This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk 00:03:01 1 Early life 00:05:44 2 Education 00:06:36 3 Career 00:06:44 3.1 Zip2 00:07:39 3.2 X.com and PayPal 00:09:00 3.3 SpaceX 00:17:30 3.4 Tesla 00:25:05 3.5 SolarCity 00:25:55 3.5.1 Gigafactory 00:26:43 3.6 Hyperloop 00:29:29 3.7 OpenAI 00:30:48 3.8 Neuralink 00:31:42 3.9 The Boring Company 00:33:34 3.10 pravduh.com 00:34:35 3.11 Tham Luang cave rescue 00:36:22 3.11.1 Device viability 00:37:29 3.11.2 Media coverage and Musk's behavior 00:40:21 3.12 Teslaquila 00:41:17 3.13 Music 00:41:48 4 Views 00:41:57 4.1 Political 00:44:26 4.1.1 Lobbying 00:47:38 4.1.2 Subsidies 00:50:18 4.2 Destiny and religion 00:51:22 4.3 Extraterrestrial life 00:52:38 4.4 Artificial intelligence 00:56:32 4.5 Public transport 00:58:52 5 Personal life 00:59:01 5.1 Philanthropy 01:00:37 5.2 Family 01:02:23 5.3 Joe Rogan podcast appearance 01:03:41 6 Awards and recognition 01:07:29 7 In popular media 01:07:38 7.1 2010–2016 01:09:06 7.2 2017–Present Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8962057402035069 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Elon Reeve Musk (; born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder and co-chairman of OpenAI; and co-founder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. As of April 2019, he has a net worth of $22.3 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 40th-richest person in the world.Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and later that year became PayPal, which was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He helped fund Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, in 2003, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company that is now a subsidiary of Tesla, and operates as its chairman. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company. In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet. Musk has stated that the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.