Entrepreneur's Journey

Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman. His early interest in reading philosophy, science fiction, and fantasy novels is reflected in his sense of idealism and concern with human progress. He seeks to work in the areas he has identified as crucial to our future, specifically the Internet, the transition to renewable energy sources, and space colonization.

Elon enrolled at Stanford for a Ph.D. but dropped out after two days to pursue a business career. He started off with Zip2, which Compaq acquired. He then founded X.com, which merged with Confinity to form Paypal and was eventually purchased by eBay for $1.5 billion. In 2002, he founded SpaceX.  In 2004, he joined Tesla as its product architect before eventually rising to become CEO in 2008. In 2006, he supported the creation of Solar City, a-Solar Energy Services Company. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a non-profit research company that aims to promote friendly AI. In 2016, he founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain-computer interfaces. In the same year, he also founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel Construction Company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.