Elon Musk is the closest successor to the fame and vision that has so widely been attributed to the late Steve Jobs. He is, in other words, bringing sexy back to the world of Space and Automobile industries, along with quite a few others. What made him choose this path and what made him the person that he is today? Read on to find out. Elon Musk was born in South Africa and then moved to Canada to further his studies. From there, he moved to the United States of America to University of Pennsylvania to get degrees in business and physics. At the age of 24, he founded a startup called 'Zip2' which was later on bought by 'Compaq' for $307 million. Musk recieved $22 million for his 7 percent shares. After that he started working on 'X.com' with $10 million from his Zip2 payout. It was a payment gateway and an online financial services company which was later on merged with 'PayPal'. PayPal was then bought by eBay for $1.5 billion of which ...
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