Visionary Elon Musk is a man with many plans.

Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, talks with Chris Anderson from TED about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.

Elon Musk was born June 28, 1971 in South Africa. He is a Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. Elon Musk is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and a cofounder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and Zip2. Elon Musk has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop. Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School before graduating from Pretoria Boys High School and moving to Canada in 1988 at age 17, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. He did so before his South African military service, reasoning that it would be easier to emigrate to the United States from Canada than from South Africa. At age 19, Musk was accepted into Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario for undergraduate study, and in 1992, after spending two years at Queen’s University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he eventually received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School. Elon Musk stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor’s degree. In 1995, age 24, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in Applied physics at Stanford, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space. In 2002, he became an American citizen

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