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Early Life and Education<\/h2>\n

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. Growing up in a single mother household, Elon attended his first computer programming class when he was just ten years old – at the time, he was already an avid reader, having read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica by the age of nine. At 17, he decided to pursue an undergraduate degree in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. After two years, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and completed a second bachelor’s degree in physics.<\/p>\n

By the time he was 24, he had already obtained two undergraduate degrees and was accepted into a graduate program in energy physics at Stanford University. However, his plans changed when the internet started to take off and he decided to take advantage of the booming technology industry. Musk then moved to California, where he launched his first business X.com, an online financial services and email payment company, in 1999.<\/p>\n

Business Ventures<\/h2>\n

Elon Musk is well known for his successful business ventures. His first focus on technology was X.com, which he sold to PayPal in 2000, earning him a reported US$165 million. After PayPal, Musk invested heavily in the aerospace technology company, SpaceX, which he founded in 2002. Since then, SpaceX has become one of the most successful aerospace companies in the world, and today Elon Musk is the CEO and CTO of the company.<\/p>\n

Musk also co-founded Tesla Motors, an electric car company, in 2003. Tesla has made huge strides in the domain of electric vehicles, and it is now one of the leading automobile companies in the world. Musk is now the CEO and Chief Product Architect at Tesla Motors.<\/p>\n

Philanthropy and Other Passions<\/h2>\n