If you don't know the name, I suggest you call someone to help lift that rock you've been living under. This guy is the next generation pioneer. Born in South Africa, moved to Canada, and is now living in California. There are many things about him. This guy launched PayPal which he sold to Ebay for billions. His share was under 200 million.
He then would out to create Tesla. This cost was great to him everything. He's still not finished with Tesla, but now he's on track for Tesla to become a household name. What is Tesla? Short answer is electric car that is something people wanna buy. He has made many mistakes creating this ''light bulb'' but he keeps working at it.
He has also created a rocket ship company which will one day land people on Mars and colonize it. This cost is even greater then his Tesla project. But he's making it work. There have been many failures in this project and only a few successful launches. But he's working on it.
He also bought out a battery company and is taking the battery to heights unlike any other. Now why did he do this? To make the batteries for his Tesla project more affordable for the ''not so rich''. That was the idea but now he's made other advances to this and is expanding on his this project which is a part of Tesla. Therefore it's name is Tesla.
This dude from South Africa is the next generation of pioneers. He disrupted the car companies, he commercialized space discovery, he launched the world's biggest online payment exchange. his name is on government mouths, and his batteries and cars are making this world a greener place.
So who is Elon Musk? He is a man that is home every weekend with his family doing things that families do. While his day job is to save the world.