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Elon Mosk is really a self made man because a self made man is somebody who has raised to succes and weath  without money or social position. [pic 1]

Elon musk was born in 1971, in Pretoria (South-Africa). His father : Errol Musk was an Anglo-South African engineer. His mother is Maye Haldeman. She was nutritionist and canadian model. In 1980 his parents separated and he chose to live with his father. His parents were “normal people” without social position or a lot of money, his family was not poor but this is not a famous or rich family.

In 1988 (he was 17) he studies at Pretoria Boys High School is finish and he wants to studies in The United States. He got the Canadian nationality. His father was disagree with his decision and stopped giving money to him.

In Canada he go to Queen’s University (Canada) He bought this school with odd jobs. He got his diploma in 1995. With scolarship he studies in University on Pensilvania and Stanford University.

In 1995 he founded Zip2 with colleagues and his brother: this is online content publishing software for buisness information. He sold a part of this entreprise in  1999 for 341 million, today he has 12% of this buisness.

In 1999 he founded an online bank: X.com, in the future X.com will become Paypal. In 2002 He sold Paypal to ebay  for 1,5 billion dollards. Today he has 11% of this buisness.

In 2002 Elon Musk thought the U.S spatial program is not embitious, he founded this third buisness SpaceX. SpaceX is know to created the first reusable rocket. In 2012 SpaceX refulled the ISS (International Space Station), In 2018 SpaceX launched the car of the CEO in the space (Elon Musk) and reactors came back to earth.

In 2008 he become the  CEO of Tesla.For specialists Tesla is the best electric car brand, Tesla’s car are very expansive brand because a car cost between 50 000 and 100 000$.

In 2012 he founded hyperloop, today this is a company who try to create a train moving at 1 200 km/h

In 2016 he founded Neuralink and Boring Company. Neuralink is a company whose goal is to create cereblal’s implant for heal cerebral dieases. Boring Company is to make roads underground the city.

Elon musk is a self made man, he started without money  and today he became the 8th richest man in the world by Forbes Magazine.

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