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10 Things You Didn't Know About Elon Musk

2019-01-28 1 Dailymotion

Elon Reeve Musk born June 28, 1971 is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer<br /><br />He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX<br /> co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.<br />co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; and<br /> co-founder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked <br />21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.<br /> As of October 2018, he has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed<br /> by Forbes as the 54th-richest person in the world.<br /><br /> so lets discuss fun facts about elon musk<br /><br /> This man, Elon Musk had gone through a lot of failure. Unlike a glass, broken when fell down, he bounces back every time<br /> like a rubber ball. Though, Elon Musk’s inventions and business shone many futuristic views, he started showing his talents in his young age itself.<br /><br /> Blastar - A Video Game: Elon Musk created a video game at the young age of 12. It was a basic computer game called “Blastar,” <br /> similar to the popular game Space Invaders. He sold the rights to the game for $500. It can still be found online today.<br /><br /> Hyperloop Trains: Frustrated with traffic on the highway, Musk conceptualized and patented a technology called Hyperloop. <br />Hyperloop is basically a pod-like vehicle that travels through a tube. Allegedly, the Hyperloop will take passengers at a whopping<br /> speed of 1,200 km/h. Although it hasn’t been created, Musk has created an open-sourced platform to encourage others to develop the idea<br /><br /><br /><br /> In IRON MAN - 2: Director, Jon Faverau, admitted that his iron man’s version was inspired by Elon Musk personalities.<br /> Also, he acted in Iron Man - 2 and some of his movies was filmed at Space-x Headquaters.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Workaholic: Elon Musk is a workaholic by his own admission. Between all of his companies, <br />Musk works between 80-100 hours a week. His 18-hour day doesn’t even include a lunch break.<br /> He eats his lunch every day while answering emails or taking meetings<br /><br /><br /> A submarine car: The 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me featured a custom submarine in the shape <br />of a Lotus car. This vehicle is called the Wet Nellie. In 2013 Musk purchased the Wet Nellie for almost 1 Million<br /> dollars. He plans to use Tesla Motors technology to make the submarine-car functional!<br /><br /> Model - S: The Model S is an amazing car designed by Musk’s car company, Tesla Motors. It is fast, sleek, <br />and SAFE. In fact, the Model S is the safest car ever made. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration <br />awarded the Model S a safety score of 5.4 out of 5<br /><br /><br /><br />A Smarty Dropout: For a college drop-out, Musk has done pretty well for himself. In 1995 Musk dropped out<br /> of the PhD program at Standford after studying for just two days. One year later Musk sold his first company,<br /> Zip2. He pulled in a cool profit of 22 million dollars from that sale<br /><br /><br /> A Starwars Fan: Musk’s SpaceX created a series of reusable space rockets called the Falcon series.<br /> A fan of StarWars, Musk named these rockets after the Mil

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