American billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to change the Australian power generation market. Who is he?
* Elon Musk was born on 28 June, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.
* He has been married and divorced three times, his current love interest is actress Amber Heard.
* He has stated his vision for the companies as aiming to change the world and humanity, by reducing global warming and the risk of human extinction.
* One of his goals includes setting up a human colony on Mars.
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* In a 2014 interview, Musk described himself politically as half Republican and half Democrat. He said he had donated to both political parties.
* His first company was a web software company started with his younger brother Kimbal. Set up in 1995, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq in 1999. Musk received over $US20 million dollars from the acquisition.
*Musk co-founded X.com in 1999, an online financial services and email payment company, and merged with Confinity, which had a money transfer service called PayPal. Musk made over $US150 million from the sale of PayPal to Ebay in 2002.
* Musk founded SpaceX in 2001 and Tesla Motors in 2003 and remains CEO of both.
* Telsa's website says the engineer and inventor is also the product architect overseeing product development, engineering and design of the company's electric vehicles, battery products and solar roofs.
