Aiming to reduce global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption. Planning to reduce the risk of human extinction by making life multi-planetary and setting up a human colony on mars.

Skills:

Thinking through first principles. Marketing. Micro management. Goal oriented. Resiliency. Future focused. Leadership. Creativity. Time management. Persistence. Turning ideas into companies. Long term thinking.

Interests:

Physics. Sustainability. Philanthropy. Alternate Energy. Space Engineering. Reading. Video games. Twitter. Extraterrestrial life. Artificial Intelligence.

Accomplishments:

Top 5 richest people in the world - Forbes. 10 worlds most powerful people - Forbes. Business person of the year - Fortune magazine (2013). FAI Gold Space Medal (2010).

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Projects

Hyperloop

Founder

August 2013 to

"Hyperloop," an invention that would foster commuting between major cities while severely cutting travel time. Ideally resistant to weather and powered by renewable energy, the Hyperloop would propel riders in pods through a network of low-pressure tubes at speeds reaching more than 700 mph.

SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

AI and Neuralink

Founder

October 2015 to Present

I pursued an interest in artificial intelligence, becoming co-chair of the nonprofit OpenAI. The research company launched in late 2015 with the stated mission of advancing digital intelligence to benefit humanity.

https://neuralink.com/

Flamethrower

January 2018 to March 2018

We also reportedly found a market for The Boring Company's flamethrowers. After announcing they were going on sale for $500 apiece in late January 2018, he claimed to have sold 10,000 of them within a day.

The Boring Company

https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower

Experience

Zip2 Corporation

Founder

January 1995 to February 1999

Launched my first company, Zip2 Corporation, in 1995 with my brother, Kimbal Musk. An online city guide, Zip2 was soon providing content for the new websites of both The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, a division of Compaq Computer Corporation bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options.

Self-employed

https://web.archive.org/web/19990202180446/http://www.zip2.com:80/

PayPal

Founder and CEO

November 1999 to October 2000

In 1999, Me and Kimbal Musk used our money from the sale of Zip2 to found X.com, an online financial services/payments company. An X.com acquisition the following year led to the creation of PayPal as it is known today.

Self-employed

https://www.paypal.com

SpaceX

Founder and CEO

May 2002 to Present

I founded my third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel. By 2008, SpaceX was well established, and NASA awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the International Space Station—with plans for astronaut transport in the future—in a move to replace NASA’

Self-employed

https://www.spacex.com

Tesla Motors

Founder and CEO

July 2003 to Present

I am the co-founder, CEO and product architect at Tesla Motors, a company formed in 2003 that is dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars as well as battery products and solar roofs. Musk oversees all product development, engineering and design of the com

Self-employed

htttps://tesla.com

SolarCity

Founder

June 2006 to Present

In August 2016, in my continuing effort to promote and advance sustainable energy and products for a wider consumer base, a $2.6 billion dollar deal was solidified to combine his electric car and solar energy companies. Mu Tesla Motors Inc. announced an all-stock deal purchase of SolarCity Corp., a company Musk had helped his cousins start in 2006.

Self-employed

https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels

The Boring Company

Founder

December 2016 to Present

In January 2017, we launched The Boring Company, a company devoted to boring and building tunnels in order to reduce street traffic. We began with a test dig on the SpaceX property in Los Angeles.

Self-employed

https://www.boringcompany.com/

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics

June 1990 to July 1994

University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Physics

July 1994 to August 1997

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