With great power, comes great responsibility, and Elon Musk is the true essence of this phrase. An investor, business magnate and engineer by degree, he is now counted amongst ‘The World’ Most Powerful People’.
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future
About Elon Musk
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has achieved a number of milestones and was counted as World’s 53rd Richest Man by Forbes in 2018 with Elon Musk Net worth of US$20.8. Elon Musk’s biography was published in 2015 by Ashlee Vance and the Elon Musk book named ‘Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future’. Elon Musk theory suggested that “We are all living within a Computer Stimulation”.
Early Life
Born on 28th June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Reeve Musk took an early interest in computer programming and attended Queen’s University at 17 for education when the family moved to Canada. Receiving a degree in Physics, he soon changed his mind with future plans of studying to pursue a career in entrepreneurship.
Personal Life and Family
Born to Errol Musk and Maye Musk, Elon Musk has seen many ups and downs in personal relationships. He met his first wife, Justine Wilson, a Canadian Author while being at the Queen’s University. They got married in 2000 and took divorce in 2008. Their first son died 10 weeks after his birth and later they had twins (2004) and triples (2006) through in vitro fertilisation.
Talulah Riley, an English Actress got married to Elon in 2010 after two years of dating. Musk announced an end to their four-year relationship in 2012 and the couple got remarried in 2013. However, Elon Musk again filed for the second divorce in 2014 and it was eventually withdrawn. Later on, in March 2016, Riley filed a divorce and it was finalised.
Elon Musk then dated Amber Heard, an American actress for one year and is now he is seen with Canadian musician Grimes.
Early Career& Companies
Elon Musk dropped his plans to do PhD in Applied Physics and Material Sciences to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. In 1999, Zip2 co-founded by him and is a web-software company, grabbed a $300 million deal from Compaq.
He then founded an online bank, X.com which then in 2000 merged with Confinity to become PayPal. In 2002, PayPal was then bought for $1.5 billion by eBay!
A Space Transport service and aerospace manufacturer company, SpaceX was founded by Musk in May 2002. Musk then co-founded Tesla which is a solar panel and electric car manufacturer.SolarCity, a solar energy service providing company inspired by Musk is now a subsidiary of Tesla. He is the CEO of both the Elon Musk companies as of now and the Chief Designer (SpaceX) and also the Product architect (Tesla).
Some other companies founded by Elon Musk are:
- OpenAI in 2015: Non-profit Company that promotes artificial intelligence for friendly and better cause.
- Neuralink in 2016: Brain-computer interface is developed by this neuro-technology company.
- The Boring Company in 2016: A tunnel and infrastructure construction company.
The concept of high-speed transportation or ‘Hyperloop’ at 1200 km/hr was unveiled by Musk on August 12, 2013, which is a technological marvel already! How a person can be inspired with daily problems to create such great ideas is a great encouragement.
Enduring Failures
Elon Musk has seen a lot of failures and his life history is an inspirational story in itself. Bouncing back every time you fall is one superior quality that this man has shown it to the world. His views are futuristic, yet seem so attainable!
Video game ‘Blaster’ was created by Musk at the mere age of 12! Also, he sold the rights for $500! Therefore, one should learn to boost up themselves at a younger age for a quality future.
And not just the real world, but the entertainment world also takes inspiration from him. The iconic role of Tony Stark’s Iron Man is justified with this. Director of Iron Man revealed that the personalities of that of Elon Musk and the character Tony Stark aka Iron Man were identical. He was also seen making an appearance in the movie Iron Man 2 which was mostly shot around SpaceX Headquarters.
Struggles were Real
Struggles in personal life or professional never stopped this man from achieving greatness. He started working in a boiler room for just $18/hr.
He was thrown out from an internship in a bank.
He slept the first three months in office while working on Zip2 for which he took US$28,000 from his father as seed funding.
He almost died of malaria in Sep 2000, when he was in his honeymoon vacation. Also, prior to this in the same vacation, he was ousted as PayPal’s CEO.
SpaceX wan on the verge of bankruptcy! Yes, in 2008, NASA’s $1.6 billion contracts saved SpaceX from getting bankrupt.
There are a lot more to all these, but aforementioned are enough to seek important life lessons from Elon Musk. Few are doing great after attaining so much of dominance and Elon Musk leads them all. His technological views to improve humanity are modern liberation that will bring justice to humankind soon.
Never let your willpower go off. Never let the obstacles hinder what you want in your life. Just dream big and work hard. Rest history will tell about everything.
