Age 12: First video game sold for $500
The Beginning
Born in 🇿🇦 Pretoria, South Africa on June 28, 1971
At just 12 years old, he taught himself programming and created "Blastar" - a space-themed video game
Sold it to a computer magazine for $500 💰
ELON MUSK
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The Numbers Tell a Story
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SpaceX Valuation
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Tesla Market Cap
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Major Companies
The Journey
🌐 Zip2
Co-founded with brother Kimbal. Sold to Compaq for $307M
💳 X.com → PayPal
Online payment revolution. Sold to eBay for $1.5B
🚀 SpaceX Founded
Mission: Make life multiplanetary
⚡ Tesla Chairman
Joined as chairman, became CEO in 2008
🎯 First Rocket Landing
Falcon 9 successfully lands - history made
🧠 Neuralink + Boring Company
Brain-computer interface & tunnel boring
👨🚀 NASA Partnership
First private company to send astronauts to ISS
🐦 Twitter/X Acquired
$44 billion acquisition
🚀 Making Life Multiplanetary
SpaceX revolutionized space travel by:
- ✓ Reducing launch costs by 90%
- ✓ First to land and reuse orbital rockets
- ✓ Launching astronauts to ISS
- ✓ Building Starship for Mars missions
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Successful Launches
⚡ The Electric Revolution
Tesla transformed the automotive industry
Roadster
0-60 in 1.9s 🏎️
Model S
405 mi range 🔋
Model 3
Best-selling EV 🌟
Model X/Y
SUVs redefined 🚗
Market Cap: $1+ Trillion
DESTINATION: MARS
Making humanity a multiplanetary species
225M
km to Mars
2029
Target year
1M
People goal
The Empire
SpaceX
$180B
Tesla
$1T+
Neuralink
Brain→PC
Boring Co
Tunnels
X
$44B
OpenAI
Co-founder
Words of Wisdom
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
Global Impact
🌍 Climate Action
95%
🚀 Space Innovation
98%
🤖 AI Development
85%
🧠 Neuroscience
75%
🎉 You found the Easter Egg!
Fun fact: Elon once bought a $1M McLaren F1 and crashed it uninsured!
