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Elon Musk designed and sold a video game to a magazine when he was 12 years old. 'Blastar,' a space battle game, was sold for $500 to PC and Office Technology magazine. Musk also worked at Rocket Science, a gaming start-up.
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Musk's first commercial effort was developing Zip2, a company that provided newspapers with maps and business directories and was eventually sold to Compaq for $307 million.
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Paypal, formerly X.com, was the source of Musk's fortune. Paypal was founded in 1999 and was later purchased by eBay for $1.5 billion, with $165 million in stock being paid to Musk.
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Musk established Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, in 2002. Musk believed that humanity's survival hinged on its potential to evolve into a multi-planetary species, but that present rocket launch technologies were prohibitively expensive. With the launch of the Falcon 1 in 2006, the Falcon 9 in 2010, and the Falcon Heavy in 2018, he could do this.
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The Falcon Heavy could transport 53,000 kg into orbit, twice as much as its nearest competitor for about a third of the price.
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Musk had to put his own money into developing SpaceX rockets due to a lack of funding. The business currently has a $1.6 billion NASA contract for resupply trips and, eventually, ferrying people to and from the International Space Station.
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Musk has managed to lower the cost of traveling to the space station by up to 90% thanks to advancements at SpaceX. What was once a $1 billion endeavour is now only $60 million.
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Musk went on to become a key investor in Tesla Motors, which is now known as Tesla. Tesla debuted the Roadster, a car with futuristic aesthetics and a battery with a range of 394 km on a single charge, to a market that was mostly disinterested in electric automobiles at the time.
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Both of Musk's accomplishments, SpaceX and Tesla, were on the verge of failing. While the first three rockets were unable to launch, the fourth did, and the Roadster had severe manufacturing issues.
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Musk was awarded the FAI Gold Space Medal in 2010 for designing the first privately developed rocket to achieve orbit by the Federation Aronautique Internationale.
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Musk unveiled the Hyperloop in 2018, a transportation system that could hypothetically carry passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 90 minutes.
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Musk has given one of his boys Professor Xavier of the X-Men-inspired Xavier, which he admitted.
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Musk is known as a thrillionaire, a high-tech entrepreneur who wants to make science fiction a reality.
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Musk also owns Wet Nellie, a James Bond custom automobile. The Wet Nellie is a custom-built Lotus Espirit submarine automobile in the film The Spy Who Loved Me.
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Musk also appeared in an episode of The Simpsons called "The Musk Who Fell to Earth."
So, these are some interesting facts about Elon Musk that I am sure you guys have enjoyed reading.
Musk was named to Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2010, 2013, and 2018. He was also named a fellow of the Royal Society in 2018. Other honors include the Order of the Direkgunabhorn, which he got for his services to the Tham Luang cave rescue.
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