Elon Musk topped the Forbes Rich List on Jan. 9. tesla CEO Elon Musk’s personal net worth reached $189.7 billion, surpassing Amazon CEO Bezos to become the richest man in the world, according to Forbes’ real-Time rich list. But he didn’t have a smooth road to entrepreneurship, nearly going bankrupt when he was 46, and three years later he finally became the richest man in the world.
The recent “Forbes” is very lively, and at one point there was a famous scene of “God’s fight”.
Two billionaires: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Taking turns to grab the head list, the stock price behind them also followed up and up and up.
Speaking of Elon Musk (Elon Musk), I believe quite a few people know.
Even if you don’t know, more or less have heard that he wants to build a rocket and immigrate to Mars, right?
But this master, really did not say big words.
He created his own rocket company – Space X, the plan will be on the agenda from next year.
Now he has in his hands, respectively, valued at 44 billion SpaceX
And more than 800 billion dollars worth of Tesla, so he instantly became the world’s richest man.
And he himself just lightly said “I’m going back to work”.
I was going to say that he was Versailles, but then I thought, this sentence on him seems to have no problem.
As a workaholic who works more than 100 hours a week, maybe he really doesn’t need this title.
After all, the earth can not accommodate his world, his dream is to retire on Mars ah!
How about that? Do you think this big brother has a strange idea, but also a little strange?
I will talk to you about this, always want to go to the alien Life of the “Silicon Valley Iron Man” – Elon Musk.
01.
-The hero boy grows up –
The best people can see the possibilities of the future from an early age.
That’s the case with Musk, the “other kid in the Family” according to his Parents.
At the age of 11, Elon Musk, who is serious about electronics
For example, he could read Encyclopedia Britannica at the age of 8 and taught himself programming at the age of 10.
After reading for more than 10 hours a day for a long time, he was able to design games using code at the age of 12.
And accidentally won a $500 award to be in the newspaper.
And that was in 1983. That’s $3000!
That’s enough to buy 30 four-wheel drive cars, think about it ~
12-year-old Elon Musk, the first time in the media, he wrote the source code of a video game published in a local magazine in South Africa.
He was the pride of his parents, the bully in the eyes of his classmates, and the source of pain for the next-door neighbor’s children.
Anyway, Musk relied on his “strongest brain”.
He went all the way to Stanford University to further his studies for his PhD.
Maybe it’s the rebellious teenage years, a few days into Stanford.
He wanted to start his own business.
If it were anyone else, his dad might have broken his legs, but Musk was different.
He was a legendary teenager who could earn $500 from code at the age of 12.
02.
-He became a billionaire by starting his own business four times in a row.
Musk called his brother and together they developed an Internet project called Zip2.
Why is it called an Internet project?
Because this project is somewhat similar to the current public review + map + 58 city.
The idea is very forward thinking, right?
This is a platform that combines Yelp and Google Maps together, mainly for the newspaper industry to find customers to sell.
Musk and his brother with his mother at the company’s founding celebration in 1996
Four years later, the project was acquired, and as the owner, Musk, at the age of 28
Musk was paid $22 million and began to join the ranks of multimillionaires.
The following year, Musk went on to start a second business, co-founding X.com.
Later, the company was officially renamed Paypal and began to serve the direction of private financial business.
2 years later, this product, again for $ 1.5 billion was acquired by Ebay (Ebay).
The 31-year-old Musk, share of $ 165 million, stepped into the circle of billionaires.
“The purpose of the increase in his own wealth is to hope that humanity can accelerate, towards space civilization.”
In June of the same year, Musk finally began his childhood dream of putting into practice his plan to go to Mars.
Founded the U.S. space exploration technology company Space X, and served as CEO and chief technology officer.
In fact, there is an episode in the middle, at the beginning, he wanted to find the Russians to help build the rocket.
But at that time, other people’s technology is too bullish, the attitude is very arrogant, simply do not put him in the eyes, which makes him feel very angry.
Ordinary people angry may be and the other party dry fight, but the schoolmaster Musk different.
I just want to use technology with you in a fair, just and open way to compete with each other.
Let you lose the heart and soul, which has Space X.
Space X invited the band to celebrate their first office space in 2002
Soon, the time came in 2004.
Musk invested 6.3 million to become the CEO of Tesla and started the development to the electric car field.
For the electric car, Musk always believed that it had an unlimited future and he wanted to be the first to eat the crab.
03.
-The secret of success, is to die to the end-
Money burns fast, like a tornado, sweeping everything.
Spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build the Falcon rocket, 3 attempts to launch liftoff, all failed.
On the 3rd launch, Musk also installed 3 artificial satellites provided by NASA, the
and the ashes of 208 space enthusiasts, one of whom was also an Apollo astronaut that year.
His money is only enough to support the cost of 3 launches, this time really with the mentality of the last attempt.
The good thing is that this time it did not explode in place and successfully lifted off.
But when the rocket’s two engines were separated, a “tailspin” occurred and it failed again.
Musk completely out of funds, rocket technology has not reached, by the people of the world ridicule and criticism.
“This guy doesn’t know anything about space, he’s messing with the country.”
In retrospect, Musk said that it was a “dark moment” in his life.
He even cried with his engineers many times and needed to take a lot of sleeping pills every day to sleep.
In life, he also divorced his first wife.
Emotions were also very unstable, often waking up in the middle of the night.
Perhaps the sky is the limit and someone saw how persistent he was.
Decided to fund 100 million, so that he could carry on the water and have another go.
At that time, Musk thought to himself that if he still failed this time, he would really be completely finished.
The 4th time the rocket was launched, Musk asked his employees to turn on the live broadcast.
Let the whole world see the launch of this rocket, because it is very likely to be the last.
But friends around him advised him not to try, it was too humiliating.
Perhaps it is this gritted teeth forward, holding to death, indomitable stubbornness.
This Falcon 1 rocket very give face.
All the way to ride the wind and waves, to live up to expectations, successfully entered the Earth’s orbit.
This time, Musk finally succeeded!
Everyone in the room was cheering and hugging, and Musk’s phone rang.
NASA decided to place an order for $1.5 billion worth of supplies to Space X for transportation.
Musk, who had experienced the end of his ammunition, rose from the dead again and became a miracle.
The dreamer who dared to break with tradition and build a kingdom for his ideals.
The “impossible”, “can’t do”, “can’t do” things one by one to achieve.
And step by step, it penetrates into daily life and brings change to everyone.
“I don’t like to follow the trend or speculate, I’m not an investor.
I like to take technologies that are really important and valuable for the future and make them a reality in some way.”
04.
-Dying on Mars is a cool thing-
Space X’s spaceflight business today is in full swing.
A total of 23 launches have taken place throughout 2020, making it the busiest year for Falcon rocket launches.
The Starlink program, which has now launched more than 1,000 satellites, too
and is officially operational in the Northwest U.S. and Canada.
The cost is $99 per month, and Internet speeds exceed 95 percent of U.S. broadband speeds.
In the future, it will provide increased Internet speeds for the entire planet.
Next is the business of transporting astronauts, after successfully sending 2 NASA astronauts to the International Space Station last year.
Astronauts Robert Bacon (left) and Douglas Hurley (right)
SpaceX reached the achievement of sending people to the sky for the first time as a private company.
and successfully recovered the first stage thruster, opening the era of commercial manned aviation.
In 2022, Musk will officially launch the Mars colonization program.
The project code name is “super large rocket” (BFR).
Musk said: is expected to be before 2050, will be 1 million people all sent to Mars, life.
Sounds very excited, feel that the future is really possible to achieve, after all, he is really a “technology superhero”!
The New York Times called him “the world’s most successful and important entrepreneur”.
When he was 14 years old, Musk stated his mission for the rest of his life: “We should aspire to increase human self-awareness so that we can better understand what the problems are. The only thing that makes sense is to go for greater collective enlightenment for humanity.”
Diligent, persistent, and keeping the original intention, Musk used action to turn his dream into reality.
His initial reason for doing SpaceX is not, in fact, a “childhood complex” as some people think.
But for the future of mankind, it is deeply beneficial.
To enlarge the dream, to open the brain, like Musk such dream practitioners, there should be more.
Turn great ideas into great products and then into great businesses.
Technology should be about constant progress, not just amplifying human disadvantages.
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