Elon Musk is the second entrepreneur in silicon valley who created three companies with a market cap of $1 billion or more with PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX.
Elon Musk rosed from being bullied to becoming the richest billionaire. Being the Firstborn of a South African father and a Canadian mother who got divorced when he was 9 by the way. He is always interested in books. His dad said, “he used to read books even while he was at a party.” He taught himself programming and developed a game at the age of 12 and sold it to a company for a price of $500.”
he finished his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, earning degrees in physics and economics, he started a Ph.D programme in Applied Physics at Stanford University which is very prestigious but he dropped out just after two days to start a new company. He and his brother borrowed $28000 from their father and launched a company called Zip2. To save rent and other expenses he used to sleep in his company office and took showers in a near gym. Four years later they sold their company to Compaq for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock, this is how Elon Musk gets his start he received $22 million for his 7% stake from the sale.
Later he started another company called X.com and it merged with its competitor and turned into PayPal where he got fired as CEO. Later eBay acquired it for $1.5 billion. This is where Elon Musk got rich, he got $165 million from the deal.
Elon Musk is the Founded SpaceX, The Boring Company, CEO of Tesla Motors, CEO of Neuralink, Chairman of SolarCity and Co-chairman of OpenAI. From an Immigrant to Advisor of the US President. From failure to Success. Now Elon Musk Net Worth is $174.1 billion.
He never gives up on anything. he once said
“My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.” Japanese samurais won’t let their enemies kill them if they can’t win a battle they will kill themselves with their blade.
This “never give up attitude” brought him immeasurable success. Not only that but also he is a hard worker, He works 80-100 hours a week. This 49-year-old Business Magnet is the partial inspiration for the movie character “Iron Man” played by Robert Downey Jr. He is a stutterer, he stutters a lot while he is speaking, but the crowd usually laughs and waited for him to speak. If you’re successful, people will ignore your shortcomings.
