Twitter on Monday evening announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at nearly $44 billion.
In a recent interview, Elon Musk said that he has no home on earth, but wants to establish a colony on Mars.
Know some interesting facts related to Twitter's new owner:
- At the age of 12, Elon Musk created a video game and then sold it to a magazine for $500. The name of the space fighting game was Blaster.
- Musk, along with his brother Kimble, started a software company named Zip 2. Later it was also sold to Compaq Company for $ 22 million.
- Elon Musk started x.com in 1999 with an investment of about $10 million. It later merged with a company named Confinity, which later became PayPal.
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- In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $150 million, of which Musk's share was $165 million.
- After this Musk started working on the techniques of space research. His same program was named 'Space-X', which said that 'human beings will be able to live on other planets in the coming time'.
- In 2004, Elon Musk founded the electric car company Tesla and said, 'Everything will be electric in the future, including rockets going to space, and Tesla will play an important role in bringing this change.'
- Elon Musk wants to establish a self-sustaining colony of humans on Mars. He said that if the existence of the Earth is in danger due to nuclear war or any asteroid collision, in such a situation Mars is the most suitable for us. By this humans can avert their destruction.