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On February 9, local time in the United States, "undergraduate academician" Elon Musk was born.
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On February 9, local time in the United States, John Anderson, chairman of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), announced the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, and Elon Reeve Musk, founder of the American Space Exploration Technology Company and CEO of Tesla, was included in the list.
Screenshot of the NAE website
After the news was released, Musk retweeted "Much appreciated!" on social media. ”。 Meanwhile, FORBES's "Global Real-Time Billionaires List" shows that 50-year-old Musk is the world's richest man with a fortune of $238.6 billion.
FORBES "Global Real-Time Billionaires" ranking
Musk retweeted the NAE Tweet article in thanks
The US media once described Musk as "the most successful and important entrepreneur in the world". So far, Musk is not only the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, but also the CEO and chief designer of the electric car company Tesla, the founder of the underground tunnel network company Boring Company, the co-founder of the brain-computer interface company Neuralink, and the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, known as the live-action version of Iron Man.
Musk was named Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year. The magazine's editor-in-chief commented on Musk: "He is reshaping life on Earth, and possibly life beyond Earth. ”
The election of "Academician Ma" has triggered a heated discussion among the majority of netizens, and one voice is that there is no engineering degree, so why can he be elected as an academician of the Academy of Engineering? Another view is that being elected as an academician of the National Academy of Engineering with a bachelor's degree can be regarded as a real strength faction.
In fact, Musk is not a scumbag, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, won a double degree in economics and physics during his undergraduate degree, and was later admitted to the Doctor of Materials Science program at Stanford University. The appearance of the giant seems to be inherently destined to be different, similar to the experience of a new generation of international leaders such as Bill Gates and Jobs, and the pretentious Musk chose to drop out of school after only two days of enrollment and turned to Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.
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In 1995, after Musk dropped out of school, he and his brother started Zip2, a company that developed online content publishing software for news organizations, with a random angel investment from a small Silicon Valley group, and the New York Times and The Chicago Post were customers of the Musk brothers. In 1999, U.S. computer maker Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options, and The 28-year-old Musk made a profit of $22 million in the acquisition. In March of the same year, Elon Musk invested $10 million to start X.com, an online financial services and email payments business with two partners from Silicon Valley.
In 2000, to address competition in the online quick transfer business, Musk merged X.com with another Conffinity company, and the new company was renamed PayPal (similar to Alipay) in February of the following year. Two years later, PayPal was wholly owned by the world's largest e-commerce giant at the time, eBay, for $1.5 billion, musk was the largest shareholder in PayPal, with an 11.7% stake, of which $165 million was acquired. It is worth noting that just four months before PayPal was acquired, Musk founded Space X, began to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launches, and planned to achieve Mars colonization in the future.
In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, founded by Martin Eberhard, who served as chairman. In 2005, musk, who was under the age of 40, was worth more than $300 million, while realizing three ideals in the fields of the Internet, clean energy and space.
In June 2010, Tesla was listed on the NASDAQ and successfully completed its IPO, raising a net proceeds of approximately $184 million. A few days before the listing, the New York Times had revealed that Musk was on the verge of bankruptcy, and after the listing, Musk earned $630 million on his books. Tesla became the first U.S. automaker to go public since Ford's IPO in 1956, and the only independent manufacturer of all-electric vehicles to go public in the United States.
In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company, and later launched the Open Table of artificial intelligence AI, which has now played a role in animal experiments. At the end of 2016, Musk founded Boring, a rail transit company dedicated to solving the problem of ground congestion. At the end of November 2016, Tesla completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity, enabling it to provide comprehensive solar services from system design, installation, financing, and construction supervision.
On March 2, 2019, the manned version of the "Dragon Spacecraft" carrying the "Falcon 9" rocket successfully lifted off for the first unmanned test flight and successfully completed the docking with the International Space Station. SpaceX became the fourth agency to launch a manned spacecraft after the Russian, U.S. and Chinese space agencies.
On December 8, 2010, spaceX developed the Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the "Dragon Spacecraft" into Earth orbit, which is the first spacecraft in the history of the world to be launched into space by a private company and can successfully turn back, and the entire space community is shaken.
On August 20, 2020, the U.S. stock market closed, Tesla's stock price soared, closing at $2001.83 per share, another record high, Musk's wealth soared, becoming the world's fourth richest man.
On January 9, 2021, Musk became the world's new richest man with $189.7 billion in personal assets. In October, forbes real-time rich list data showed that Musk became the first person in history to break $300 billion. In December, Neuralink, a neurotechnology company founded by Musk, announced that it would conduct human trials in 2022 to test the performance of its human brain chip, which is currently awaiting approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On February 8, local time in the United States, US President Biden recognized Tesla for the first time as the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the United States, which came from the official certification and also made the founder Musk proud of the spring breeze. Previously, Musk has repeatedly complained that Tesla has been ignored by the US authorities, and in January this year, he also commented under the Twitter video of Biden releasing a conversation with General Motors: "T begins, A ends, there is an ESL in the middle" (connected to TESLA Tesla), and then angrily accuses Biden of comparing it to a "stupid and bad clown". Later, Musk tweeted again: "For unknown reasons, the president of the United States cannot say the word 'Tesla'. ”
Obviously, whether it is Tesla, a new energy vehicle in a period of rapid growth, or Musk, a silicon valley genius, the past, present and future are things that the US government cannot ignore.
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Founded in December 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is one of the four national academic institutions in the United States (the other three are: the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NaE academicians are mainly selected for "outstanding contribution to engineering research, practice or education", "complete pioneering work in emerging or developing technological fields, make significant progress in traditional fields, and develop innovative methods of engineering education", and the election process of each NAE academician lasts one year.
A total of 111 new academicians and 22 international academicians were selected, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Gray Denise, president of LG Energy Solutions Michigan, and McDonald John, head of GE's smart grid business. In addition, Dr. Zhang Hongjiang, Chairman of Zhiyuan Research Institute, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fang Daining of Beijing Institute of Technology, Professor Cao Jian of Northwest University, Liu Bin of the National University of Singapore, Yan Yushan of the University of Delaware, Yang Taiying of Gilead Sciences, Lin Zhaoxin of Boeing Company of the United States, Cai Kequan of National Taiwan University and other Chinese scholars were also selected as foreign academicians. So far, the total number of NAE members has reached 2388, and the number of international members has reached 310.
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