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Vance, Ashlee. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.

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Elon Musk was born in "Pretoria, a large city in the northeastern part of South Africa" in 1971. (Page 24)

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Elon Musk moved to Canada at the age of Seventeen. The reason for this is that "he wanted to go to the US as quickly as possible and used Canada as a pit stop, and to avoid military service in Africa" (Page 42).

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One of Elon's job was to clean the boiler room of a lumber mill. 30 people were there on the first day, and by the end of the week, it was only Musk and two other people.

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Elon met his first wife, Justine Wilson at Queen's University. They were married sometime in 2000.

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Elon Musk transferred from Queen's University to the University of Pennsylvania to pursue two degrees: a Bachelor's Degree in physics and an economics degree from the Wharton School (Page 50).

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Elon Musk founded a company called "Zip2" which was a GPS site. The site sold for $307 million to Compaq (Page 8).

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Elon Musk bought a McLaren F1 with his hard-earned money and drove it around a lot instead of keeping it in his garage for special occasions. However, he totaled the hypercar later on (Page 78). https://www.thedrive.com/news/32191/did-you-know-elon-musk-wrecked-an-uninsured-mclaren-f1

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eBay offered to pay $1.5 billion for PayPal (formerly X.com, which was incorporated by Elon with the money used from the sale of Zip2), which Elon agreed to and made $180 million off of it (Page 89).

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Elon Musk divorced his first wife, Justine Wilson in September of 2008 after things started to become messy for Tesla and SpaceX. https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-did-elon-musk-and-his-first-wife-justine-wilson-divorce.html/

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SpaceX had three rocket attempts failed up to August 2, 2008 with their Falcon 1 rocket. Though on September 28, 2008, the rocket did end up succeeding in its mission. https://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/spacex_falcon1_flight_4.html

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On December 23, 2008, SpaceX received a contract to be the supplier for the ISS, being payed 1.6 billion for twelve flights to the station, which shocked Musk (page 210).

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The Falcon 9 is the rocket used to supply the ISS. It only costs $60 million to launch, which is far cheaper than its competitors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxSxgBKlYws

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Elon Musk moved to Los Angeles and invested $100 million into SpaceX, $70 million for Tesla, and $10 million for SolarCity.

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Somewhere in the middle of 2012, Tesla released their Model S sedan, which at the time was far superior than any other sedan on the road. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15117388/2013-tesla-model-s-test-review/

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Elon Musk appears to not really care about housing, as Larry Page recalls him having receiving emails from Musk about him staying over at Page's home for the night (Page 352).