Only 14 years after making his first millions, Elon Musk is one of the most influential businessmen alive today. He's involved with more industries than your average person has hobbies.Rather than use the wealth he's attained for leisure, Musk has repeatedly shown that he would prefer to spend his money on turning his passion projects into companies that change the world.
This year alone, Elon Musk unveiled a concept for high-speed travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco, showed off a rocket the size of a ten-story building taking off and landing vertically, and bought a famous car from the James Bond films so he could personally convert it into a submarine.
-Like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk began programming at an early age. Unlike Facebook's founder, he taught himself — and sold the code for his first video game for $500 at age 12.--That isn't to say education wasn't important for Musk: He earned Bachelors degrees in both business and physics from the University of Pennsylvania before venturing into the world of startups.--His first big success came in 1999 when Compaq bought Zip2, an Internet company Musk founded with his brother, in a deal that earned him a cool $22 million.-
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