Elon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla but the path to getting there was not always easy. Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa. Musk?s dad has said in the past that Musk was always an ?introvert thinker.? Simply at the age of 12 Musk sold a game called ?Blastar? to a computer magazine for $500. Although Musk had a brilliant mind he often was bullied in school, once being hospitalized. Yet later on he graduated with degrees in physics and economics and began his entrepreneur career.