Nama: Nur Hidayah Binti Abdul Rahman (3 Islah)
Kelab: Kelab Memanah
Tajuk: Projek Penulisan Tokoh
Everyone must have someone that they look up to as their role model or idol. I, myself have
someone that I look up to. My role model is a very well-known man in the world. His name is
Elon Reeve Musk. I loop up to Elon Musk as my role model because he is a very wise and
rich businessman. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa on 28 June, 1971.
He is now 52 years old. Musk had 10 surviving children. He met his first wife, Canadian
author Justine Wilson, while attending Queen's University in Ontario, Canada; they married
in 2000. In 2002, their first child died of sudden infant death syndrome (it is a real thing) at
the age of 10 weeks. After his death, the couple use IVF to continue their family. They had
twins in 2004 followed by triplets in 2006. The couple divorced in 2008 and shared custody.
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and investor. Musk is the founder, chairman, CEO and
chief technology officer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect and former
chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, chairman and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring
Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He
is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$207 billion as of
October 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $231 billion according to
Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Bryanston High School, and Pretoria
Boys High School, from where he graduated. Musk was a good but not exceptional student,
earning a 61 in Afrikaans and a B on his senior math certification. Musk applied for a
Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother, knowing that it would be easier to
immigrate to the United States this way. While waiting for his application to be processed, he
attended the University of Pretoria for five months.
Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989 and lived with a second cousin in Saskatchewan for a
year, working odd jobs at a farm and lumber mill. In 1990, he entered Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn),
where he completed studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of
Science degree in economics from the Wharton School. Although Musk claims he earned the
degrees in 1995, UPenn maintains it awarded them in 1997. He reportedly hosted large,
ticketed house parties to help pay for tuition, and wrote a business plan for an electronic
book-scanning service like Google Books.
In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion, and that same year, with $100 million of the
money he made, Musk founded SpaceX, a spaceflight services company. In 2004, he became
an early investor in electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He
became its chairman and product architect, assuming the position of CEO in 2008. In 2006,
Musk helped create SolarCity, a solar-energy company that was acquired by Tesla in 2016
and became Tesla Energy. In 2013, he proposed a hyperloop high-speed vactrain
transportation system. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence
research company. The following year, Musk co-founded Neuralink—a neurotechnology
company developing brain–computer interfaces—and the Boring Company, a tunnel
construction company. In 2022, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion. He subsequently merged
the company into newly created X Corp and rebranded the service as X the following year
(this year, but I do not remember when). In March 2023, he founded xAI, an artificial-
intelligence company.
What is amazing about him is that he seems to believe that there is an innovation to solve
every problem that arises. He sees problems as opportunities and that is what has led him to
his success. I want to be successful like him too one day. Although money is not everything, I
just really love money (in a good way, of course 😊). In conclusion, through his go-getter
attitude, Elon Musk inspires me to believe in myself and push my imagination further. (And
also to be successful 😉).
