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List of Elon Musk's empire you don't know about!

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Here, we present some of the top Elon Musk companies/businesses you should be knowing.
Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa and he is also one of the richest people in the world.
He is an American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999, SpaceX in 2002, and Tesla Motors in 2003.

"I'm very pro-environment, but let's figure out how to do it better and not jump through a dozen hoops to achieve what is obvious in the first place."
-by Elon Reeve Musk
This is the list of ELON MUSK companies:


1. Zip2

Zip2 is a former American technology company that was the first enterprise founded by brothers Elon and Kimbal. It was founded in 1995 as Global Link Information
They aimed to help businesses clueless about the internet to get online for the first time.
Few small businesses understood the consequences of the internet; they had little idea how to get on, and saw little value in listing their business online or in having their own website.
Net worth: $179.8 billion (As of 12 March 2021)


2. X.com (now PayPal)

The company was initially funded by Elon Musk and Greg Kouri, X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in March 1999, X.com was one of the world's first online banks.
The company quickly merged with software company Confinity and changed its name to PayPal which was bought by eBay in 2001 for $1.5 billion.
In 2017, Musk bought the rights to X.com from PayPal.
Their aim was Musk envisioned X.com as a full-scale banking and investment services site that offered everything from checking accounts to insurance services, mortgage lending, and bonds.
Net Worth in 2021: $45 Billion


3. SpaceX

SpaceX is Aerospace company
It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
Their aim was of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars.
SpaceX raised $850 million in fresh funding this month from a group of investors led by Sequoia Capital.


4. Tesla

Tesla is electric car company.
Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California. Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon Musk joined Tesla in 2004, after investing $6.3 million in Tesla stocks.
Their aim was to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.
Net worth: $174 billion.


5. OpenAI

OpenAI is artificial intelligence company.
It was Founded on December 11, 2015, at Pioneer Building, San Francisco, California, the US by Elon Musk Sam Altman Ilya Sutskever Greg Brockman Wojciech Zaremba John Schulman.
They aim to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
In 2019, OpenAI LP received a $1 billion investment from Microsoft.


6. SolarCity

SolarCity Corporation is a subsidiary of Tesla Inc.
It was founded in 4 July 2004 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive.
SolarCity merged with Tesla in 2016 seemingly as part of Elon Musk's plan to transition the world away from fossil fuels and towards clean solar energy.
Their aim is the world's only vertically integrated sustainable energy company.
Net worth: $2.6 billion


7. Neuralink

The company's headquarters is in San Francisco,It was started in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017.
Co-founded by Tesla Inc and SpaceX CEO Musk in 2016.
Their aim is to Develop ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
Net worth: as of July 2019, it had received $158 million in funding


8. Deepmind

DeepMind is computer programs company.
DeepMind Technologies is a British artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and a research laboratory founded in September 2010.
Elon Musk believes that DeepMind is a “top concern” when it comes to artificial intelligence. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported $600 million.
Elon Musk is one of the first investors in DeepMind, he helped set up the $1 billion OpenAI research lab, and he’s often making comments about AI.


9. The Boring Company

The Boring Company is an American infrastructure and tunnel construction services company founded by Elon Musk in 17 December 2016 headquaters in Los angeles, California, United States.
Their aim is active construction or is planning future projects.


10. Virgin Hyperloop

Virgin Hyperloop is an American transportation technology company was founded on 1 June 2014 founder of the company is Elon Musk, Shervin Pishevar, Josh Giegel, Brogan BamBrogan.
Their aim to eliminate barriers of time and distance by using hyperloop transport to move cargo and passengers immediately, safely, efficiently, and sustainably.
Its publicly stated goal is to provide a fully operational Hyperloop system by 2020 or 2021.

⦿Did you know?

1.Elon Musk developed and sold a video game to a magazine at the mere age of 12 years old!

2. Major objective of SpaceX is also to colonize MARS!

3. Elon Musk in an interview stated - "Tesla was 'about a month' from bankruptcy during Model-3 ramp."!

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