Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, and investor. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors; chairman of SolarCity, co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder ofPayPal. Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming throughsustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by "making life multiplanetary"by setting up a human colony on mars  (Wikipedia).