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Elon Musk hails from South Africa, specifically the city of Pretoria. He is the son of an electrical engineer and a model. In addition, he is the grandson of adventurers who flew to remote unexplored desert areas for vacations.
1. Elon first appeared in the media in 1984 as a 12-year-old. PC and Office Technology magazine published an article about him and his game Blastar. He was awarded a $500 prize for it.
2. Musk was a weirdo. But at the same time a very talented and smart kid. Relatively small for his age.
3. He was bullied at school.
4. He read so much that he was running out of books, so he started reading encyclopedias.
5. He invested his youth in education. He thus laid the foundations of his vast knowledge and intellectual superiority.
6. People close to him recall that even as a young boy he used to literally get stuck. He went into a kind of trance. He would look into the unknown and think.
7. Musk's genius stems from his ability to imagine difficult problems and visualise solutions.
8. Elon comes from a loving family, but his relationship with his father is very strange and damaged.
9. His parents divorced and his father Errol remarried and had two daughters, so Musk gained two half-sisters in addition to his two siblings Kimbal and Tosca.
10. His first computer was a Commodore VIC -20, which had 5 kB of memory.
11. The computer also came with a BASIC programming manual. The assumption was that a normal user would need about 6 months to go through all the functions. Elon went through it in 3 days.
12. At the age of seventeen, Musk left South Africa for Canada to avoid compulsory military service.
13. Elon and his brother Kimball searched the newspaper for interesting people they would like to meet. They tried to call them and get them to lunch so they could talk to them.
On the 14th, Elon landed a summer internship at the Bank of Nova Scotia in this way, where he announced himself to the manager's daughter.
15. The second sentence out of Elon's mouth that he ever said to Menagerie's daughter was: I often think of electric cars. Are you thinking about electric cars too?
16. In 1992 he transferred from Queens University of Ontario to the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated there with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics along with a Bachelor of Science in Physics.
17. At school, he started working on solar energy, and wrote a thesis on it called The importance of using solar energy.
18. Musk has the head of a scientist and an entrepreneur on one neck.
19. In 1995, the Musk brothers founded Zip2. They merged the golden pages and GPS maps to create a primitive version of Google maps ️ with contacts to various businesses and companies in the area.
20. In 1999, it was sold for 307 million to Compaq. Musk walked away from that deal with $22 million. The 28-year-old programmer suddenly became an Internet millionaire.
21. Most of the money Musk made he put into his next project - X.com. It was the world's first electronic banking system.
22. He wants to make humans into a multiplanetary species that, in the event of a catastrophe on one world, will still have one backup.
23. In 2002, he founded his next company, this time all his own, SpaceX.
24 His employees often refer to him not as a capitalist entrepreneur, but rather as a general who leads them to a higher goal.
25. His first rocket was called Falcon 1 - Musk's homage to the Star Wars movies and the Millennium Falcon. It was supposed to be able to carry a 600kg payload for $6.9 million.
26. The first successful Falcon 1 did not fly into space until 2008. As is the way with rockets, Falcon 1 failed to get into orbit on its first attempt. The first successful launch was preceded by 3 unsuccessful ones.
27. His most recent accomplishment is none other than getting American astronauts to the International Space Station. It was the first private space mission with a live crew.
28. Musk did not invent electric cars, but contributed 10,000 of the $100,000 that Tesla inventor and engineer JB Straubel needed for his project.
29. He poured $6.5 million into Tesla, making him its largest shareholder and chairman of the board.
30. The first project was called the Tesla Roadster On January 27, 2005, the first car saw the light of day, assembled by 18 madmen from a completely unknown company that hadn't sold a single bolt up to that point. Musk rode it and poured another 9 million into Tesla.
31. He also appeared in the film Iron Man 2.
32. The financial problems were solved out of the blue by NASA, which gave SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to resupply the International Space Station.
33. Musk has begun to thrive after years of misery. Tesla's stock has climbed above $160 and the market has valued the company at roughly $20 billion. He was able to strike strategic partnerships with Toyota and Germany's Daimler, which makes the Smarts.
34. People weren't rushing to buy the Model S. So Tesla employees sold 4,900 cars at Elon's suggestion.
35. The Tesla car battery factory in Nevada was so huge that it could fit 979 Boeing airplanes.
36. According to Ben Horowitz and his book That heavy on the heavy stuff, There are two types of managers - peacekeepers and war managers.
37. Musk has so far spent the vast majority of his business extinguishing self-inflicted crises. To his credit, however, he is trying to do so for the good of humanity.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6gD6r3-cw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfiRd4Y5z_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUU3-KQYck
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