Elon Musk
was born in 1971 in Pretoria South Africa.Being child he wanted to follow the American
dream.At 17 years old he left South Africa and moved to Canada.Elon enrolled at
Queen University in Kingston Ontario in 1989.
His first
entrepreneurial experience started in 1995 when he launched ‘’ Global Link Information
Network’’ after spent some time in Silicon Valley in entership renamed Zip 2.In February 1999 Compaq Computer offered 307 mil$ for Zip 2
and Musk got 22 mil $ for this deal.
Another
startup that he launched was Paypal
,eBay offered 1,5 billion $ and Musk got 250 mil $ .
Since he
was a child had a passion for rockets.Probably to most challenging project that
he is involving is Space X.Tom Mueller
was one of the first person that helped Musk and developing and creating
rockets.After many falling attemps on 22 of May 2012 Falcon 9 rocked off from Kennedy Space Center In Cape
Canaveral Florida rached to International
Space Station .Is first the first time on a private company dock at the ISS.
Space X
declared that would send unmanned mission to the Red Planet b y 2018 with human
mission still on schedule for 2025.
In the fall
of 2003 Musk meet Straubel come with the idea of an electric car.Straubel showed
Musk ‘’Tzero’’ which went from 0-60
miles/hour in 4,9 seconds and so
Tesla starting to take shape.Von
Holzhausen joined Tesla didn’t know that the company was a verge of collapse.In
may 2009 Tesla had been unveiled the Model S.Daimler acquired a 10 % stake in
Tesla for 50 millions $ and the Departament of Energy offered 465 million loan
.On 29 June 2010 Tesla went public it raised 226 million .
In
conclusion I recommend for everyone who
aspire to be an entrepreneur it’s very motivating and inspiring.Elon Musk is
not only a genius entrepreneur but also a good manager who has the quality
to recruit good people.From making
rockets to electric cars he is visionary that he is changing our world,hard
worker close to fanatism we can include him in the select group that changed
our world togheter with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.What admire most of him is
the syntagm that everything is possible if
you have passion and never never give up is the quality that fascinated
me.
