Elon Musk

• January 2019

  Traveled to China for the groundbreaking of Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory, which is the company's first large-scale plant outside the U.S.

• February 2018

  SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, the fourth-highest capacity rocket ever built (after Saturn V, Energia and N1) and the most powerful rocket in operation as of 2018.

• In 2016

  Co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup company to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence.

• 22^th December 2015

  SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon rocket back at the launch pad.

• December 2015

  Announced the creation of OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company. OpenAI aims to develop artificial general intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial to humanity.

• 17^th June 2015

  Committed to building a SolarCity advanced production facility in Buffalo, New York, that would triple the size of the largest solar plant in the United States.

• July 2003

  Encorporated Tesla, Inc. (originally Tesla Motors) with Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until the Series A round of funding

• 1999

  Co-founded X.com, an 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.

• 1995

  The very beginning of my life!

  Started Zip2, a web software company, with money raised from a small group of angel investors.

• 28^th June 1971

  Born in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa

Personal life

• Philanthropy

  I am a chairman of the Musk Foundation, which focuses its philanthropic efforts on providing solar-power energy systems in disaster areas.

• Family

  Tosca Musk, my sister, is a filmmaker. She is the founder of Musk Entertainment and has produced various movies.I am really proud of her!

  Also I had 2 wives, but it`s another story