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Elon Musk - Timeline
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⟶ Updated 20 Oct 2017 ⟶
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Born to engineer father and model mother
Reads aproxamatly seven hours per day
Runs out of books to read at local library and reads entire Encyclopaedia Britannica
His parents divorce, goes to live with his father
Gets bullied at school, gets pushed down a staircase
Creates video ‘Blaster’ and sells it for $500
Decides to change humanity as his life mission
Moves to Canada
Starts university in Ontario
Does well in banking but gets in trouble for using the coffee machine of senior bosses
Transfers to UPenn University majoring in physics and economics
Achieves economics degree and later physics
Starts Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk
Raises first investment money of $3 million
Starts X.com with his own money, an online bank
Merges X.com with Cofinity to form PayPal
Marries Justine Musk
Fired from being CEO of PayPal while on honeymoon
Moves to Los Angeles to be closer to space industry
Goes to Russia to buy a rocket to send to Mars
Reads books to learn how to build rockets after reilizing how expensive they are to buy
First son is born, dies ten weeks later from SIDS
Starts SpaceX with his own money to build rockets
Sells PayPal and earns $250 million
Meets Tesla founders who pitch electric car idea (his vision)
Invests in Tesla
Twin sons are born
First rocket launches and explodes
Becomes first investor in SolarCity (cousin’s company)
Triplets sons are born
Second launch fails
Model S is unveiled; the first Tesla car
Divorces Justine Musk
Third launch fails
SpaceX and Tesla are both running out of money
Fourth launch succeeds
Raises more money for Tesla hours before going bankrupt
First Model S customers receive their car
Tesla gets listed on the market
Married Talulah Riley
Promises to send humans to Mars by 2021-2031
Announces he is using reusable rockets to make space flight over 100 times cheaper
Unveils the Tesla Model X
Divorces Talulah Riley
Sells Zip2 for $22 million
Sells computers out of University room
Unveils and releases the supercharger to the public
Re-marries Talulah Riley
Publishes design of Hyperloop One
First customers get their Model X
Rocket launch fails (after 19 successful launches)
Rocket landing succeeds - first reusable rocket
Unveils Tesla Model 3 ($35,000)
Richard Branson invests in Hyperloop
