100 Facts About Elon Musk You Never Heard On The Internet

• Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, and Greg Kouri started Zip2 in 1995.

• They housed the Venture at a small rented office in Palo Alto.

• The Software Company implemented Vector Graphics Mapping and Direction Code in Java.

• Before the company became successful Elon used to sleep on the Office Couch.

• Elon said that they could only afford one computer, and he consequently coded at night, seven days a week all the time because the website was live during the day.

• Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 Million in cash in February 1999.

• Elon received $22 Million from his 7% share from the sale.

• X.com was founded in 1999 by Elon Musk with $10 Million from the sale of Zip2.

• After 1 year the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal.

• The Merged company mainly focused on PayPal services and was renamed PayPal completely from X.com in 2001.

• Elon was kicked out of his role as CEO in October 2000.

• PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 Billion in stock in October 2002.

• This Sale made Musk receive $165 Million from the sale of his 11.7% PayPals Share.

• In 2017, Musk purchased the domain X.com from PayPal for an undisclosed amount.

• With $100 Million of his PayPals Share, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (traded as SpaceX) in May 2002.

• In 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX was selected to provide Crew and Cargo resupply demonstration contracts to the International Space Station.

• In 2012 SpaceX made history as the first Commercial Company to launch and berth a vehicle to the International Space Station.

• SpaceX received funding under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program, to develop the Dragon 2 Crew capsule.

• In 2015, on December 22, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon rocket back at the launch pad.

• 20 out of 42 First Stage Falcon 9 boosters have been recovered overall since the Falcon 9 maiden flight in 2010.

• By 2016, Musk’s Private Trust held 54% of SpaceX stocks.

• Tesla, Inc. was originally known as Tesla Motors.

• Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning played active roles in the Company’s early development prior to Elon Musk’s involvement.

• All the founders of Tesla were inspired by the earlier AC Propulsion tzero Electric Roadster Prototype.

• As of 2020, Elon Musk is the longest-tenured CEO of any Automotive Manufacturer globally (13 Years).

• As of December 31, 2019, Elon Musk owns 20.8% of Tesla’s Stock which is about 38.6 Million Shares.

• Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity.

• In 2012, Elon Musk announced that SolarCity and Tesla would collaborate to use electric vehicle batteries to smooth the impact of Rooftop Solar on the Power Grid.

• By 2013, SolarCity was the second-largest provider of solar power systems in the United States.

• Tesla acquired SolarCity for over $2 Billion in 2016.

• The deal’s announcement led to a 10% drop in Tesla’s stock price at that time.

• On 2013 August 12 Elon unveiled a concept for a high-speed Transportation System known as Hyperloop.

• The alpha design for the system was published in a whitepaper posted to the Tesla and SpaceX blogs.

• Such a transport system might be built between the Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area at an estimated total cost of $6 Billion.

• Musk proposed that traveling by Hyperloop will be cheaper than any other mode of transport for such long distances.

• In June 2015, Musk announced a design competition for students to build Hyperloop pods.

• OpenAI was created by Elon Musk in December 2015.

• OpenAI aims to develop Artificial General Intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial to humanity.

• Elon Musk thinks that making AI available to everyone it will counteract large corporations devoted to profits.

• In 2018 Musk left the OpenAI board to avoid possible future conflicts with his role as the CEO of Tesla.

• Musk foundation had added a line to its website, stating its support for the “Development of Safe Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Humanity”

• Neuralink was Co-founded by Elon Musk in 2016 to integrate the human brain with Artificial Intelligence.

• Musk sees Neuralink and OpenAI as related because OpenAI is dedicated to minimizing the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, while Neuralink is working on ways to implant technology into our brains to create mind-computer interfaces.

• In August 2020, Musk described one of their early devices as a “Fitbit in Your Skull”

• On December 17, 2016, Musk while stuck in traffic tweeted “I am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging …”

• The company was named “The Boring Company” (TBC) On January 21, 2017.

• In February 2017, the company began digging a 30-foot (9.1 m) wide, 50-foot (15 m) long, and 15-foot (4.6 m) deep “test trench” on the premises of Space X’s offices in Los Angeles.

• Musk said The Boring Company sold 2,000 “flamethrowers” in 2018.

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Interesting Facts About Elon Musk You Didn’t Know

• On September 6, 2018, Musk takes a puff of a cigar laced with cannabis on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast.

• On March 30, 2019, Musk released a rap track, “RIP Harambe“, on SoundCloud under the name “Emo G Records”.

• On January 30, 2020, Musk released an EDM track, “Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe“, featuring his own lyrics.

• Musk says that he is Half Democrat and Half Republican.

• Musk has frequently spoken about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, calling it the most serious threat to the survival of the human race.

• In early 2020 Elon Musk received criticism for his statement “Coronavirus Panic is Dumb”

• Musk first son with Justine Wilson died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

• Musk’s son X Æ A-12 was deemed illegal under California law so eventually it was changed to “X AE A-XII” where “X” was the first name and “AE A-XII” was the middle name.

• Elon was asked by the grandnephew of Nikola Tesla, to donate $8 Million toward the construction of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.

• In October 2019, Musk donated $1 Million to ‘#TeamTrees‘ a tree planting initiative to plant 20 million trees.

• The Tesla Model S was awarded a 5.4 out of 5 safety rating from the National Highway Safety Administration, the highest rating ever given to an automobile

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