

It was the first product Musk ever sold he reportedly called it a “trivial game… but better than Flappy Bird.” He once took a job as a boiler room cleaner at a lumber mill.Īfter leaving South Africa in 1988, Musk spent time working a series of odd jobs around Canada. He received $500 when the source code for the BASIC-based game was published in South African magazine PC and Office Technology. Musk had been interested in computers from an early age, and taught himself programming starting at 9-years-old. It was a space-themed game called Blastar, where the objective was to destroy an alien ship filled with weapons of mass destruction.
