New Delhi: After the success of trying to acquire Twitter, Elon Musk has added another achievement to his list of successes. This American billionaire made a deal to buy Twitter at a price of $ 54.20 per share. Musk has done many such works before this too, due to which his name became a topic of discussion around the world. He has revolutionized the car industry with his Tesla electric car company, founded in 2003, and a company that sends private rockets into space. However, some of his works spark outrage among idealists and the personal life of this billionaire tech visionary celebrity is also not free from controversies.
It is also feared that Elon Musk will try to promote his political views, business practices, and his views on disputes with individuals under his guise as well as taking over the social media company Twitter. Musk likes to call himself a liberal and a supporter of free speech. While some people call him right-wing. His critics describe him as an autocrat and accuse him of threatening his opponents.
Musk works on his own terms
Musk has opened a ‘Gigafactory’ of Tesla in Texas just a month ago. He had a dispute with California officials over the closure of Tesla’s plant to prevent the spread of Kovid-19. After this, Musk decided to remove his factory from California. Much more is recorded in Musk’s account. His space company SpaceX has recently succeeded in sending the first completely private mission to the International Space Station.
Musk’s old relationship with controversies
But Musk has a long history of controversies as well. His car company Tesla has faced many lawsuits. These include allegations ranging from discrimination against black employees to sexual harassment. Apart from this, controversies related to his business methods and personal life have also been making headlines continuously. They have been married thrice and divorced. He has seven children. In a way, Elon Musk has become one of the most talked-about people of this time. The journey to the heights at which Musk has reached today has been full of obstacles. Nevertheless, Musk has successfully faced every obstacle.
Leave every obstacle behind
Born in Pretoria on June 28, 1971, the son of an engineer father and a Canadian-born model mother, Musk left South Africa as a teenager to attend Queen’s University in Ontario. He transferred two years later to the University of Pennsylvania and earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and business. Musk later dropped plans to study at Stanford University. Instead, he started a company called Zip2. This company created online publication software for the media industry. Elon Musk became a millionaire at the age of 30. When he sold Zip2 to US computer maker Compaq in 1999 for over $300 million.
Musk created the next company X.com which merged with PayPal. It was later bought by online payments firm eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. After leaving PayPal, Elon Musk started a series of more ambitious companies. He founded SpaceX in 2002. He is now its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. In 2004, Musk created the electric car company Tesla, of which he became the president. Musk has citizenship in the US, Canada, and South Africa. Forbes estimates that his current net worth is $266 billion.
SpaceX reached the sky of success
After some initial mishaps and lapses, SpaceX succeeded in developing the technology to launch and land rockets on solid ground and ocean platforms. This paved the way for the rocket to be used multiple times. Due to this, it will be possible to make space travel affordable. SpaceX also achieved success in the field of space tourism and sent space tourists to space. Musk is working on building an ultra-fast ‘Hyperloop’ rail transport system that will make people travel at supersonic speeds. Musk’s dreams are not only here, but he also wants to build a colony of humans on Mars. SpaceX is developing a prototype rocket ‘Starship’. In which it will be able to carry crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and planets beyond.
As soon as he became the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk said that he will bring many changes in it. At the same time, he has said that he will also take strict action against fake accounts. Musk issued a statement after the deal was announced. “Free speech is the cornerstone of any democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where important matters for the future of humanity are debated,” he said.
Emphasis will be on bringing new features
Elon Musk further said in the statement, ‘I will make Twitter better than before. New features will be brought in it. This will increase the confidence of the people. Twitter has tremendous potential. I look forward to working with the company and users to unlock it.
Musk’s feud with Twitter
Let us tell you that Elon Musk himself has not stayed away from controversies on Twitter. He has around 80 million followers. In the year 2018, the US Financial Regulator with his tweets on Tesla investors was accused of misleading me. Musk constantly keeps his words on Twitter. Recently, he talked about buying debt-ridden Sri Lanka. “I hope even my worst critics stay on Twitter because that’s what freedom of expression means,” he wrote hours before the deal was announced.
