Musk and Profile

co: Musk achieved fame, and garnered a fanatical online fanbase, through his founding of Tesla a motoring company that hit on the insight of starting electric cars at the high, not low, end of the market, creating vehicles with years-long waiting lists that thousands wanted, despite their prohibitive price tags, according to The Guardian. Profile Elon Musk Show Hide The South African-born computer programmer and businessman is worth about 21bn 15bn today. This would be frustrating if he were a teething toddler and understandable if he were an unemployed 4chan dweller, but is incomprehensible given he is the founder and CEO of two companies together valued at around 100bn 77.7bn one of which is going through a year that will make or break it. He was catapulted into the ranks of the super-rich with the sale of Pay Pal to eBay, which netted him 165mIn 2002, he used 100m to found SpaceX, which aims to cut the cost of space travel through technology such as reusable rockets. Musk became a major investor in electric car company Tesla in 2004 and took over the reins in 2008. One of Musk's ultimate goals is to pioneer efforts to colonise Mars. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.