Elon Musk was
born in South
Africa
Began to learn
computer
programming on
his own
Sold the code of
his game Blastar
for $500
Entered Queen's
University in
Kingston, Ontario
Transferred to the
University of
Pennsylvania
Received
bachelor's degrees
in physics and
economics
Started a Ph.D. at
Stanford (dropped
out in 2 days
Founded Zip2 with
his brother
Sold Zip2 to
Compaq for $307M
Co-founded X.com
Merged X.com with
Confinity to form
PayPal
Started
conceptualizing
Mars Oasis
Founded SpaceX &
became its CEO
Received $175.8M
from PayPal's sale
to eBay for $1.5B
Invested $6.5M in
Tesla and joined its
board as chairman
SpaceX started to
get NASA contracts
Became CEO at
Tesla
Tesla's first IPO
Co-founded OpenAI
Co-founded
Neuralink
Resigned his board
seat at OpenAI
Started selling his
Tesla stock (10%
for $16.4B by year
end)
Made an offer to
buy Twitter
Withdrew his $44B
bid to buy Twitter
Childhood and Education
Entrepreneur Journey
Making of Tycoon
Rise of Tycoon
1980
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2000
2010
2020
2030
Timeline of Elon Musk
Rise of Tycoon
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