Elon Musk is an Iron Man of Real Life

Iron Man has been watched by almost everyone and Tony Stark’s character became everyone’s favorite. It would come as a surprise to people who do not know that the role of Tony Stark was inspired by a real life character, youngest billionaire of US, who believes that failing is an option and if one is not failing then he is not innovating much. The man has been behind many innovations incorporated in real life in last decade. Yes we are talking about a real life Tony Stark, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, X.com, SolarCity, who has not only invented techy things but his success lies in making those inventions commercially viable for users and profitable for him.

This iron man guy was born in 1971 in South Africa but later in 1988 acquired Canadian citizenship from his mother. His credits were transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he completed his degree with two majors, economics and physics. He got enrolled in Stanford University in 1995 for further studies but he quit in two days for testing his own entrepreneurial skills. He started Zip2 which provided a platform to media companies for publishing content. This was sold to the Compaq four years later in exchange of amount over $300 million, $22 million of the total deal was earned by the Musk himself. Same year in 1999 X.com was started by Musk which offered financial services or internet bank more precisely. Xcom bought Confinity, known for PayPal in 2000 and in the same year Musk tied knots with Justin Musk. In next two years Musk sold PayPal to EBay for $1.5 billion through which Musk earned $160 million stocks of EBay. So fond of doing things simultaneously, Musk started another company SpaceX, Space Exploration Company.

Our real life Tony Stark founded Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), electric car company, in 2004 and Musk himself designed the model. The first car was produced in 2006 and Time Magazine titled it to be the Invention of the Year. In 2012 the most popular and successful model of Electric Cars was introduced, named Model S. Musk went beyond electric cars and established SolarCity (SCTY) with his cousin; company provides solar power to many building and is a largest player in solar industry.

Elon Musk got separation from his wife, after eight years of marriage having five boys and married a British Actress two years later.  Our celebrity entrepreneur, Elon Musk has been in meeting with Barrack Obama several times and many of his inventions were integrated into the government policies.

This guy believes that America is the place to make things possible and dreams about creating residential colony in Mars. Business Champion has a vision which could be achieved by the Genius only.