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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and self-made billionaire who has founded multiple successful companies like PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla. He was born in South Africa and moved to Canada as a teenager before studying economics and physics in college. Musk dropped out of a PhD program at Stanford to start his first company Zip2, which he sold for $307 million and used the profits to found X.com which later became PayPal. SpaceX was Musk's next venture focused on space exploration and rocket technology. While leading SpaceX, he also served as CEO of Tesla which produced the first long-range battery-electric vehicle. Musk continues to invest heavily in innovative technologies focused on transportation, energy,

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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and self-made billionaire who has founded multiple successful companies like PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla. He was born in South Africa and moved to Canada as a teenager before studying economics and physics in college. Musk dropped out of a PhD program at Stanford to start his first company Zip2, which he sold for $307 million and used the profits to found X.com which later became PayPal. SpaceX was Musk's next venture focused on space exploration and rocket technology. While leading SpaceX, he also served as CEO of Tesla which produced the first long-range battery-electric vehicle. Musk continues to invest heavily in innovative technologies focused on transportation, energy,

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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and self-made billionaire who has founded multiple successful companies like PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla. He was born in South Africa and moved to Canada as a teenager before studying economics and physics in college. Musk dropped out of a PhD program at Stanford to start his first company Zip2, which he sold for $307 million and used the profits to found X.com which later became PayPal. SpaceX was Musk's next venture focused on space exploration and rocket technology. While leading SpaceX, he also served as CEO of Tesla which produced the first long-range battery-electric vehicle. Musk continues to invest heavily in innovative technologies focused on transportation, energy,

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    Elon Musk

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    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and self-made billionaire who has founded multiple successful companies like PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla. He was born in South Africa and moved to Canada as a teenager before studying economics and physics in college. Musk dropped out of a PhD program at Stanford to start his first company Zip2, which he sold for $307 million and used the profits to found X.com which later became PayPal. SpaceX was Musk's next venture focused on space exploration and rocket technology. While leading SpaceX, he also served as CEO of Tesla which produced the first long-range battery-electric vehicle. Musk continues to invest heavily in innovative technologies focused on transportation, energy,

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    Elon Musk

    Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and self-made billionaire who uses his wealth to explore the future of
    technology. Over the years, Musk has made several predictions about our future on earth and in space.
    He believes that steering wheels will soon become obsolete and artificial intelligence (AI) will be human’s
    greatest threat.

    Elon Musk was born in South Africa on June 8, 1971. His father is South African and his mother is Canadian.
    Musk was fascinated by technology from an early age. At 12 years old, he coded his own video game and
    sold it for $500. Five years later, he moved to Canada to avoid mandatory military service.

    Musk began his undergraduate studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He later transferred to
    the University of Pennsylvania and earned degrees in economics and physics. He was accepted into
    Stanford University to do a PhD but dropped out after two days to start his own company.

    Musk’s first profitable enterprise was Zip2, an online city guide software, which he co-created with his
    brother Kimbal. Musk sold the company for 307 million dollars and used his profits to start X.com, the
    electronic payment service that later became PayPal. When eBay bought PayPal in 2002 for 1.5 billion
    dollars, Musk owned 11% of the shares.

    Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) was Elon Musk’s next big venture. Musk’s fascination with
    transportation and the potential for space colonization inspired him to read books on how to build rockets.
    In 2012, SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule became the first commercial spacecraft to dock on the International
    Space Station. Since venture capitalists are often hesitant to invest in space technology, Musk used all of
    his own money and resources to finance his rockets.

    While overseeing his aerospace company, Musk also ran Tesla Motors, an electric car company. In 2006,
    Tesla made history when it released its Roadster, an electric car that could travel 245 miles (394 km) on a
    single charge. In 2018, SpaceX made headlines when it successfully sent Musk’s own personal Roadster
    into orbit on his latest reusable rocket, Falcon Heavy.

    Exploration and innovation are costly endeavors, and despite his accomplishments, Musk’s net worth
    dropped 17% in a single month in 2018 and Tesla Inc. neared bankruptcy. Only time will tell what the future
    holds for this world-famous visionary who believes that today’s failure is tomorrow’s success.

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