<main class="container main"> <div class="card-container col-lg-10 offset-1"> <div class="img-fluid"> </div> <div class="card"> <p class="card-text col-lg-8">Elon Musk</p> </div> </div> <div class="text col-lg-10 offset-1"> <blockquote>I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. <span class="cite">-Elon Musk</span></blockquote> <p class="biography">Born in South Africa in 1971, Elon Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers. He achieved more success by founding X.com in 1999, SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk made headlines in May 2012, when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station. He bolstered his portfolio with the purchase of SolarCity in 2016, and cemented his standing as a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration.</p> <p class="biography list">Here are some of the key inflection points that helped him to build his massive empire:</p> <ul class="bio-list"> <li class="bio-list-item">Elon was born in South Africa to an engineer father and model mother on June 28, 1971. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">Elon read 10 hours a day as a kid, and even read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">At age 12, Elon sold his first video game that he coded for $500. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">After being inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Elon decided that his new life mission would be to save humanity. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">Leaves Stanford PhD program after two days to help found Zip2, which he started with a $28,000 loan from his father.</li> <li class="bio-list-item">He later received proceeds of $22 million from the sale of Zip2 to Compaq, which he used to start X.com.</li> <li class="bio-list-item">X.com merges with another online bank (Confinity) to form Paypal.</li> <li class="bio-list-item">Elon gets ousted as CEO from Paypal while on his honeymoon, yet still invests more money in the company regardless.</li> <li class="bio-list-item">He discovers that space rockets are artificially overpriced, and starts SpaceX to build his own rockets.</li> <li class="bio-list-item">Elon gets $250 million from the sale of Paypal to Ebay. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">Meets Tesla founders Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard, and introduces them to JB Straubel. Elon invests in Tesla. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">After having three SpaceX rockets explode while approaching bankruptcy with Tesla, Elon takes action. He takes over as CEO of Tesla and raises an emergency fifth round of financing. Meanwhile, his fourth rocket launch with SpaceX succeeds and a $1.6B contract with NASA is signed. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">Tesla goes public at $17 per share (it trades for ~$250/share today) </li> <li class="bio-list-item">Elon announces reusable rockets that could make space flight 100x cheaper, and promises to also send humans to Mars by 2021-2031. </li> <li class="bio-list-item">Elon publishes the Hyperloop design, starts building the Gigafactory, unveils the Powerwall, and eventually lands a rocket on an ocean platform. </li> </ul> <p class="post">To find out more about this revolutionary entrepreneur, you can read about him on <a target="_blank" class="post-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk">Wikipedia</a>.</p> </div> </main> <footer> This is a project made for FreeCodeCamp by <a href="https://github.com/siberianLvolk" target="_blank">https://github.com/siberianLvolk</a> </footer>

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