10 Interesting Facts About Elon Musk

Elon Musk created and sold a video game to a magazine when he was just 12 years old

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Musk almost sold Tesla to Google for $11 billion in 2013 but the deal came to a halt at the eleventh hour

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Musk's first business venture was Zip2, a company that provided newspapers with maps and business directories

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Musk dropped out of Stanford after just two days to start Zip2 - his first business venture

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Musk has made cameo appearances on 'The Simpsons', and "The Big Bang Theory'

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Musk established Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, in 2002

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Musk bought James Bond's submarine car which featured in the classic 'The Spy Who Loved Me' for close to $1 Million

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Robert Downey Jr. based his character Tony Stark (Iron Man) on Elon Musk

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Musk unveiled the concept of Hyperloop in Aug 2013.

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Musk co-founded X.com in 1999. which later became Paypal and was purchased by e-bay in 2002

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