The CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk is the richest person in the world both with money and mind. He is not just the CEO of Tesla Motors but also the founder of a Spacecraft engineering company, SpaceX. Though his professional life is quite popular all around the world, here are some unknown intriguing facts about Elon. Read on to find out: Unknown Facts About Tesla Motors’CEO-Elon Musk
1. Person Raised by Books
Unknown Facts About Tesla Motors’CEO-Elon Musk : Elon Musk was born in South Africa to his parents, Maye (mother) and Errol Musk (father). As his parents were working parents, they never parent him on their own, they used to leave him to a housekeeper.
His parents divorced in 1980, so he stayed with his father, brother, and sister. During some of his interviews, Elon recalled that he always used to read stacks and stacks of books as a child.
2. Created a video game at the age of 12
Elon Musk was a creative guy since his childhood. He always had an interest in science fiction, which resulted in him creating a video game, Blastar at age 12. He wrote the computer programming for the game.
His game was similar to a Japanese shooting video game, Space Invaders. Later, his game was published by a South African company that even paid Elon $500 for its source code.
3. Dropped Out of Stanford
At the age of 17 years old, Elon Musk moved to Canada from South Africa with his mother, sister, and brother. In Canada, he studied at Kingston University for two years. Later, he got his two bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics at the University of Pennslyvania.
Elon decided to pursue a Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University in California. However, he didn’t finish his education and dropped out to start his business, Zip2 Corporation with his brother.
4. Ran a nightclub to pay rent
When Elon used to study at the University of Pennsylvania, he used to live with his roommate, Andeo Ressi. During that time, they rented a huge house which was later, converted into a nightclub.
They converted that house into a nightclub in order to pay their rent bills. Some online resources have reported that the house could hold more than 1,000 people.
5. Opened a school to teach his kids
Unknown Facts About Tesla Motors’CEO-Elon Musk : Elon Musk has opened a school, The meaning of Ad Astra is to the stars. He opened that non-profit in 2014 and since then he is running it. His own children and other children of SpaceX employees also study at the same school.
Elon established the school to provide his children with an education based on unique project-based learning experiences. The unique factor of the school is it does not have any grading system. Even though 400 families have applied to the school, the school has only 50 students.
6. Made appearances in Hollywood movies and sitcoms
Elon Musk has also made appearances in some movies and sitcoms. He made cameos in American sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory, and South Park. He appeared as a guest on the TV show, The Simpsons in 2015.
Also, he appeared in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 alongside Robert Downey Jr as a cameo. Being a big fan of X-men, he has named some of his robots as Xavier, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, and Iceman.
7. Inspired by Kanye West
Elon often mentions that he is inspired by the American rapper, Kanye West. He has been praising Kanye in every interview for four years. In 2015, he even included the biography of Kanye in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people.
In 2018, when Elon was asked by a South by Southwest to tell about the person who inspired him, then he replied:
“Well, Kanye West, obviously,”
8. His Son is named X Æ A-XII
Unknown Facts About Tesla Motors’CEO-Elon Musk : Elon is the father of seven children which includes six sons and a daughter. He shares five sons with his first wife, Justine Wilson. Some of them are twins and triplets, their names are Griffin, Xavier, Kai, Saxon, and Damian.
With the indie singer Grimes, Elon has welcomed two children, a son, and a daughter. Their son born in 2020 is named X Æ A-XII while their daughter who was born in 2021 is named Exa Dark Sideræl.
9. Comes with the Concept of Hyperloop
Elon comes with the Hyperloop concept, a part of The Boring Company. Hyperloop is a high-speed train with a big airtight tube that is used for both public and goods transport. He comes with this concept in the year 2013.
Elon has mentioned that Hyperloop will be useful if it is used in heavily populated areas like Southern California. It will take approximately 85 minutes to travel from San Francisco to LA instead of the six hours drive by car.
In November 2020, two Virgin Atlantic employees tested a ride near Las Vegas and they say it’s on right track.
10. Controversial Person when it comes to Twitter
Elon Musk is known as a controversial person for his provocative tweets like Donald Trump on Twitter. He has been in several controversies throughout his career. During the covid pandemic, Elon tweeted to deliver more than 1,000 ventilators to hospitals in California. However, those ventilators were never received by many hospitals.
Not only this but when the members of a boys’ soccer team in Thailand were trapped in a cave in July 2018, Elon had some engineers working on a liquid transfer tube that could travel through the water in that cave. The government of Thailand found his vessel to be impractical and the British Cave diver as a “PR stunt.” Elon quickly responded by tweeting that the diver was “a pedo guy”.
