We know famous and rich people who spend most of their time partying and spending money on yachts, expensive cars and girls. But not everyone is like that. Meet Elon Musk, the visionary who transcends the ideas of Steve Jobs.
Elon Musk is just like the founder Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, started programming programs and sold his first computer game at the tender age of 12 for 500 US dollars.
Elon he bet a lot on education. Graduated in both business and physics from the University of Pennsylvania. Only later did he focus on researching new business ideas and creating start-up companies.
It's the first million Musk earned in 1999 when his then company Zip2 sold to a computer giant Compaq. He created the company with his brother and made enviable profits from the completed business 22 million dollars.
While his career was strictly on the rise, his private life suffered. In 2000, he married Justin Musk, with whom they have five sons. He remarried in 2010 to Talulah Riley. But he didn't last long with her either, as they broke up two years later.
After the success of Zip2, Elon bought a start-up company that later developed into a world-renowned company PayPal - online payment service. Just two years later, he sold his 11.7 percent stake eBay and earned a whopping $1.5 billion. For Elon, this did not mean that he could stop and start enjoying life like many rich people. Even before closing the deal, he started working with two companies that made him one of the most recognizable people in the world. SpaceX and an electric vehicle manufacturing company, Tesla.
In 2006, Elon's cousin Lyndon Rive founded SolarCity, which concept was developed by Elon himself. There are two SolarCity became the largest supplier of solar energy in the United States.
2006 was a turning point for electric Tesla. With the first model Roadster received the "Innovation of the Year" award from Time magazine.
It's two years later Tesla Roadster went into series production and SpaceX signed a contract with NASA for the organization of space flights worth 1.6 billion US dollars.
Tesla Model S is Tesla's greatest success. A prestigious electric sedan that heralds the future of transportation. She won many awards and prizes "Car of the Year". Now it is also spreading to Europe and the first responses are incredible. It was in September Tesla Model S the best-selling vehicle in Norway.
Due to many successes and inventions, Elon Musk compare with To Tony Stark, the protagonists of the series Iron Man. But despite his popularity in the world of glitter, he preferred to look elsewhere for allies. He understood the senator very well Dianne Feinstein and befriended the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
With his influence, money and knowledge, he set himself even greater challenges, at which many people would wave their hands. On the planet Mars wants to establish a colony with 80 thousand people. The ticket for the flight will cost 500 thousand dollars. One of his latest projects is the transportation system Hyperloop. A tube that transports passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.
But it's not all about projects and challenges, which is why Elon bought a property in luxurious Bel Air this year for which he paid 17 million dollars.
Tesla never rests. They are already developing and launching a new vehicle, model X electric city SUV.
That his enthusiasm for cars is really great, he proved a few days ago when he bought Bond's vehicle. He bought a "submarine" for a million dollars Lotus Esprit, which the English agent used in the film "The Spy Who Loved Me".
Elon Musk he is a man who literally changes the world. It enforces new guidelines for transport, life and energy use. His most incredible ideas seem plausible with time, so we believe that he is far from saying the last word. He is only 42 years old.
