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and highlights her modeling adventures and nutrition advice with her catchphrase hashtag ‘justgettingstarted.’
Maye Haldeman, center, 7 years old with her siblings and parents next to their plane in Pretoria, South Africa.“My parents were entrepreneurs, they ran their own business and my brothers and sisters and I started working when we were about 8 years of age,” says Musk. “We would do their monthly bulletins and photocopy newsletters, and then put the stamps on the envelopes.”
“Elon had his first computer program published at 12,” says Maye. “He brought it to me and I showed it to the computer science students and they said to me, 'Oh my gosh. He's 12-years-old and he's doing these shortcuts in programming? How does he even know this kind of thing?'" Trusting his instincts, Musk bought Elon a one-way ticket, gave him some money to survive on, and the name of a cousin who lived on a farm in Saskatchewan. Three weeks after getting his Canadian passport, Elon touched down at Montreal airport and took a Greyhound bus to the farm in Swift Current. His brother Kimbal and sister Tosca soon wanted to follow suit.
“When I wasn't working, I was marketing myself," says Musk."Sending out newsletters, raffles, contacting the TV stations, the radio stations. Most said no or just ignored me, but that's what happens. But then it slowly started changing.” When Elon and Kimbal graduated and moved to Silicon Valley, California, to start the business mapping technology company Zip2, Musk flew from eastern Canada to the west coast of the U.S. every 6-weeks to visit her boys. She says she gave them $10,000, all of her savings from her work in Toronto, to keep Zip2 going, and helped out financially where she could.
In the summer of 1996, Musk moved to San Francisco to be closer to her family and establish her nutrition practice in the U.S. At her 50birthday party, she recalls Kimbal and Elon presenting her with a wooden house and car, and telling her that one day they would buy her real-life versions of those things. In 1999, Compaq purchased Zip2 for $307-million, and her sons stayed true to their word to buy their mom a home.
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