Elon Musk

 Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a south African ,born as the eldest of three children,   in Pretoria at 1971 . His father turned into a South African engineer, his mom a Canadian version and nutritionist

After his dad and mom divorced in 1980, Musk lived in the main together along with his father. He could later dub his father "a horrible human being… nearly each evil aspect you can probable assume of, he has done.

“I had a horrible upbringing. I had a variety of adversity developing up. One aspect I fear approximately with my children is that they don’t face sufficient adversity,” Musk could later say.

Early Accomplishments

Technology have become an break out for Musk. At 10, he have become familiar with programming the use of a Commodore VIC-20, an early and comparatively less expensive domestic computer. Before long, Musk had turn out to be gifted sufficient to create Blastar—a online game withinside the fashion of Space Invaders. He bought the BASIC code for the sport to a PC mag for $500.

In one telling incident from his childhood, Musk and his brother, deliberate to open a online game arcade close to their college. Their dad and mom nixed the plan.

Bullied as a Child

Musk attended the private, English-speakme Waterkloof House Preparatory School—he began out a yr early—and later graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. A self-defined bookworm, he made few pals in the ones places.

“They were given my best (expletive) pal to entice me out of hiding so they may beat me up. And that (expletive) hurt,” Musk stated. “For a few cause, they determined that I turned into it, and that they have been going to head after me nonstop. That’s what made developing up difficult. For some of years, there has been no respite. You get chased round with the aid of using gangs at college who attempted to overcome the (expletive) out of me, after which I’d come domestic, and it'd simply be lousy there as well.

Musk's College Years

At age of seventeen, Musk moved to Canada. He could later reap Canadian citizenship thru his mom.

After moving  to Canada, Musk entered to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. It turned into there that he met Justine Wilson, an aspiring writer. They could marry and feature 5 sons together, twins and triplets, earlier than divorcing in 2008.

Entering the U.S.

After  years at Queen’s University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. He took on  majors, however his time there wasn’t all paintings and no play. With a fellow student, he sold a 10-bed room fraternity house, which they used as an advert hoc nightclub.

Musk graduated with a bachelor of technological know-how diploma in physics, similarly to a bachelor of arts in economics from the Wharton School. The  majors foreshadowed Musk’s career, however it turned into physics that left the private impression.

“(Physics is) an awesome framework for thinking,” he could say later. “Boil matters right all the way down to their essential truths and cause up from there.”

Notable Accomplishments

Musk turned into 24 years vintage whilst he moved to California to pursue a Ph.D. in implemented physics at Stanford University. But, with the Internet expansion and Silicon Valley exploding, Musk had entrepreneurial concepts which creating smart thoughts in his head. He throw away the Ph.D. application after simply  days.

X.com

In 1995, with $15,000 and his more youthful brother Kimbal at his side, Musk began out Zip2, an internet software program organisation that might assist newspapers broaden on-line metropolis guides.

In 1999, Zip2 turned into received with the aid of using Compaq Computer Corp. for $341 million. Musk used his Zip2 buyout cash to create X.com, a fintech assignment earlier than that time period turned into in huge circulation.

X.com merged with a cash switch corporation known as Confinity, and the ensuing organisation got here to be called PayPal. Peter Thiel ousted Musk as PayPal's CEO earlier than eBay (EBAY) sold the bills organisation for $1.five billion, however Musk nevertheless profited from the buyout thru his 11.7% PayPal stake. "My proceeds from PayPal after tax have been approximately $one hundred eighty million," Musk stated in a 2018 interview. "$a hundred million of that went into SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla and $10 million into SolarCity

 1st Marriage Life

Justine Musk, born Justine Wilson, married destiny billionaire Elon Musk in January 2000 after understanding every different for nearly a decade.

In 2002, the same yr Elon's organisation PayPal became received via way of means of eBay, the couple welcomed their first son collectively. Sadly, the little one handed away while he became 10 weeks antique from unexpected little one dying syndrome (SIDS). Justine and Elon welcomed 5 greater kids collectively over time earlier than setting apart in 2008.

 Elon has due to the fact that long past directly to marry British actress Talulah Riley twice, date actress Amber Heard and welcome  kids with singer Grimes.

Though Justine and Elon are now not collectively, they nonetheless keep shared custody in their sons. Today, the Canadian-born myth creator leads a personal lifestyles together along with her kids no matter her very public ex, who she first met whilst they had been each attending university in Canada.

Elon musk's Life with Talulah Riley

Talulah Riley actress married the 50-yr-vintage billionaire in 2010 however they divorced in 2012, most effective to wed agin the subsequent yr and aleven though their courting ended for properly in 2016, the pair have remained very close.

Talulah said: “I love Elon but , now no longer always in an intense, romantic manner however in a broad ‘he’s my family’ manner …

“Elon and I each are wildly romantic human beings withinside the broadest feel of the word. Hence he’s constructing rocket ships to different planets, etcetera. And I’m extra romantic in a Victorian, communing-with-nature kind of manner, however that meets in phrases of heady romance.”

Buying Twitter

update on 5/10/2022

when Musk was set to do his deposition that was set for the end of this week. So what this indicates to me is that Musk really didn't think he had a chance in court. The other thing I would point out is that this comes on the heels of the whistleblower coming out with plenty of criticisms of Twitter, but not criticisms that actually supported Musk in his attempt to get out of this deal. So the whistleblowers criticisms, the fact that they did not support Musk's issues around Twitter's bots were problematic. Also just want to go back to some of those redacted those text messages that we read that were part of the discovery process and all of those text messages so revealing, but also indicated that Musk really had had a sense of the fact that there were bots on the on the platform and that he knew he was going to have to clean them up, which to me indicated that the the entry of that as evidence into this trial could hurt Musk and his attempt to get out of this deal. So all of these things come right before this announcement today. And the fact that he probably had a good sense that he wasn't going to win. And that's why we're getting this news now in terms of what this means for Twitter, this whole situation with Musk has been a massive distraction for Twitter at a time when they face many challenges. This has been challenging for Twitter in terms of employee morale, in terms of retention, keeping employees focused when we're dealing with hybrid work environments and all of these different issues. So challenges at a time when when Twitter is already dealing with tough, say, macro environment, macro environment around advertising. So to resolve this would be a huge weight off of Twitter's back and really enable Twitter to focus on growing ad revenue, delivering new ad formats. And then of course, the big question is, once Musk takes over, what kind of changes is he going to make to make Twitter more appealing to a broader range array of people? And that is the big unknown about what he actually has in plan has planned for the company. All right. Now, we have to let you go. I know you have calls to make and other threads on this to follow, but question When Elon Musk takes over, what kind of workforce is he taking over? I know originally when this happened and there was a a town hall meeting and a lot of employees had questions and even concerns about being part of a company that Elon Musk controlled privately. Well, yes. And there are also questions about whether Elon Musk was going to be shifting focus away from Twitter being an ad supported service and whether that could be problematic. I think from what I understand from sources is Musk definitely understands that Twitter needs to maintain the ad business, but as it tries to diversify its revenue streams and grow at other parts of the business, he does need to maintain that core business. I mean, Twitter is among one of many companies in Silicon Valley that has halted its its employee growth during these macroeconomic pressures. But I think it's an employee base that has a lot of questions. And I would expect Musk to want to talk to those employees sooner rather than later to make sure more of them don't head for the door. Twitter shares up almost 13%. Tesla shares interesting, up a percent and a half. Just a short time ago, they were up two and a half percent.