Elon Musk's 50th Birthday: Facts On Real-Life ¡®Iron Man¡¯ That You Didn't Know

Elon Musk is a man of many achievements. One of its companies, Tesla, is popularizing electric cars and revolutionizing the automotive industry. Another, SpaceX, is finally taking the Americans back into space after nine years of relying on Russian rockets.

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He even designed a potentially revolutionary transport system, Hyperloop, and opened up the idea to anyone interested in making it a reality. Today Elon Musk turns 50 and here we bring some interesting facts about him that you probably didn't know.

Elon Musk developed a game at 12

¡°When Elon was young, I noticed that he read everything,¡± Maye Musk wrote in her book | Photo : Maye Musk

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Elon Musk made a game called BLASTER at the age of 12. He sold this game to PC & Office Technology Company for $500 at that time. He made the BLASTER game with a computer named commodore vic 20. The online version of this game is still available on the Internet.

Elon Musk's $1 food budget

Elon Musk spends more than 12 hours a day reading books. During his college days, he used to spend less than $1 on his one day's food and buying hot dogs and oranges in bulk.

Elon Musk turned house into a nightclub

Elon Musk with one of his son | Photo : Elon Musk

Elon Musk once rented a friend's house and every weekend evening he turned the house into a nightclub for his college friends. Entry Fees of that nightclub used to be $5 at that time, sometimes more than 500 people used to come to the nightclub, which means he earned $2500 in night every weekend.

Elon Musk's beginning

In 1995 Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk started a software company named Zip2. It worked like Google Maps. The Zip 2 was sold by Musk to the COMPAQ company for $307 million in 1999.

Elon Musk's first car

Elon Musk in 1995 | Photo : Maye Musk

In 1999, he bought his first car, a McLaren F1. But after a few years, due to not being able to afford the insurance of this car, he sold it.

Elon Musk - Paypal

In 1999, Elon Musk founded x.com a financial service company by investing 10 million dollars. A year later, x.com merged with a company named Confinity. Which later came to be known as PayPal. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion, of which Elon Musk's share was $165 million.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla

Elon Musk turns 50 today | Photo : AFP

Musk became the CEO of Tesla in 2008, and in 2013, Solar City became Tesla's second largest provider of solar power systems in the U.S.A.

Elon Musk's AI Fear

Despite having founded two companies related to artificial intelligence (Neuralink and OpenAI) and making heavy use of the technology in Tesla vehicles, Musk is one of those who fear it will bring the end of the human race.

Elon Musk's birth

Elon Musk's mother Maye Musk shares rare unseen photo of tesla ceo on his birthday | Photo : Maye Musk

Elon Musk was born in Pretoria in South Africa to Errol Musk, a successful engineer and built a life as an entrepreneur and an investor and Maye Musk a Canadian-South African model and dietitian where he spent most of his childhood until he moved to Canada at the age of 17.

Elon Musk's Citizenship

Elon Musk holds the citizenship of three countries - South Africa, Canada, and the United States of America. Currently he resides in Los Angeles, California.

Elon Musk's Education

Elon Musk celebrates his 18th birthday in 1989 | Photo : Maye Musk

Elon Musk received two bachelor's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he moved to California to study physics at Stanford. Surprisingly, he gave up just after two days to found his company, Zip2 Corporation.

Elon Musk's Children

Musk has six children, all boys. His first wife gave birth to a set of twins named Xavier Musk and Griffin Musk in 2004 and then to triplets named Kai Musk, Saxon Musk and Damian Musk in 2006. In 2018, Musk started dating Canadian singer Claire Elise Boucher and two years later had a son with her named X ? A-Xii Musk.

Elon Musk's companies

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils SpaceX's new seven-seat Dragon V2 spacecraft, in Hawthorne, California on May 29, 2014 | Photo : AFP

Elon Musk founded a total of eight companies so far - Zip2, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

Elon Musk Salary

Elon Musk is just making an annual salary of $1 from Tesla when most of his fortune comes from his share of inventory.

Elon Musk's Hollywood debut

Scene when Elon musk meet Tony Stark in Iron Man (2010) | Photo : Youtube

Musk has made appearances on American sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory, Simpsons, and South Park and also made an appearance in Marvel's Iron Man 2 alongside Robert Downey Jr.

Fan of X-Men

The CEO of Tesla is a huge fan of the X-Men because he once decided to name some of the robots in his Tesla facility after mutant superheroes like Xavier, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus and Iceman.

Elon Musk was bullied as a kid

Kimbal Musk (L), Maye Musk and Elon Musk in 1996 | Photo : Maye Musk

He learned karate, judo, and wrestling at age 15 because he was often bullied in his class. He was almost beaten to death after a group of boys pushed him down a flight of stairs.

Elon Musk net worth

Today Elon Musk is the second richest person in the world with a net worth $165.9 billion, according to Forbes.