12 Interesting facts about Elon Musk

Nowadays, the internet and new media is covered with the name of Elon Musk.He is an inverter, Engineer & businessman. He is very much famous for his crazy ideas and thinking.He is now the richest man in the world. After Jeff Bezos, the CEO of e-commerce giant AMAZON, Elon Musk is the richest man in the world today. His total net worth is $185 billion. As per the business analysts, after the election in the United States of America, Biden’s message to increase the green energy revolution will help TESLA to grow multifolds.

Here are 12 interesting facts about Elon Musk.

1. The super hit hollywood movie starring Robert Downey Jr, IRON MAN is actually on Elon Mask.as confirmed by the director. Even Elon has played a cameo role in Iron Man-2 also & a little bigger role in an episode of the Big Bang Theory “The Platonic Permutation”.

2. Elon is a very big fan of the Star Wars series and his falcon rockets are named after the movie franchise’s Millennium Falcon.

3. He is also a big fan of comics, especially Marvel’s X-Men. The automated robots in the TESLA factory are named after the X-Men characters. These include Xavier, Iceman, Wolverine, Volcan, Storm etc.Even one of his son’s names is Xavier , after the character professor X.

4. Elon Musk is South African by birth. He moved to Canada and the United States for college and became an American citizen in 2002 at the age of 31.

5. He has been married Thrice and has FIVE children (one set of Twin & one set of Triplet). All his children go to a private school he has set up in California. The Name of the school is Ad-Astra (the Latin meaning is “To the Stars”.

6. At the age of 12, Elon created a computer game named “Blaster” and later sold it to a magazine for $500.

7. Elon dropped out from his PhD at Stanford University after attending it in just TWO days to pursue his dream to be an entrepreneur.Then he set up his FIRST company Zip2, a provider of Maps & directories for online newspapers. In 1999 he sold the company for $22 million and thus became a millionaire at the age of 28.

8. In spite of a personal net worth of over $20 billion, his annual salary for Tesla Motors is just $1. It’s interesting to know that this same policy is there in Steve Jobs Apple also.

10. In 2008 when SpaceX was just a little bit away from bankruptcy, a $1.6 billion contract from NASA saved it.

11. Elon thrusts on Team work in such a way that he personally interviews every new hire in SpaceX and one of the things he looks for in the candidate is how easy it will be to work with them. According to him, it is one of the most important things in creating a strong TEAM who support themselves & succeed.

12. Elon Musk, though is the CEO of Tesla Motors, is not the founder of the company. TESLA was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard. He would become the CEO in 2008.after a change in top management.

13. After TESLA, SpaceX, Hyperloop and the Boring Company, Musk is now working on vertical take off and landing supersonic electric jet aircraft known as the Musk electric jet.