Elon Musk: A Chronological Biography
Elon Musk: A Chronological Biography of Constraint, Control, and Decay Musk Biography TOC 1. Origins: Pretoria, Family, and Early Formation 1.1 Childhood in South Africa 1.2 Books, computers, and isolation 1.3 Family conflict and psychological hardening 1.4 Early technical obsession 1.5 Leaving South Africa 2. Migration and Reinvention 2.1 Canada as escape route 2.2 Queen’s University and first networks 2.3 University of Pennsylvania 2.4 Physics, economics, and ambition 2.5 Silicon Valley arrival 3. Zip2: First Company, First Exit 3.1 Building local business software for newspapers 3.2 Working with Kimbal Musk 3.3 Investor pressure and loss of control 3.4 Compaq acquisition 3.5 Lessons: speed, control, and founder vulnerability 4. X.com and PayPal: Money, Conflict, and the Control Wound 4.1 Founding X.com 4.2 Merger with Confinity 4.3 PayPal’s internal war 4.4 Musk removed as CEO 4.5 eBay sale 4.6 The lasting obsession with X, payments, identity, and platform control 5. SpaceX Begins: ...