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Elon Musk has made guest appearances in many notable Hollywood movies including Iron Man 2 and TV series such as The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.and is often referred to as the ‘real-life Iron Man’ He is said to have inspired the persona of the character ‘Tony Stark’ played by Robert Downey Jr.He was often bullied as a child and once, he was beaten up so bad that he had to be hospitalised.Having invested in several other futuristic technology ventures, Elon Musk is one of the richest tech leaders in the world today.The rocket carried a mannequin called ‘Starman’ and Musk’s personal cherry-red Tesla Roadster along, which were launched into space The Falcon Heavy, which was the world’s most powerful operational rocket of the time, completed its first flight in 2018.

Promoting the concept of reusable rockets, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft took their second flight in 2017.In 2017, he started Neuralink which aims at developing a man-machine interface that could connect the human brain with computers.Later that year, he launched The Boring Company to make transportation faster in cities.Tesla acquired SolarCity - a clean energy company which Musk helped his cousins start - in 2016.

In 2010, Tesla went public raising $226 million.The same year, he became the CEO and product architect of Tesla and the company introduced an electric sports car called the Tesla Roadster.

In 2008, SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first liquid-fuel rocket developed by a private firm to reach the orbit.

In 2004, he became one of the early and primary investors in Tesla - an electric car company aimed at making the future of transportation more sustainable - and joined the company’s board as chairman.

Earlier in 2002, Musk founded a spacecraft company called Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX to make space travel cheap and better accessible.

In due course, X.com became PayPal and was eventually absorbed by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion, of which Musk took $165 million home

He used some of the money from the sale to start his next internet venture, X.com, which provided online banking and payment services.

The same year, he partnered with his brother Kimbal Musk to start Zip2 - an online maps and guides service - which was sold to Compaq for $307 million in 1999, earning Elon $22 million.

It was the time of the internet boom and Musk wanted to explore

In 1995, he got into Stanford University for a PhD program but left just after two days.

He moved to Canada in 1988 for college but transferred to UPenn, a few years later, from where he eventually graduated.

At 12, he developed a game called Blastar which he later sold for $500

After being introduced to computers at the age of 10, Elon Musk soon learned the programming language BASIC.