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5 Milestones in the History of Elon Musk Life

1. Childhood and starting programming

He was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, and at 12 he taught himself to program and sell a game called Blastar for US $500.

📖 Reference source: Biography.com

2.Establish Zip2 - First Step in the Business World

After moving to America, Musk and his brother founded a software company called Zip2 to help print media navigate online. Later, in 1999, the company was sold to Compaq worth more than $300 million.

📖 Reference source: Investopedia

3.PayPal from X.com

He founded X.com in 1999, which later merged with Confinity Company, becoming PayPal - when in 2002 eBay bought PayPal, continuing to push its financial technology dream.

📖 Reference source: Wikipedia

4.SpaceX successfully launches a reused rocket

SpaceX was founded in 2002 with the goal of reducing the cost of space travel - in 2008, the Falcon 1 project was able to successfully send satellites into orbit; importantly, it could resume reuse.

📖 Reference Source: NM Space Museum

5.Twitter acquisition / convert to X

He acquired Twitter in 2022 for around $44 billion, and changed several policies including changing the name to X to make it an "all things platform."

📖 Reference source: Wikipedia - Twitter under Elon Musk

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"Musk's life is proof that the smallest beginning could lead to a new universe if our hearts don't stop dreaming."