Elon Musk
When others stops thinking , he starts thinking. And this made him the legend called Elon Musk.
On 7th January 2021, Elon Musk beats Jeff Bezos and became the richest person in the world.
The full name is Elon Reeve Musk.
Elon Musk is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer.
Elon brings the world a fresh ideas and inventions.
Elon has made solar energy affordable for the public through his company solar city and has made a dream of an electric car possible and inexpensive with Tesla motors.
This was not enough, his SpaceX space traveller adventure have proven to be a major success with a very promising future ahead.
Today will talk about the world's most daring entrepreneur who always tried hard to make the world a better place to live in.
He is the founder, CEO, CTO, and chief designer of SpaceX.
He is also the early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, founder of the Boring Company, co- founder of Neuralink and co- founder and initial co- chairman of open AI.
Now , there are many questions related to Elon Musk come to everybody's mind.
So, let's see those questions one by one.
When Elon Musk was born?
Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa.
Now you all are curious to know about his family, that means from where this legend come?
So let's see about his family.
Elon Musk's family
Come to his parents, the model and engineer.
70 year old, Maye Musk, elon musk's mother, became the oldest model to star in a cover girl campaign but she once worked 4 jobs as a single mom.
She was a teacher, research officer, part time model and ran her own private practice as a dietitian.
Errol Musk , elon's father, was an engineer.
Elon told Rolling stone magazine that Errol was the youngest person in South Africa to receive an engineer's license.
Elon credits his understanding of engineering to his father.
Billionaire Elon Musk may be transforming everything from power to space travel but elon isn't the only entrepreneur in the musk family tree.
The Musk legacy actually goes way back , the musk's have been disrupting industries for over a hundred years but let's start with Kimbal Musk, elon's brother.
He's the restaurateur of the family.
He currently sits on Japan Mexican grills board of directors and he started the kitchen restaurant group which has 15 restaurants across the country that sourced their food from local farmers.
Kimbal is also behind the non- profit Big Green which has 400 community gardens in schools across the country.
The program aims to teach children to eat healthier foods and BIG GREEN found that 26% of students were more likely to eat vegetables at schools with their gardens.
Then there's Tosca Musk , elon's sister, she's all about entertainment.
She is the co- founder and CEO of Passion flicks, an online streaming service for Romantic movies.
Tosca is also a director and producer.
She produced tiki bar TV, one of the 1st known internet TV series from 2006 to 2009.
Now to Elon's cousins, Russ Rive, Peter Rive and Lyndon Rive are all entrepreneur too.
They started ever dream a software company that survived the 2001 .com bubble and ultimately sold the company to DELL in 2007 $ 120 million due to concerns over long term viability.
Blendon Rive and Peter Rive later co- founder solarcity which Tesla acquired controversially for $ 2.6 billion in 2016.
After ever Russ Rive became the co- founder, CEO of SUPER UBER, an art and technical production company that was behind the closing ceremony at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Now, may be, another question arises to everybody's mind is about his early life or childhood.
Elon Musk's Marriage life
The marriage life of the great Elon Musk is also very interesting.
Let's talk about his wifes, one by one,
Justine Wilson ( 2000 - 2008 )
She is now a well- known Canadian author, who had been married to Musk for 8 years.
The couple began dating when both of them were studying at the Ontario's queen university.
Soon after their wedding, they welcomed a firstborn, a son who they named Nevada.
Unfortunately, at the age of just 10 weeks, he passed away from a sudden infant syndrome.
Later, Justine and Elon became parents to twins in 2004 and triplets in 2006.
And even though, they were raising 5 kids together, they filled for a divorce after 8 years of marriage life. They remained close and co- parent to their kids.
Talulah Riley ( 2008 - 2016 )
After the split from the first spouse, the founder of SpaceX got romantically involved with a British actress.
After 2 years of being together, they tied the knot officially and had been a happy married until they called it quits in 2012.
Nonetheless, this breakup didn't last long and they got hitched again in 2013.
In 2014, Musk filled for a 2nd divorce but it was later withdrawn.
In 2016, the media started saying that their divorce proceedings were underway once again.
And this time it was true, Riley herself filling for a divorce from her husband.
The same year, everything was successfully finalized. They split on good terms and frequently see each other.
Amber Heard ( 2016 - 2018 )
The relationship between these 2 love birds had been on and off since 2016 till 2018.
When Heard divorced Johnny Depp, she found her happiness in Musk.
They were often spotted together at various events between 2016 and 2017.
In early 2018, they tried to get the feelings back but decided that it would be better to walk separate ways.
Grimes ( 2018 - present time )
Elon had been dating Grimes since 2018, making their public debut at the Met Gala that year.
And just had their first child together.
Elon Musk's Early life
Elon's childhood was not very good.
When Elon was about 10, his parents got divorced.
Elon, his brother kimbal and sister Tosca stayed with their fashion model Canadian mother.
Raising 3 kids alone wasn't easy for her, at one point, she had to work multiple jobs to support her family.
Maye says that she had to scrimp, save and hustle to raise Elon and his siblings, after the divorce.
At school, Musk was brutally bullied for years, he was the youngest and smallest kid in class.
Elon was an unusual, introverted child, he was bullied, once so severely that he was hospitalized for a week.
But this didn't hinder his pursuit of knowledge.
Elon was so stressed that only science helped him to hide from this miserable reality.
Musk taught himself computer programming and by 12, he'd made a video game and sold it to a magazine for $ 500.
You can still play Blastar online.
Now come to another question i.e. about his carrier.
Elon Musk's carrier
Musk's empire began in 1999, when he and his brother Kimbal sold their software company which provided city business guides to newspapers.
Aged just 27, Musk reinvested his $ 22m windfall into X.com, a company which promised to revolutionize how we transfer money.
A company you may now know as PayPal.
When eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, Musk took home $ 165m.
Without taking a moment to breath, the young entrepreneur turned his gaze upwards and set up space exploration Technologies or SpaceX with the mission statement of enabling people to live on other planets.
Two years later, he directed his disruptive thinking to renewable energy, and in 2004, set up the electric car company Tesla.
On 6th February 2018, Elon Musk launches the world's most powerful active rocket, catapults his Tesla sports car into space, and vertically lands two of the rocket boosters simultaneously.
For most engineers , this extraordinary feat would be the pinnacle of their career.
But for Elon Musk, it was just a Tuesday.
It's perhaps no wonder Elon Musk was a source of inspiration for Robert Downey junior's billionaire business magnate com superhero Tony Stark.
Elon Musk's Interesting projects
Elon Musk, the Nikola Tesla of our generation.
The Boring company
Even his Boring projects are exciting.
Massive underground tunnels under cities to negate traffic.
World's largest lithium ion battery
The battery will protect south Africa from energy crisis.
Musk promised to build the battery within 100 days or would do it for free.
The AI game
Elon Musk : If humans are to survive, we must merge with machines.
HYPERLOOP
The futuristic transport system.
Commuters are whisked through a tube at speeds at 700 mph still in beta.
Musk believes in changing the world, very much like Tesla.
Now see the interesting thing that means his challenges in life.
Elon Musk's Biggest Challenge
In Interview, Elon was asked about his biggest challenge in life.
After deep thinking, he replied-
" I think is making sure you have corrective feedback loop. And maintaining that corrective feedback loop over time, even when people won't to tell you exactly what you want to hear."
I think you all are curious to know about his key to success.
So, let's see.
Elon Musk's - 3 key to success
1. Work Super Hard
For starting a company you need too work super hard every hour.
If you work double, you will get twice as done as the other company.
2. Take Risks
Now is the time to take Risks.
As you get older, your obligations increase. So now is the time to do that.
He encourages you to take risks now, do something bold.
3. Really like what you do
Even if you are the best, there's always a chance of failure. It's important that you really like whatever you are doing.
Life it's too short.
Just take a deep breath to read Musk's greatest failures.
Elon Musk's Greatest Failure
- 1995 - failed to get a job at Netscape
- 1996 - ousted as CEO of zip2
- 2000 - Fired by PayPal's board
- 2000 - almost died of malaria
- 2006 - repeated rocket launch failures
- 2008 - Tesla and SpaceX on the verge of Bankruptcy
- 2016 - Almost 6 satellites destroyed
- 2018 - Rejected mini- sub plan for thai cave rescue
- 2019 - Cybertruck glass strength failed demonstration
- 2020 - Tesla and Panasonic end joint solar cell production
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Im proud of you. Child
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