The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is well known as the owner of Tesla, an electric car manufacturer and SpaceX, his private space company. He also took over the Platform of Social Media Twitter and renamed it X. Until recently, Musk worked in the US government as the head of the government – known as Duge – which was part of Donald Trump’s dispensing.
After almost 130 days in the role of Musk, he announced his departure from the department. His time and his close ties with Trump kept him more in the headlines than ever. According to Sky News report, however, there are many less known facts about a billionaire entrepreneur.
Here are seven things you may not know about Elon Musk.
Young Game Developer
At the age of only 12 years at the beginning of the 80s. Musk created a video game called Blastar. Using the coding skills he learned from the age of nine, Musk designed a game where players used their keyboard to shoot alien spacecraft.
In 1984, the game was sold to PC and Office Technology Magazine for $ 500 (371 GBP) and appeared in their December issue.
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The first business success
Musk’s talent for business was soon proved. In 1995, at the age of 24, he and his brother Kimbal founded his first ZIP2 company, which developed an online urban guide for newspapers. Business started with only $ 28,000 (20,000 GBP), but in 1999 it was sold for nearly $ 300 million ($ 222 million).
Before sale, Musk and his brother were almost broken and slept on their office floor – something Muskova later repeated in Tesla’s first days. He earned $ 22 million from the sale and bought a sports car McLaren F1. Said CNN: “Just three years ago I slept on the office floor and now I have a million dollars.”
An experiment with the perfume of the musk
Not all Muska’s companies were long -term. In 2022 he launched a perfume called Burnt Hair, which he described on the boring company website as “the essence of disgusting desire”. The fragrance was $ 100 (74 GBP) for a bottle and sold 10,000 bottles within a few hours, gaining a million dollars.
He joked, “With a name like mine, it was inevitable to get into the smell – why did I even fight him for so long!?” Perfume is no longer available on the company’s website.
In addition to perfume, Tesla released Tesla in 2020 and Musk even sold a limited edition of short shorts Tesla as a playful challenge for betting investors.
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Original X.com and PayPal
Before Twitter became X, Musk founded x.com, online banking and financial company. The platform merged in 2000 with the confity co -founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, and later renamed PayPal.
Musk worked as CEO of PayPal, but was excluded after disputes over the company management. Ebay bought PayPal in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion (1.4 billion GBP). In 2017 eBay sold the domain x.com back Musk.
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Inspiration for Iron Man
Muska’s life was inspired by Hollywood. Iron Man, Mark Fergus, said Tony Stark’s character was partially based on Muska, next to Donald Trump and Apple Steve Jobs.
“Musk took the brilliance of jobs with showmanship of Trump. It was the only one who had a fun factor and celebrity vibration and real business,” said Fergus New York Magazine.
Musk even performed in Iron Man 2 in 2010.
Not the founder of Tesla
Despite the general faith, Musk did not start Tesla. The company was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk was the first investor and in 2008 he became the fourth CEO of Tesla, shortly after the launch of the first Tesla Roadster.
He is attributed to Tesla on the global scene.
Building an “Everything App” app
After buying Twitter for $ 44 billion in 2022 and renaming X, Musk seeks to create an “Everything App”. He wants X to be like WeChat in China and offer sending messages, payments, social media, business services and more.
CEO XA Yaccarino said that 2025 will be the year X “Connect (s) that never consider you possible,” with features like X TV, X Money and Grok.
In January, Musk announced a Visa partnership to allow users to move money between traditional banks and X digital wallet, making payments to friends.
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