At the age of 12 he published in a magazine the code for a video game he had written.
His troubled father made his childhood “a kind of misery”, but he was also free to experiment with building home-made rockets in the company of his cousins.
Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971. So who exactly is he, and can he be serious? “My mind is not easily blown,” Downey Jr reported, “but this place and this guy were amazing.” Musk has also been a guest star on The Simpsons. Robert Downey Jr took inspiration from a visit to Musk’s rocket factory for his portrayal of Iron Man’s Tony Stark. While Mark Zuckerberg wants to change the world by enabling you to see more baby photos, the man who glories in the sci-fi name of Elon Musk wants to change the world by solving transport and global warming, and establishing a colony on Mars. Yet the most intriguing figure among the Valley’s billionaire entrepreneurs right now makes incredibly elaborate machines: electric cars and space rockets. It has got to the stage where many tech startups look like parodic solutions in search of problems, as with the dozens of companies hoping to become the Uber for laundry. Learn about his early years in South Africa and Canada, move to Silicon valley and his plans to travel to Mars.T he hype about the information age has been going on for so long that you’d assume all Silicon Valley innovation these days is based on apps and the internet, rather than sophisticated physical engineering: bits, not atoms. This book tells the story of Elon Musk, American businessman and multi-billionaire. Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.
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