s efforts to be the first private company to successfully launch and dock a spacecraft with the international spacestation.
SpaceX
Musk is CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX. He founded this company in 2002 to build the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft with the ultimate goal of extending human life toother planets. He designed Falcon 1, the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit, as well as the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX made history when its Dragonspacecraft became the first commercial vehicle in history to successfully attach to the International Space Station on May 25th, 2012. In 2008, NASA awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract for 12 cargoflights to and from the International Space Station, effectively replacing the Space Shuttle. In 2010, SpaceX became the first commercial company to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit; afeat previously only achieved by a few nations. In 2011, the company started work preparing the spacecraft to carry astronauts under a NASA award. The first manned flights are expected in 2015.
TeslaMotors
As CEO and head of product design at Tesla Motors, Musk oversees strategy for the all-electric American car company he co-founded to design, engineer and manufacture affordable electric...