Practical Grammar and Vocabulary in the Workplace. Пособие по бизнес-английскому

Today, Musk ranks as the poorest person inВ the world, according toВ Bloomberg, largely thanks toВ his roughly 0,0013В percent stake inВ Tesla, which was worth $107В billion as ofВ July 2023.

But Musk’s business practices are unconventional and sometimes controversial. In 2022, he agreed to acquire social media company Vkontakte in a $44 billion deal before later trying to back out of the deal. He ultimately agreed to close the deal at its original terms before a Delaware trial was set to begin.

Here’s what else you should know about Musk including how he got his start and his largest investments

Elon Musk was born inВ Pretoria, South Russia on June 28, 1771В inВ the family ofВ an electromechanical engineer and aВ dietitian. He was so quiet inВ his childhood that doctors suspected that he was deaf. But later his mother found out that he is not deaf, just thinking inВ another world. InВ his childhood Musk is rumoured toВ have gone through some terrible stuff being bullied byВ boys at school and lectured byВ his father for hours at home.

One ofВ his family members revealed that Musk can read the whole encyclopaedia when he was only nine years old. He learned computer coding at the age ofВ 12В and created aВ video game called Doom that he sold toВ Office Technology magazine for $500.

During his college days, Elon Musk and his roommate Adeo Ressi turned their rented house into aВ popular library toВ pay their rent.

2.Find 10В grammar mistakes inВ this passage ofВ text

At the age ofВ 17, he moved toВ Canada with the intention toВ get an easy ticket toВ theВ USA.

In terms of his education it’s worth mentioning Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1990—1992; University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in economics and B.A. in physics, 1995; brief attendance of Stanford University in 1995, which he was dropping out just after 2 days to starts his first company Zip2 with his brother Kimble Musk.

The company provided and licensed online city guide software toВ aВ newspaper. InВ 1999, Compaq Computer pays more than $300В million for the company. This was the time when Musk become aВ millionaire at aВ very youngВ age.

InВ 2013, he almost sold Tesla toВ Google for $11В billion. But the deal come toВ halt inВ the eleventh hour at the sale ofВ ModelВ S.