{"id":3307,"date":"2023-03-20T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:19:08","slug":"how-did-elon-musk-get-so-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/how-did-elon-musk-get-so-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"How did elon musk get so wealthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate who co-founded PayPal and Tesla Motors. He also founded SpaceX, and is now working on developing the Hyperloop. So how did this man become so wealthy?<\/p>\n

Musk was born in South Africa in 1971. He showed an early interest in computers and programming, and when he was just 12 years old, he created a video game called Blastar and sold it for $500. He moved to Canada at age 17 to attend Queen’s University, but transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later to study economics and physics.<\/p>\n

In 1995, Musk co-founded a web software company called Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The brothers sold Zip2 four years later to Compaq for $307 million. Musk co-founded PayPal in 1998, and it was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company. He also invested in Tesla Motors, an electric vehicle manufacturer, in 2004. Today, Tesla Motors is worth over $25 billion, and SpaceX is valued at over $12 billion.<\/p>\n