198 1 year, 10-year-old Musk had his first computer and learned software programming.
1983, 12 years old, he successfully designed a game called "Blastar" and offered 500 dollars for this commercial software.
1988, 17 years old, he went to Canada, and his ultimate dream was America.
1992, he entered the University of Pennsylvania on a scholarship. In 200 1 year, he planned a project called "Mars Oasis", and planned to land this small experimental greenhouse on Mars, which contained crops growing in Martian soil. However, when he found that the launch cost was much higher than the R&D and engineering cost of the project, he suspended the project and wanted to become a rocket expert.
One day in June 5438 +2002 10, Musk was 30 years old. Musk University studied physics, but he is not a rocket expert. But in the face of the news that Paypal is about to go public, he has a basic principle of rocket propulsion. Later, Paypal didn't go public.
In June 2002, Yi Bei acquired PayPal with10.50 billion shares, of which Musk owned110.7% shares, about 328 million US dollars. Four months before that, he founded Space Exploration Technology Company to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launch. He immediately invested more than $65,438 billion in space exploration technology company. His ambition is to reduce the launch cost to110 of the commercial space launch market, and he plans to develop the world's largest rocket for interstellar migration in the future.
In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, a company founded by martin eberhard, and served as the company's chairman. Tesla is a company that manufactures high-end electric sports cars. Musk's investment in it is obviously based on his love for electric vehicles and his optimism about this market. Because of management problems and the stumbling of the production process of the first sports car, Musk invested all his money in research and development.
In 2005, 34-year-old Musk was worth more than $300 million. When he was less than 40 years old, the three ideals of Internet, clean energy and space had been realized.
In 2008, the financial crisis broke out, and Musk also ushered in a low point in his life. His rocket failed three times, and tens of millions of dollars of investment turned into a fireball after the explosion. Tesla is also on the verge of bankruptcy because of high research and development costs.
On June 20 10, Tesla went public on Nasdaq, and successfully completed the IPO, with a net raised capital of about 65438+84 million USD. A few days before listing, The New York Times reported that Musk was on the verge of bankruptcy. After the listing, Musk earned $630 million on the books. Tesla became the first American automobile manufacturer listed since Ford 1956 IPO, and the only independent manufacturer of pure electric vehicles listed in the United States. Space exploration technology company has been profitable since 2007. Tesla obtained a low-interest loan of $465 million from the US Department of Energy, and sold several electric sports cars at a price of $654.38 million+each, becoming a battery supplier of Mercedes-Benz Smart cars. Both Toyota and Mercedes-Benz have invested in Tesla, but his book wealth is still insufficient.
20 10, 10 On February 8, the Falcon 9 rocket developed by Musk's space exploration technology company Space Exploration Technology Company successfully sent the "Dragon Spacecraft" into Earth orbit. This is the first time in the history of the world that it was launched into space by a private enterprise and returned smoothly. The whole space industry was shocked. According to NASA's plan, after all American space shuttles are retired in 201KLOC-0/year, they will rely on private companies such as Space Exploration Technologies to deliver materials to the International Space Station.
20 1 1 Elon Musk is frank, betting all his future on rockets and electric cars is very risky. However, he changed the subject, saying that less investment is the biggest risk, because the hope of success is zero.
With his own capital accumulation, Musk founded Space Exploration Technology Company and Solar City, and served as their CEO.