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Who Elon Musk Really Is
The billion dollar CEO isn’t stupid, but he’s a normal person. Not a superhero.
I’ll start this off by saying something stupid like how Elon Musk is a moron just to get your attention. He isn’t. But I don’t know what Elon Musk is… or does.
Actually, no one knows who Elon Musk is, or what he is. His brain, his body, his figure.. he’s an enigma. For what it is worth, Elon Musk is Tesla’s CEO. He’s filthy rich and grew even richer under the COVID-19 pandemic. He was just given the infamous title “Richest Man in the World” this year.
25 years ago, he founded Zip2, a company developed and marketed city guides for newspapers. Musk and his brother Kimbal, along with Greg Kouri, sold Zip2 to Compaq in 1999 for $307 million. Musk received 7%: $22 million. Using the money from Zip2’s sale, Musk founded X.com, which was the company that later became PayPal. In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion.
Over the next ten years, Musk became involved in both building electric-powered vehicles with Tesla, as well as SpaceX. Tesla launched their convertible in 2008, Model S in 2012, Model X in 2015, Model 3 in 2017, and Model Y in 2020. The new Roadster launches in 2022.
What isn’t so controversial with Elon Musk is that Tesla is building cars that run on…
