On April 25, 2022, local time in the United States, this is an important day, Musk finally succeeded in winning Twitter, announcing a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, and the social media platform Twitter Company accepted Elon Musk's acquisition agreement. Musk tweeted on the same day that he hoped the company would continue to provide a platform for people to express different opinions. In addition, Musk also said that he hopes to make Twitter's algorithm public to clarify the specific logic of content recommendation and blocking.
To become the world's richest man and acquire Twitter, thanks to his engineer father, and the continuous upgrading and addition of enterprise technology after he founded the company, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not only a well-known entrepreneur, business leader and consumer often discussed figure, but also may also become the "Thomas Edison of the 21st century".
Musk has started many businesses, some of which are very well-known, some of which may not be well known. Since his teenage years, Musk has loved to invent. Musk spent his early years focusing on software and software companies, but today's experience is focused on consumer products and the vision of mass transportation.
Musk's breakthrough thinking has allowed him to gain a net worth of about $13.5 billion. Here are ten of Musk's world-changing inventions by CNBC: Let's take a look at what technologies the corporate giant invented to change the world.
First: Tesla electric vehicles
Nowadays, when it comes to Musk, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is Tesla. Over the past two and a half years, the stock price of the listed electric vehicle maker has grown by nearly 700%. Although Tesla's third-quarter results fell short of Wall Street expectations, the company still promised that the total number of electric vehicles sold this year will exceed 50,000.
Demand for Tesla electric vehicles, especially the Model 3, which will be launched next year, will remain very strong. Compared to previous generations of expensive products, the Model 3 starts at just $35,000 and can travel 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) on a charge. At present, the biggest headache for Tesla is not the lack of demand, but the inability of production capacity to meet market demand. That's why Tesla is issuing $500 million in shares for capital expenditures.
Second: SpaceX and Falcon
Musk's space company SpaceX may be as famous as Tesla. Founded in 2002, SpaceX aims to reduce the cost of human space transportation and eventually send humans to Mars. The Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets developed by the company are reusable rockets. Since its inception, SpaceX has delivered six cargoes to the International Space Station and has been contracted by NASA to develop spacecraft that transport astronauts to and back to the International Space Station.
SpaceX, which is still privately owned, suffered a setback this year, with a Falcon 9 rocket exploding after it was ignited. Musk has said that SpaceX has been grounded after the explosion and has focused on redesigning the rocket parts that led to the launch failure.
Third: X.com electronic payment company (predecessor of PayPal)
Musk co-founded a company called X.com in 1999. The company specializes in financial and email payment services. A year later, X.com merged with Conffinity and adopted the new name PayPal. PayPal's thriving presence in the mobile payment space has caught the attention of e-commerce giant eBay. Eventually, eBay acquired PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion in cash. Musk collected $165 million in the deal.
Fourth: Hyperloop
Musk's latest idea is perhaps his biggest ambition. Musk proposed the hyperloop concept in 2013. It is a revolutionary mode of transportation. According to Musk's vision, engineers will build fixed vacuum pipes on the ground that act like railway tracks, and place "capsule" cockpits in the pipes.
Hyperloop can reach a top speed of 800 miles per hour (about 1450 kilometers) per hour and consumes very low electricity. Hyperloop concepts still have a long way to go before they become a reality. According to the plan, the hyperloop project will begin trials next year, starting with a 5-mile vacuum pipe in California. The biggest obstacle to the hyperloop project at present is whether the cost and technology of tucheng can become a reality.
Fifth: Zip2 in a guide to tier cities
Zip2 was musk's first web software company founded with his brother. When they started the company, they took out loans from their own fathers with the goal of helping the newspaper industry provide "city guides" to internet users. After the merger with CitySearch collapsed, Zip2 was acquired by Compaq Computer in 1999 for $307 million. Musk personally received $22 million.
Sixth: SolarCity, an American photovoltaic power generation operator
Musk and his cousins co-founded SolarCity in 2006, which is now the nation's second-largest PV operator. Last fiscal quarter, SolarCity's revenue was $102.8 million. SolarCity's current operations are primarily focused on California and have installed equipment in selected areas across 14 states.
SolarCity is currently developing storage systems that allow users to use the electricity obtained during the day through photovoltaic installations at night. SolarCity is also working with Tesla to develop free battery-powered stations for Tesla users to recharge on The 101 from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Seventh: electric aircraft
Musk has not yet officially launched the project. But at the MIT Centennial Symposium last year, Musk said he was "playing" with the concept.
Eighth: Internet telephony
Dating back to 1997, Musk had the idea of allowing computers to dial landlines (he patented the idea in 2001). But Musk's vision is a little simpler than Skype, which is commonly used by today's users. According to Musk's vision, users first need to click on a company's online contact information, and then they can be directed to the company's landline through the call center.
Ninth: Search for a specific location
In the early days of the Development of the Internet, it was not as simple as it is now to find nearby merchants on the Internet. But in 1998, Musk already had this idea. His idea at the time was to create a system that would initially search for results around the user and then automatically expand the field until the user found a satisfactory answer.
Tenth: The video game Blastar
Musk wrote a game called Blastar when he was 12 years old. Even more surprising, he sold the game to a magazine for $500.
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