Elon Musk

The Mahalo Top 7

Wikipedia: Elon Musk
USA Today: "Taking a cheap shot at space" (2003)
HobbySpace: Interview (2003)
Space.com: Top 10 Imaginations at Work: #10
Inc.com: Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon Musk
Chairman: Tesla Motors
CEO & CTO: Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)

Elon Musk Professional Profile

Current Projects:
- Chairman, Tesla Motors
- CEO and CTO, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
- Chairman, SolarCity
- Chairman, Musk Foundation
- Director, The Planetary Society
- Trustee, The X-Prize Foundation
Past Projects:
- Executive Producer, Thank You For Smoking
- Co-founder, X.com, which later became PayPal
- Founder, Zip2

Elon Musk News and Gossip

Google News: Elon Musk
Spaceflight Now: "Falcon flies to space but misses orbit"
Economist.com: Rocket Man
Outside Green: "Green Investing Guide: Mr. Clean" (2006)

U.S. Senate Committee Testimony: Space Shuttle & the Future of Space Launch Vehicles (2004)

New York Times: Elon Musk Articles
Technorati: Elon Musk
Valleywag: Elon Musk

Elon Musk Photo and Video

Flickr: Elon Musk
Google Images: Elon Musk
SpaceX: Video Gallery
Netscape & Autoblog Green: Tesla Roadster-Exclusive VIDEO
YouTube: Interview With Elon Musk Tesla Motors
YouTube & Google Video

Background

The son of a South African engineer and a Canadian mother, Elon Musk was born and raised in South Africa. His father bought Musk his first computer at age 10 and he taught himself how to program. By the age of 12 he sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. At the age of 17 Musk left South Africa in part because of compulsory service in the South African Military and enrolled at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after receiving a scholarship to the Wharton School of Business. There he received a bachelors in Economics and stayed an extra year to finish a degree in Physics.

Entrepreneur

In 1995 Elon left a graduate program in physics at Stanford University to start online content publishing software provider Zip2. The company was bought by Compaq's AltaVista division for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options in 1999. In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and email payments company which later became PayPal. PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock in October 2002. Earlier that year Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, a developer and manufacturer of space launch vehicles. Musk is the principle owner and has been Chairman of the Board of Tesla Motors the manufacturer of the Tesla Roadster since 2004.