"2. Early Life
"When I was little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, that the dark just means really the absence of photons in the visible wavelength - 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well its really silly to be afraid of lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that."
- Elon Musk

Growing up in the 70s in South Africa, Musk was the oldest of 3 children and started school one year early. His father was an engineer and his mother was a model and a nutritionist. He wasn't really popular at school. A little bookworm as he said. Reading about space, physics and also red comics. One could say that he was typical nerd. He used to take programming classes, but he was way ahead of his teacher. When he was twelve he developed his own game called Blastar. He 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.

3. Zip2
In 1995, He had two thousand dollars and he was showering in the gym, so he could spare some money. He started to work on a company called Zip2 with his younger brother Kimbal Musk. At that time one of them was on the computer programming and the other one slept. Like that they were changing over day and night. The company developed and marketed an Internet "city guide" for the newspaper publishing industry. Musk obtained contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune and persuaded the board of directors to abandon plans for a merger with CitySearch. While at Zip2, Musk wanted to become CEO. However, none of the board members would allow it. Compaq acquired Zip2 for 307 million USD in cash and 34 million USD in stock options in February 1999. Musk received 22 million USD for his 7 percent share from the sale."