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He was born in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the son of Errol Musk, a talented mechanical engineer, and Maye Musk, a model.

Maye Musk had divorced Errol Musk, as he was too cold and distant. Musk had later decided to move in with him, but regretted it shortly after. Elon had described his childhood with him as "miserable".

The public had first met Elon through the South African publication "PC and Office Technology". Elon had sold the source code to a game he created called Blastar, which netted him $500.
(here's the game: https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/")

At 17, Musk had left South Africa to avoid service in the South African Military. He attended Queen's University and had plans to move to the United States.

Elon had completed his time at Queen's University, and had gone to the University of Pennsylvania to study business and physics. He then graduated with an undergraduate's degree in economics and his second bachelors in physics.

Elon, along with his brother Kimbal, started Zip2, a small internet city guide of yesteryear. This was the equivalent of Google Maps before it existed. Early on, the company was primarily funded by Mohr Davidow, who had graciously bestowed them $3 million.

The company was sold to Compaq Computers, which is now known as Hewlett-Packard.
Musk, owning 7% of the company had gained $22 million from the transaction.

Elon had the idea for an online banking system way back during his interning days, and gave form to the concept. A rival had appeared known as Confinity, which had a money-transfer service known as PayPal. Both companies had merged, leaving Elon as CEO and with 11.7% ownership over the newly named PayPal.
Musk had often disagreed with other company leaders, and was found to not be suitable enough as CEO. Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Confinity took his place.
One of the primary reasons for Elon's removal was due to his views on switching their operating system from a unix-based structure to Microsoft Windows.

PayPal was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion, of which Elon had secured $250 million, which after tax was $170 million.

Musk had married his college girlfriend, Justine Wilson. When they first met, Elon had asked to get ice cream together, which she accepted. She then didn't show up to study, which prompted Musk to find her in the school library and show up with two melting ice cream cones.
They had 6 children together before they separated in 2008.

In the October of 2001, Musk had traveled to Moscow with Jim Cantell, an aerospace supplies fixer, and his best friend from college, Adeo Ressi. They had visited NPO Lavochkin and Kosmotras in search of ICBMs, but Musk was seen as inexperienced and was quickly disregarded.
One of the chief designers had spit on Musk and Cantell due to his lack of faith.
They had returned on the February of 2002 with Mike Griffin, a former member of CIA's venture capital arm and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Their treatment was better, but was still poor. They had offered $8 million for a missile, which Musk counter-offered with $8 million for two. He found this to be ridiculous and stormed out of the meeting.
The Russians were confused when he had asked for missiles without the nukes inside of them.

After the separation of Elon and Justine, he had found himself with the actress Talulah Riley. They began dating in 2008, and married in 2010. They had split in 2012, but remarried in 2013. This would continue until 2016, where they would divorce for the last time.