Elon Musk has just turned 50 on June 28, 2021 and although the Tesla CEO is very well known in the public's eye as of the moment for Tesla, SpaceX, and even Bitcoin and Doge, not a lot of people know the story behind this eccentric billionaire before 2020 (when everyone knew him). Check out how the young Elon Musk excelled at a very early age, according to Popular Times.
Elon Musk Timeline of Accomplishments
June 28, 1971
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa.
1980
Elon Musk's parents divorced.
1981
Elon Musk started becoming interested in computing with the Commodore VIC-20 and even taught himself computer programming.
1983
By age 12, Elon Musk sold his first ever game "Blastar" to a magazine that was called PC and Office Technology for $500.
June 1989
Elon Musk, age 17, had to move to Canada in order to attend Queen's University. He planned to go to the United States and it was easier coming from Canada.
1992
Elon Musk studied Business and Physics at the University of Pennsylvania graduating with an undergraduate degree in economics and was able to stay for a second bachelor's degree in studying physics.
1995
Elon Musk started an internet city guide web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal.
February 1999
Zip2 was sold to Compaq for $307 million USD.
March 1999
Elon Musk cofounded X.com with $10 million coming from the sale of Zip2
2000
X.com merged with Confinity in order to form PayPal. Elon Musk married his first wife Justine Wilson whom he met at Ontario's Queen's University.
Elon Musk lost his infant son Nevada Alexander Musk at 10 weeks old.
October 2000
Elon Musk got fired as CEO of PayPal over his desire for PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure to be moved to Microsoft Windows.
2001
Elon Musk started conceptualizing the Mars Oasis in an attempt to raise public interest in space exploration.
October 2021
Elon Musk travelled to Moscow, Russia to buy refurbished Dnepr Intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs which could send potential payloads into space. Elon Musk, however, went back to the United States empty-handed.
February 2002
Elon Musk decided to build affordable rockets by starting a company.
May 2002
Elon Musk founded SpaceX with $100 million USD of his own project becoming CEO and CTO.
October 2002
eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion USD. Elon Musk got $165 million.
July 2003
Tesla had become incorporated.
2004
Elon Musk's wife gave birth to two sons, twins, through in vitro fertilization.
February 2004
Elon Musk joined Tesla's board of directors as Chairman leading the Series A round of investment.
2006
Elon Musk's wife gave birth to three sons through in vitro fertilizations. Triplets
Elon Musk provided the financial capital and concept for SolarCity which were founded by his cousins Pete Rive and Lyndon.
SpaceX started to get various contracts from NASA to send cargo and astronauts to the ISS.
2007
Elon Musk became CEO and product architect of Tesla.
2008
Musk and wife Justine got divorced.
2010
Elon Musk married English actress Talulah Riley.
The Musk Foundation with Solar City donated a 25-kW solar power system to the official South Bay Community Alliance's hurricane response center in Coden, Alabama.
2011
Elon Musk announced plans to send humans to Mars in 10-20 years.
July 2011
The Musk Foundation donated $250,000 to a solar power project in Soma, Japan, after a tsunami.
2012
SolarCity and Tesla collaboration for better electric vehicle batteries.
May 25, 2012
SpaceX Dragon docked on the ISS.
2013
SolarCity became the world's second largest solar power provider.
August 12, 2013
Elon Musk revealed his concept for hush-speed transportation through reduced-pressure tubes.
2014
Elon Musk announced open-sourcing Tesla technology allowing anyone to use them.
June 17, 2014
SolarCity advanced production facility to be built in Buffalo, New York. Completed in 2017.
2015
Made a The Simpsons cameo in an episode titled "The Musk Who Fell to Earth."
January 2015
Held Hyperloop design competition.
November 2015
Made a cameo in The Big Bang Theory.
December 2015
Elon Musk announced the creation of OpenAI.
2016
Elon Musk started dating Amber Heard (aquaman)
SolarCity was acquired by Tesla.
Neuralink was co-founded by Musk.
Musk owned 54% of SpaceX stocks giving him 78% voting shares.
September 2016
Elon Musk revealed plans of colonizing Mars.
May 12, 2017
The Hyperloop test run began in Nevada.
2018
Elon Musk left OpenAI to avoid possible conflicts as Tesla CEO
May 7, 2018
Musk started dating Canadian musician Grimes, according to Cosmopolitan.
July 2018
Built a small rescue pod to help the Tham Luang cave rescue. The submarine, however, was unused.
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September 2018
Charged by SEC for tweet about taking Tesla private costing him and the company $20 million.
September 2018
October 2018
The Musk Foundation donated over $480,000 to help install water fountains with filtration systems at all Flint, Michigan schools.
October 2018
Filed for an "intent to use" TM application for Teslaquila.
January 2019
Elon Musk went to China for the groundbreaking of the new Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai.
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Written by Urian B.
