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Elon Musk turns 50! Here’s a quick look at his career so far

There are so many congratulatory tweets on his birthday. His well-known interest in bizarre memes made him an internet sensation and recently one tweet on cryptocurrency Dogecoin skyrocketed the value of one an internet joke.

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Updated:Jun 28, 2021, 01:32 PM IST

OpenAI

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Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, to build artificial intelligence for humans.

Solar City aka Tesla Energy

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In 2006, Musk further helped his cousins Peter and Lyndon Rive set up SolarCity in 2006 which later got acquired by Tesla and it is known as Tesla Energy.

Tesla Motors

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Elon Musk joined Tesla Motors as chairman and product architect and later became CEO of that company in 2008.

SpaceX

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In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX in 2004.

X.com

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Musk founded an online bank X.com in 1999 which later became part of PayPal in 2000. Eventually, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002.

Zip 2

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After completing his college, Elon Musk started a company called Zip 2, which was unveiled in collaboration with his brother, Kimbal, and Greg Kouri. Later in 1999, Compaq acquired that company for $307 million.