The great success story of Elon Musk



This story is about a visionary engineer and a great entrepreneur Elon Musk who is the CEO of electric car company Tesla. He is also the founder of aerospace manufacturing company SPACEX.
           The great person opened his eyes   in Pretoria, South Africa in 28 June 1971.he learned a lot from his engineer father and his dietitian mother.
           He was interested a lot in reading books. At the age of 10, he got his first computer and at the age of 12, he had learned computer programming coding. He developed the first BLASTER game when he was just 12 years old, and he sold it to a company in $500.
          After completing his education, In 1995,Elon teamed up with his brother and created a company named it ZIP2. A company COMPAQ acquired the ZIP2 in $340 millions.


          With two business partners, Musk launched X.com. It was an online financial servicing company. In 2002, this company was merged with an American company CONFINITY. This company had a great financial service of PAYPAL. In 2001, Elon Musk was the CEO of this company. After a short period, this company was bought by ebey in $1.5 billions. Elon Musk was the greatest share holder in this company, so he was given the amount of $180 millions.


          In 2004, Elon Musk teamed up with two engineers and made a company named Tesla. This company was famous in making electric cars. When they made first electric car, it was too expensive and no one bought it. Then they made a second electric car, and they faced failure again this time. Then they made third electric car when they were succeeded in making it.


         After this, Musk made company of SPACEX. This company is making rockets now, and is famous in making cheaper rockets. Before making a successful rocket, he made severally rockets, and he faced failure.


         At this time, Elon Musk is the successful person, and he is second richest person of the world. His total net worth is 153.3 Billion Dollars.
        We learn from his life that we should continue our struggle and we should never lose our hope so that we can achieve our goal.We learn a lot of lessons from the story of the great iron man Elon musk.