Elon Musk

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Elon's Career:

• SpaceX - Elon Musk leads Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), where he oversees the development and manufacturing of advanced rockets and spacecraft for missions to and beyond Earth orbit.
• Tesla - Elon Musk is the co-founder and CEO at Tesla, overseeing all product design, engineering and manufacturing of the company's electric vehicles, battery products, and Solar Roofs.
• SolarCity - Musk provided the initial concept and financial capital for SolarCity. 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.
• OpenAI - In December 2015, Musk 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.
• Neuralink - In 2016, Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup company to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence.
• The Boring Company - An infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by Elon Musk in 2016. To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D.
• Zip2 - Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a web software company. The company developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry. Compaq acquired Zip2 in February 1999. Musk received US$22 million for his 7 percent share from the sale.
• PayPal - Elon's role in Paypal has always been very controversial. However, he did have a very strong role to play in the venture and its success.
• As you can see from this list, Elon's career has not only been financially successful, but he has made strides for humanity with ideas and solutions for making our planet more sustainable.