Elon Musk | The Most Innovative Leaders of 2019 | Founder of Tesla, Spacex, AI, PayPal,

Elon Musk | The Most Innovative Leaders of 2019 | Founder of Tesla, Spacex, AI, PayPal,

Elon Musk:

Innovation and intelligence both are important in business and in real life. In the highly competitive world that we live in, innovative ideas are what will separate you from the rest. When it comes to innovation, intelligence, future technology, this man has become the household name nowadays in  In recent years, The 47-year-old science-fiction visionary hero who made SpaceX, Tesla Inc, Neuralink, Open AI, Paypal, and The Boring Company. He never stops to dream out of the box and makes them real. This daring person is known by the name of Elon Musk. He is the 21st most powerful person in the world which is listed by Forbes. He was ranked first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. He has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 40th-richest person in the world.

Now you have recognised that “Who is Elon Musk?”. Friends let me welcome you with this video to uncover the life story of the most innovative person on this planet.

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Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa His Mother is Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Regina, Canada, and father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor.  He has a younger brother, Kimbal and a younger sister, Tosca. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Joshua Haldeman, was an American-born Canadian. His paternal grandmother was British. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in the suburbs of Pretoria,

At the age of 17, in 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen's University, avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. He left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor's degree in physics. After leaving Penn, Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a Ph.D. in energy physics. However, his move coincided with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his first company, Zip2 Corporation.

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In 1995, Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a web software company, with money raised from a small group of angel investors. The company developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry. Musk obtained contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, online financial services, and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. One year later, the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal. The merged company focused on the PayPal service and was renamed PayPal in 2001.

In 2001, Musk conceived Mars Oasis, a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars, In October 2001, Musk traveled to Moscow with Jim Cantrell and Adeo Ressi who was his best friend from college, to buy refurbished ballistic missiles, that could launch rocket into space. The group met with companies such as NPO Lavochkin and Kosmotras; however, according to Cantrell, Musk was seen as a novice and was consequently spat on by one of the Russian chief designers. 

With US$100 million, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, in May 2002. SpaceX develops and manufactures space launch vehicles with a focus on advancing the state of rocket technology. The company's first two launch vehicles are the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. After So many attempts, the launching was not not successful, but he didn’t gave up. Finally he was able to launch the rocket successfully and. 

In 2006, SpaceX was awarded a contract from NASA for Astronaut transport to the International Space Station.

In seven years, SpaceX designed the family of Falcon and the Dragon multipurpose spacecraft. In September 2008, Falcon 1 rocket became the first privately funded liquid-fueled vehicle to put a satellite successfully into Earth’s orbit despite of several failures in the past. On May 25, 2012, the Dragon berthed with the International Space Station, making history as the first commercial company to launch and berth a vehicle to the International Space Station.

Musk believed that the key to making space travel affordable is to make rockets reusable. On December 22, 2015, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon rocket back at the launch pad. This was the first time in history such a feat had been achieved by an orbital rocket and was a significant step towards lowering the costs of access to space. This first stage recovery was replicated several times in 2016 by landing on an ocean-based recovery platform. By the end of 2017, SpaceX had landed and recovered the first stage on 16 missions in a row including all 14 attempts in 2017.

Tesla, Inc. was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Both men played active roles in the company's early development prior to Elon Musk's involvement. Musk led the group with a round of investment in February 2004, joining Tesla's board of directors as its chairman. Tesla Motors first built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in 2008, with sales of about 2,500 vehicles to 31 countries. Tesla began delivery of it's four-door Model S sedan on June 22, 2012. It unveiled its third product, the Model X, aimed at the SUV/minivan market, on February 9, 2012. In addition to its own cars, Tesla sold electric powertrain systems to Daimler for the Smart EV, Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive, and Mercedes A Class, and to Toyota for the RAV4 EV. Musk favored building a more affordable Tesla model and building and selling electric vehicle powertrain components so that other automakers could produce electric vehicles at affordable prices without having to develop the products in-house; 

In 2014, Musk announced that Tesla would allow its technology patents to be used by anyone in good faith in a bid to entice automobile manufacturers to speed up the development of electric cars. As of January 29, 2016, Musk owned about 28.9 million Tesla shares, which equates to about 22% of the company.

Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity, which was then co-founded in 2006 by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. By 2013, SolarCity was the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States. SolarCity was acquired by Tesla, Inc. in 2016 and is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tesla.

On August 12, 2013, Musk unveiled a concept for a high-speed transportation system incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.

In December 2015, Musk announced the creation of OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence research company. OpenAI aims to develop artificial general intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial to humanity. In 2018 Musk left the OpenAI board to avoid possible future conflicts with his role as CEO of Tesla as Tesla increasingly becomes involved in AI.

In 2016, Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup company to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence. The company is centered on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain, with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence. 

On December 17, 2016, while stuck in traffic, he came up with an idea of digging a tunnel and he formed and company. The company was named 'The Boring Company’. On January 21, 2017, The first tunnel was started on the SpaceX campus.

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