Million dollars role model-ELON MUSK

 When Talent and dedication come together the result is Elon musk.

ELON'S INVENSIONS: 

1.Elon has  made a solar energy for the public through his company's solar setae .

2. Made  an electric car possible and inexpensive with Tesla motors.

3.His SpaceX space travel adventure have proven to be a major success , and so on.......

success story of the world's most daring entrepreneur :

Elon taught himself computer programming at an early age, by the age of 12 he created a space game called blaster and sold it for $500. later Elon left home at the age of 17. Elon moved to California to pursue PhD in energy physics at Stanford university.   

Elon and his brother launched a software company in 1995 called Zip-it . the internet was  beginning to expand by leaps and bounds and the newspapers were trying to figure out how they could make the best use of the new media .the Elon's company developed online guides for newspaper publishers and very soon Zip2 had won contracts with The new York times and Chicago tribune . but things were not very smooth at zip2 Elon wanted to be the CEO of the company. but the board stood against to musk. in year 1999 as the tech bubble was approaching to zenith the board sold the company to Compaq for $307 Million along with $34 Million in stock options.  

Elon co-founded X.COM an online banking company using $10 Million from the sale of Zip2. X.COM focused on the service and renamed itself as PayPal in 2001 it soon became the online payment system of choice with a few thousand users  to 1 million users in just a few months at the time of the sale 1 in 4 ebay transactions were completed using PayPal . they decided to sell PayPal to ebay and received $1.5 billions. Elon received $165 millions for his 11.7% stake in PayPal. but even before the PayPal sale had closed Elon had begun to dream up a miniature experiment green house that he could land on mars by the fight back Elon decided to start a company that would built affordable rockets  and launch SpaceX in 2002

In 2006 NASA gave SpaceX a contract to develop the Falcon 9  launch maker with $1.6 billion contract in 2008. Elon came in as a lead investor in tesla motors . he took over as a CEO of tesla motors in 2008  the company's first car the tesla roadster sold 2500 vehicles in 31 countries.

 

Elon came up with the idea for solar city which his cousins linden and peter co-founded in 2006.the company designs finances and install solar panels it also constructs electric car charging stations in collaboration with tesla motors. the company is now become second largest provider of solar power systems in the US.