Timeline: Elon Musk's Plan for Humanity

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Elon Musk, serial entrepreneur, tech billionaire and self-confessed nerd, once lived in a rented office in California and showered at the local YMCA. Now the co-founder of Paypal, CEO of Tesla Motors, founder of SpaceX and investor in OpenAI is worth $14.1 million according to Forbes.

It has changed your life in the process and is shaping all of our futures, whether we realize it or not. He also happens to be CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout’s hero.

“He’s a dreamer of dreams,” he says. “What makes Elon Musk different is that he doesn’t just have these crazy dreams, he’s making them come true.”

So what does Musk have in store for us?

Scroll through the timeline above and watch the video below to discover more about Lu Stout’s inspiration.