What Is Elon Musk?
Elon Musk, a very famous engineer and wealthy businessman, is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc. (LaMonica); co-founder of Zip2; and founder of X.com, which merged with Confinity and took the name PayPal (Hardy 17).
Elon Musk was born in Tshwane, a city in the South Africa, to his father who was an engineer and his mother who was a model and dietitian. After getting a personal computer at the age of ten, he designed a science-fiction-inspired space game called Blastar that required 167 lines of instructions to run (Vance 23). Although this game was not as well-known as Overwatch, it was also an unbelievable success for a teenager. In spite of talent Musk showed, he also put up critical …show more content…
He introduced his plan and design to many salesmen, but they showed little interest on it. Elon Musk started one of his tough eras because of lacking investments. To prove himself and make his first dream come true, he borrowed some money from his dad and worked in his office all day and night. After one year, Zip2 became a famous company and offered services for many newspapers, such as New York Times, Knight Ridder and Hearst Corporation; consequently, Zip2 started getting more investments from other enterprises (Vance 70). Although Zip2 confronted with some problems such as losing money, it still became the first successful company of Elon …show more content…
Thank to an experience at the bank in the last decade of the twentieth century, Musk employed his knowledge about economy and internet to build up an internet bank and shared this idea to some investors. But there was a big problem about technology that Musk have to use: it was very difficult to build up a navigation of regulatory hell of creating an online bank for consumers (Vance 78). Musk worked for a long time to solve it. At the same time, some investments were gotten and sent by Elon Musk. After a few weeks, the company PayPal succeeded in appearing in market. However, PayPal was not as successful as Musk had thought. Because the original website of PayPal had some technological problems that caused some economic loss, some critics indicated that Musk did a very insensible choice and gave away money as fast as he could (Vance 85). However, after solving these technological problems, PayPal shocked everyone. Nobody could criticize Musk's decisions; instead, all people praised him a lot, and Musk also got lots of profits from PayPal. However, Musk did not insist in expanding fields of PayPal. He chose to sell PayPal to eBay, another famous company, and began his new career in other
Elon Musk was born in Tshwane, a city in the South Africa, to his father who was an engineer and his mother who was a model and dietitian. After getting a personal computer at the age of ten, he designed a science-fiction-inspired space game called Blastar that required 167 lines of instructions to run (Vance 23). Although this game was not as well-known as Overwatch, it was also an unbelievable success for a teenager. In spite of talent Musk showed, he also put up critical …show more content…
He introduced his plan and design to many salesmen, but they showed little interest on it. Elon Musk started one of his tough eras because of lacking investments. To prove himself and make his first dream come true, he borrowed some money from his dad and worked in his office all day and night. After one year, Zip2 became a famous company and offered services for many newspapers, such as New York Times, Knight Ridder and Hearst Corporation; consequently, Zip2 started getting more investments from other enterprises (Vance 70). Although Zip2 confronted with some problems such as losing money, it still became the first successful company of Elon …show more content…
Thank to an experience at the bank in the last decade of the twentieth century, Musk employed his knowledge about economy and internet to build up an internet bank and shared this idea to some investors. But there was a big problem about technology that Musk have to use: it was very difficult to build up a navigation of regulatory hell of creating an online bank for consumers (Vance 78). Musk worked for a long time to solve it. At the same time, some investments were gotten and sent by Elon Musk. After a few weeks, the company PayPal succeeded in appearing in market. However, PayPal was not as successful as Musk had thought. Because the original website of PayPal had some technological problems that caused some economic loss, some critics indicated that Musk did a very insensible choice and gave away money as fast as he could (Vance 85). However, after solving these technological problems, PayPal shocked everyone. Nobody could criticize Musk's decisions; instead, all people praised him a lot, and Musk also got lots of profits from PayPal. However, Musk did not insist in expanding fields of PayPal. He chose to sell PayPal to eBay, another famous company, and began his new career in other