Elon Musk is the richest person in the world whose life story is chronicled in the document. He was born in South Africa to a Canadian mother and South African father, then moved to Canada where he established his first company zip2, which he later sold to help found x.com, now known as PayPal after its acquisition by eBay. Driven by his dreams of human space travel, Musk went on to found SpaceX which specializes in space sciences and is working on a space internet project to connect the world through satellites.