Happy Birthday Elon Musk who earned $500 from a computer game at the age of 12, is celebrating his 53rd birthday today. From the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla to the space company SpaceX and the owner of the social network X, he is a successful entrepreneur in the technology sector.
Born in South Africa on June 28, 1971, Musk’s success story begins in childhood.
In 1984, he sold the code of his first computer game ‘Blaster’ to the magazine PC and Office Technology for 500 US dollars. The blaster game of Musk, who is also known as a space lover, was related to space.
According to an article published in the biography portal, he made his first game after realizing that if he could make software and sell it, he could make money. He bought a new computer with the money he earned at that time.
Then, in the mid-90s, he developed the ‘Zip2’ software together with his brother Kimball, which was bought by a company called ‘Compaq’ in 1999 for 30 billion and 7 million US dollars.
Musk, who understands the importance of money well, launched the online payment company ‘X.com’ (X.com) a month after selling the software, which is known as PayPal today.
At that time eBay was the largest online payment company. Two years after the launch of X.com, eBay bought PayPal for 1 billion 500 million and merged the services of eBay and PayPal.
Therefore, it is assumed that Musk openly supported Ukraine in the war between Ukraine and Russia that started on February 24, 2022. So much so, that Musk expressed that he was ready to fight with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Then Musk did what he had been doing. That is, after his dream of buying a spaceship did not come true, he started building his own spaceship. And SpaceX started.
In 2002, the private space exploration company SpaceX was born. Falcon One, the first spacecraft built by the company, succeeded in reaching the Falcon Orbit in the fourth attempt made in September 2008 after three failed attempts to reach the Earth’s lower orbit.
This effort made SpaceX today the first such private company in the world, which make its own spaceship and successfully bring it to low Earth orbit. Meanwhile, NASA also provided financial support of one billion 600 million US dollars to SpaceX.
His other company Tesla has also contributed to making Musk famous in the world. Musk invested in this company in 2004 when Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpening were looking for investment to advance this car company that started on July 1, 2003.
From that time until today, Tesla has provided many good vehicles to the electric vehicle market. Due to the growing demand for electric vehicles, Tesla has managed to create a good market today.
Because of this Tesla, today Musk has become the richest person in the world. His current wealth is more than 223 billion US dollars (about 296 trillion 59 billion rupees).
Starlink, a new internet project for earthlings, was launched on January 16, 2015, by Musk and his brother Kimball. Musk is still effectively promoting Starlink. Currently, this internet is available in more than 100 countries of the world.
In the neighboring country India and our own country Nepal, the company has mentioned on the website that it is waiting for regulatory approval. SpaceX plans to place 4200 satellites in low-earth orbit by 2027. It can provide internet worldwide. According to the 2022 report, 2857 new customers were added to Starlink every day. With the expansion of Starlink, this number is currently higher. Currently, the company is said to have 3 million active users.
After taking ownership of Twitter, which was popular as a microblogging site, he transformed it into social network X. Now you can post long texts, interact, and make audio and video calls from this platform. Musk claims that after turning it into a private company, it has promoted the aspect of freedom of speech. However, X has been dragged into various controversies.
In a recently released podcast, Arbaugh openly shared how he felt reborn because of the chip. The company is also preparing to test another person. The application was also opened for that.
On the occasion of Musk’s 53rd birthday, his mother May Musk wished him well. While keeping a post celebrating Musk’s fourth birthday on X, she wrote, “Happy birthday Alan Musk. Thank you for 53 years of joy and enthusiasm. I hope you have more smiles today than you had on your fourth birthday.