Elon Musk is CEO and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, a company which focuses on space exploration technologies.
Prior to founding SpaceX, Musk founded a company Zip2, which helps newspaper companies put classified ads and other local information on Web sites. He sold it to Compaq for $307 million in cash.
Musk used that to start his next business, PayPal, which enabled e-mail payments. Months after taking it public, he sold it to eBay for $1.5 billion.
Born in South Africa, Musk came to North America at age 17. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned undergraduate degrees in physics and business.
Well NASA doesn't build any rockets. All rockets are built by Boeing, Lockheed or Orbital Sciences. In fact, even the space shuttle is managed by a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed. But I think that the way we are better than say Boeing or Loc...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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