A Stand Out
Among
Entrepreneurs
VIPIL VIJAY
S4 ECE
Roll No: 55
The Real Life
Tony Stark
"When something is important enough, you do
it even if the odds are not in your favor."
Elon Musk
• Multi-talented
• Business Magnate
• Engineer
• Inventor
• Investor
• Man of Vision
• #46th Richest
person in the “Persistence is very important. You should
world by not give up unless you are forced to give
Forbes(2018 up."
August)
How it all started…
• Full name: Elon Reeve Musk
• Born in Pretoria,Transvaal,South Africa on June 28, 1971
• Eldest son of Maye Musk and Errol Musk
• He has a brother, Kimbal and sister, Tosca
• Self-taught computer programmer at the age of 10
• Sold a video game made by him for $500 at the age of 12
"The first step is to establish that something is
possible; then probability will occur."
Elon Musk Family
Tosca Musk(Sister)
Kimbal Musk(Brother)
Maye Musk(Mother) Errol Musk(Father)
Justine Musk(Spouse(Ex.)) Talulah Riley(Spouse) Musk’s Children
• Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School and Bryanston High
School before graduating from Pretoria Boys High School.
• He was accepted into Queen's University in Kingston at the age of 19.
• Bachelor of Science in Physics at the age of 24 from University of
Pennsylvania.
• Enrolled for PhD. in Stanford University but left after attending for 2 days to
pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet,
renewable energy and outer space.
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
Zip2
• A web software company started in 1995.
• The initial name was Global Link Information Network which was
changed to Zip2
• Investment of US$28,000
• The company developed and marketed an Internet "city guide" for
the newspaper publishing industry. Musk obtained contracts
with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune
• Compaq acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million
in stock options in 1999
“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
X.Com & PayPal
• Co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment
company.
• Merged with Confinity(which had PayPal service) in 2002.
• The merged company focused on the PayPal service and renamed
the company as PayPal.
• PayPal was made public in the year 2002.
• PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which
US$165 million was given to Musk.
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you
are not innovating enough.”
PayPal CEO Peter Thiel and founder Elon
Musk
PayPal's corporate headquarters in San Jose,
California
SpaceX
• Musk conceptualized “Mars Oasis” in 2001
• Went to Russia to buy refurbished ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic
missile)
• Musk was seen as a novice & was rejected
• Started a company that could build the affordable rockets he needed
• US$100 million of his early fortune was invested to form SpaceX in
2002
Goals
• Reduce the cost of human spaceflight by a factor of 10
• In a 2011 interview, he said he hopes to send humans to
Mars' surface within 10–20 years
• He wishes to establish a Mars colony by 2040, with a population
of 80,000
Tesla Motors
• Incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning
• Musk led the Series A round of investment in February 2004, joining
Tesla's Board of Directors as its Chairman
• Assumed leadership of the company as CEO and product architect after
the 2008 financial crisis
• Musk became the highest paid CEO in the world, as of 2014
• Reduced annual salary to one dollar
Tesla Supercharger points.
Tesla Power Stations Till 2014
Tesla Power Stations Till 2016
SolarCity
• Second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States
• Musk provided concept & financial capital in 2006
• Underlying motivation for funding both SolarCity and Tesla is to help
combat global warming
• Musk committed to building a SolarCity advanced production facility in
2014
HYPERLOOP
Musk unveiled a concept for a high-speed transportation system incorporating
reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion
driven by linear induction motors and air compressors
Musk assigned a dozen engineers from Tesla and SpaceX who worked for nine
months, establishing the conceptual foundations and creating the designs for
the transportation system
Musk announced a design competition for students and others to build
Hyperloop pods to operate on a SpaceX-sponsored mile-long track in a 2015–
2017 Hyperloop pod competition
Hyperloop One, a company unaffiliated with Musk, had announced that it had
done its first successful test run on its DevLoop track in Nevada on 2017
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