BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK

PART - 1

By

SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI

B.Sc (Silver Medalist)

M.Sc (Applied Physics)

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WHAT WE WILL STUDY?

• CHILDHOOD

• AN ENTREPRENEUR

• SPACE X

• FUTURE TECHNOLOGY AND A.INTELLIGENCE

CHILDHOOD

• Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal,

South Africa, the son of Maye Musk , a model and dietician

and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer,

pilot, and sailor.

• He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a

younger sister, Tosca (born 1974).He lived with his father

after parents split in 1980 and relations were bitter.

• During his childhood he was an avid reader. At age 10, he

developed an interest in computing with the Commodore

VIC-20. He taught himself computer programming at the age

of 12.

• Musk was a very quite child and was bullied in his childhood.

Musk attended the English-speaking Waterkloof House

Preparatory School, and later graduated from Pretoria Boys

High School. The years were lonely and brutal, from his

descriptions.

• At the age 17, in 1989, Elon Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s

University and avoid mandatory service in the South African military. He

left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of

Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics

and stayed for a second bachelor’s degree in physics.

• It was there that he met Justine Wilson, an aspiring writer. They would

marry and have five sons together, twins and triplets, before divorcing in

2008.

• In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com named as paypal later, an online

financial services and e-mail payment company. It soon became the

online-payment system of choice, with a few thousand users multiplying

to more than 1 million in a few months.

EXTRAORDINARY

ROAD TO SUCCESS

• In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by

eBay for $1.5 billion in stock. Before the

sale, Musk owned 11 percent of PayPal

stock.

• Musk had begun to dream up a miniature

experimental greenhouse that he could

land on Mars. The greenhouse, which he

called "Mars Oasis," would contain crops

and would, he hoped, rekindle faded

public interest in space exploration.

• Musk founded his third company, Space

Exploration Technologies Corporation, or

SpaceX, in 2002 with the intention of

building spacecraft for commercial space

travel

• With US$100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration

Technologies, or SpaceX, in May 2002. Musk is chief executive officer

(CEO) and chief technology officer (CTO) of the Hawthorne, California-

based company.

• SpaceX develops and manufactures space launch vehicles with a focus

on advancing the state of rocket technology. The company's first two

launch vehicles are the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets and its first

spacecraft is the Dragon.

• In 2006, SpaceX was awarded a contract from NASA to continue the

development and test of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon

spacecraft in order to transport cargo to the International Space Station.

SPACE X

• In early 2012, approximately two-thirds of the company were owned by its

founder and his 70 million shares were then estimated to be worth $875

million on private markets.

• In January 2015, SpaceX raised $1 billion in funding from Google and

Fidelity, in exchange for 8.333% of the company, establishing the

company valuation at approximately $12 billion.

• SpaceX currently operates three orbital launch sites, at Cape Canaveral,

Vandenberg Air Force Base, and Kennedy Space Center, and have

announced plans for a fourth in Brownsville, Texas.

SPACE X

• Artificial intelligence is intelligence

demonstrated by machines, in contrast to

the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by

humans and other animals.

• Musk warns that it could be very dangerous

and start a war if not controlled by

government and a fundamental risk to

human civilization.

• They first attack our jobs and then

everything but if done very carefully and

proper gov control,it can be very effective.

• Peope are not aware about AI.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK

PART - 2

By

SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI

B.Sc (Silver Medalist)

M.Sc (Applied Physics)

Facebook: sid_educationconnect

ENTREPRENEUR

• It was clear that SpaceX was more than a hobby to

Musk, who invested $100 million to get it started.

The Falcon 1 made the history books in 2009 as

the first privately-funded, liquid-fueled rocket to put

a satellite into Earth’s orbit.

• The company has also made money. In 2006,

NASA gave SpaceX a contract to develop the

Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which it followed up with

another $1.6 billion contract in 2008. But beyond

headlines and profits, Musk sees SpaceX as filling

a vital need.

• Musk has stated that he does not believe the U.S.

government should provide subsidies to companies

but should instead use a carbon tax to price in the

negative externality of air pollution.

ENTREPRENEUR

• Armed with additional Falcon 9 boosters, In December 2013, a Falcon 9

successfully carried a satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit, a

distance at which the satellite would lock into an orbital path that

matched the Earth's rotation.

• In February 2015, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 fitted with the

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, aiming to observe

the extreme emissions from the sun that affect power grids and

communications systems on Earth.

• In March 2017, SpaceX saw the successful test flight and landing of a

Falcon 9 rocket made from reusable parts, a development that opened

the door for more affordable space travel.

• The company enjoyed another milestone moment in February 2018 with

the successful test launch of the powerful Falcon Heavy rocket.

INNOVATIONS

• Tesla, Inc. (originally Tesla Motors) was incorporated in July 2003 by

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until

the Series A round of funding.

• Both men played active roles in the company's early development prior to

Elon Musk's involvement.Musk led the Series A round of investment in

February 2004, joining Tesla's board of directors as its chairman. Musk

took an active role within the company but was not deeply involved in day-

to-day business operations.

• Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity and

hyperloops. In December 2015, Musk announced the creation of OpenAI,

a not-for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company. OpenAI aims

to develop artificial general intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial

to humanity.

FALCON ROCKETS

• The Falcon rocket family is an American family

of multi-use rocket launch vehicles. The vehicles

in this family include the flight-tested Falcon 1 and

Falcon 9

• The Falcon 1 made its first successful flight on 28

September 2008, after several failures on the

initial attempts.

• Falcon Heavy (FH) is a super heavy lift space

launch vehicle designed . The Falcon Heavy is a

variant of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle comprising

three Falcon 9 first stages: a reinforced center

core, and two additional side boosters.

• They are very cost effective and can be reused

which is one of the most remarkable feature of

this.

HOW IT WORKS?

NET WORTH

• His fortune owes much to his stake in Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), of which he

remains CEO and chief product architect. As of December 2017, his net worth is

up more than $7 billion from $13.2 billion in March 2016.

• SpaceX has also contributed mightily to Musk’s net worth. The space-exploration

company he founded in 2002 raised $1 billion from Google Inc. and Fidelity

Investments in January 2015. According to Forbes, SpaceX is valued at more

than $20 billion as of December 2017.

• Musk is also a generous philanthropist through the Musk Foundation, which he

chairs. The foundation focuses on delivering solar energy systems to parts of the

world that have been struck by natural disasters.

• It collaborated with SolarCity to bring a 25 kW solar power system to Coden,

Alabama, after the area had been hit by a hurricane in 2010. After Sōma, Japan

was badly damaged by a tsunami in 2011, the foundation donated $250,000

towards a solar power project.

DREAMING THE FUTURE AND BUILDING IT

• His dream is big.He firt thought of colonizing Mars in 2002 but now he is

building hyperloops,electric cars,solar panels,AI etc with having future in

mind.

• His boring company providing tunnels for faster and safar routes,tesla is

designing driverless cars,solar panels is helping to find new a new and

very effective source of energy.Star link aims to provide free internet

across the globe to everyone living in remote areas.

• Vast galactical explorations and also aims to colonize Mars and Moon.

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POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

• With Donald Trump announcing plans to pursue massive infrastructure

developments after his successful election to the U.S. presidency in 2016,

Musk found himself on common ground with the new president and his

advisers. That December, he was named to President Trump’s Strategy

and Policy Forum, and the following January he joined Trump's

Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.

• SpaceX has also been dependent on government funding, and has paid

handsomely for it, spending $4 million on lobbying Congress between

2002 and 2016, and spending roughly $800,000 on campaign

contributions to politicians of both parties.

Study iq

"When something is important enough, you do it

even if the odds are not in your favor."

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is

going to be better, it is a bright day.