Elon Musk

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Does Elon Musk smoke?: Yes Elon Musk Smoking.Does Elon Musk drink alcohol?: Yes Elon Musk Drinking Alcohol.He has his roots in America, Canada, South Africa and also has Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.At the age of 10, Elon started teaching himself computer programming after developing an interest in the Commodore VIC-20 (computer).He sold his first video game, Blastar to PC and Office Technology (a magazine) for $500. He was just 12 years old at that time.In his childhood, he was deeply inspired by Isaac Asimovs book, Foundation series..Elon had a very dreadful childhood as he was bullied in his school. Once, he even got hospitalized after a group of boys beat him until he became unconscious and threw him down a flight of stairs.Just before his 18th birthday, Elon moved to Canada against his fathers will. His father wanted Elon to complete his graduation from Pretoria itself but Elon chose to flee since he believed that it was easier to get to the United States from Canada.In 1995, after raising funds from a small group of angel investors, Elon and his brother, Kimbal, founded Zip2 (a web software company). Elon wanted to become the CEO of Zip2 but was not allowed by the other members of the board. However, Zip2 was later acquired by Compaq in 1999.In 1999. Elon co-founded an e-mail payment and online financial services company, X.com. A year later, X.com merged with Confinity, which provided a money-transfer service called, PayPal. In 2000, He was knocked out from his position of CEO because of some disagreement with the allied party. Elon was the largest shareholder of X.com before it was acquired by eBay in 2002.