Elon Musk, Who's the man behind futuristic ideas like Tesla Motors, Hyperloop, SpaceX and Paypal to name a few. The success story of Elon Musk is not just inspirational but also redefines the word innovation in the modern startup world.

Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa. He learned computer programming at an early age and sell first his programme at age of 12. He created Space game BLASTER and sold it for $500. He moved to California to pursue a PHD in energy Physics at Stanford University. Elon and his brother Kimbal launched a software company in 1995 called Zip2 using $28000 father's money.

The board sold the company to COMPAQ for $307 million. In sell Elon receives 7% valuing up to 22 million. Same year Musk co-founded X.Com which was an online banking company. He renamed it as PayPal in 2001. Soon it becomes the online payment system of choice.

The idea of shifting on Mars led him to launched SpaceX in 2002. In 2006 NASA gives a contract to SpaceX to develop Falcon9. He becomes CEO of Tesla Motors in 2008. In July 2016 he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain-computer interfaces. In December 2016 he founded the Boring Company, an infrastructure & tunnel construction company. He envisioned an open-source high-speed transportation system known as hyperloop based on the concept of a vactrain.

At the end of December 2019 he was not in top 10 richest person list but onwards 2020 first quarter he entered and become the richest person of the world in Jan 2021. He is the risk-taking and self-confident man.