A Tribute to Elon Musk

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A Tribute to Elon Musk

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  <h1 id="title">Elon Musk</h1>
  <h4 id="subtitle"><em>Inventor, Futurist, Innovator</em></h4>

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  <p>Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, co-founder of PayPal, at release of new Tesla Model</p>
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    <h2>A Timeline of Musk's Career:</h2>
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        <li><b>1995</b> - Elon and his brother Kimbal started Zip2, a web software company, with US$28,000 of their father's money</li>  
        <li><b>1999</b> - Compaq acquires Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options</li> 
        <li><b>1999</b> - Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2.</li> 
        <li><b>2000</b> - X.com merged with Confinity, which had a money transfer service called PayPal</li>
        <li><b>2000</b> - Musk is ousted from his role of CEO but still stayed on the board, mainly over disagreements on his desired to move PayPal's Unix based infrastructure to Microsoft Windows</li>
        <li><b>2001</b> - The merged company focused on the PayPal service and was renamed PayPal</li>
        <li><b>2001</b> - Musk conceptualized "Mars Oasis"; a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars, containing food crops growing on Martian regolith, in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration</li>
        <li><b>2002</b> - PayPal is acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock</li>
        <li><b>2002</b> - With US$100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, in June 2002</li>
        <li><b>2009</b> - SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket became the first privately funded liquid-fueled vehicle to put a satellite into Earth orbit</li>
        <li><b>2012</b> - The SpaceX Dragon vehicle berthed with the ISS, making history as the first commercial company to launch and berth a vehicle to the International Space Station</li>
        <li><b>2015</b> - Space X successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon rocket back at the launch pad, this was the first time in history such a feat had been achieved by an orbital rocket and is a significant step towards rocket reusability lowering the costs of access to space.</li>
      
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    <h2>"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."</h2>
    <p>- Elon Musk</p>
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    <h3>If you have more time to read about this individual, check out his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk">Wikipedia</a> page.</h3>
  
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