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Elon Musk

Elon Musk is another name you should be familiar with if you haven’t lived under a rock in the past five years. Musk is the founder of Tesla Motors as well as the CTO, CEO, and founder of SpaceX. Besides these two companies, he also co-founded Zip2, OpenAI, and SolarCity. Oh ya, he also founded X.com, which just merged with Cofinity and PayPal.

All of these business ventures have set his current worth $11.5 billion and slotted him at number 21 on Forbes’ The World’s Most Powerful People list. Musk was born in South Africa, but finished school in Canada because he was bullied so badly.

What are his Goals?

Elon Musk has some pretty impressive goals when it comes to his companies. SpaceX is probably his most ambitious project as he is trying to startup public interest in space exploration again. He was inspired by the Foundation series, written by Isaac Asimov, and believes that expanding human life into space is important to preserving our species.

Musk hopes to reduce the cost of putting humans into space and aims to have humans on Mars in ten to 20 years. In 2018, SpaceX has a goal of trying to launch a Dragon spacecraft onto Mars. He says the first manned Mars flight will be in 2024.