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Elon Musk Innovator | Entrepreneur UDU Celebrates Elon Musk, an engineer, moved to California to pursue a Ph.D. in applied South Africa entrepreneur and a true innovator at heart. physics at Stanford but left the program after Many of you know him as the CEO of Tesla two days to pursue his entrepreneurial Motors or the co founder of Paypal. Elon is also aspirations in the areas of the Internet, fondly referred to as the tony stark of our time. renewable energy and outer space.[14][20] In There is something I bet you did not know 2002, he became an American citizen.[5] “Elon Serves as about Elon....did you know he is also African! inspiration to all of Yes Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Currently Elon builds and operates companies Africa in 1971, to a Canadian mother and a to solve environmental, social and economic us that we can be South African-born British father.[11][12][13] challenges. He currently drives strategy, true vessels of Elon taught himself computer programming development and design at two companies he changes not just in and at age 12 sold the computer code for a created, Space Exploration Technologies our immediate video game called Blastar for $500.[14] After (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors, and oversees a environment but the his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly third company, SolarCity, which he co-founded. world at large.” with his father, Errol, in multiple locales of South He led SpaceX’s efforts to be the first private Africa.[15] company to successfully launch and dock a spacecraft with the international space station Musk graduated from Pretoria Boys High School and moved to Canada in 1988 at the age of 17, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother.[16][17] He did so in advance of his South African military service because he concluded it would be easier to emigrate to the Play Video United States from Canada than from South Africa.[5][14][18] In 1992, after spending two @ years at Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he received a emag.uduonline.com bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree in physics.[19] He 9