It all starts 47 years ago when the most influential man of the 21st century was born in Pretoria, South Africa. You’re probably curious on who this genius of a man is and why he is such a god among men well let’s just say he has to be from the future no man is able to create such unique projects and let’s not forget this is the man who sold flamethrowers and they sold out he needs to be respected for who he is. Now I’m not going to reveal just yet the name of this mystical beast of wealth just yet because we need to learn more about his origin story.
“Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, the son of Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. He has a younger brother, Kimbal, and a younger sister, Tosca. His paternal grandmother was British, and he also has Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His maternal grandfather Joshua Haldeman was American, from Minnesota.After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in the suburbs of Pretoria, which Musk chose two years after his parents split up, but now says was a mistake. As an adult, Musk has severed relations with his father, whom he has referred to as ‘a terrible human being’. He has a half-sister and a half-brother.
During his childhood, Musk was an avid reader. At age 10, he developed an interest in computing with the Commodore VIC-20. He taught himself computer programming at the age of 10, and by the age of 12 sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar, to a magazine called PC and Office Technology, for approximately $500. A web version of the game is available online. His childhood reading included Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, from which he drew the lesson that ‘you should try to take the set of actions that are likely to prolong civilization, minimize the probability of a dark age and reduce the length of a dark age if there is one.’ Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then beat him until he lost consciousness.
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Elon Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School and Bryanston High School before graduating from Pretoria Boys High School. Although Musk’s father insisted that Elon go to college in Pretoria, Musk became determined to move to the United States. As he states, ‘I remember thinking and seeing that America is where great things are possible, more than any other country in the world.’Knowing it would be easy to get to the United States from Canada, he moved to Canada against his father’s wishes in June 1989, just before his 18th birthday,after obtaining a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother.”~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Early_childhood
Now you’re probably thinking this sounds like a pretty normal childhood which you would be right about but he was a genius from before he was in the womb. But now that we have introduced the origin story of this amazing entrepreneur we shall now commence the real story on what we really wanna hear which is the story on how he rose to his amazing power and wealth while also staying humble at the same time. So Elon Musk made his majority of his earnings to start from being a co-founder of Paypal which he spent years on getting no sleep. This type of commitment to a project if you really wanna make money in this day and age. But his real strength that put him on top was his minimalistic car company Tesla that has changed how we see the future of cars while also preventing fossil fuels from going into our atmosphere.
“Since the company’s inception in 2003, Tesla’s mission has been to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable energy future. The first Tesla product, the Roadster sports car, debuted in 2008, followed by the Model S sedan, which was introduced in 2012, and the Model X SUV, which launched in 2015. Model S was named Motor Trend 2013 Car of the Year and received Consumer Reports’ Best Overall Car, while Model X was the first SUV ever to earn 5-star safety ratings in every category and sub-category in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s tests. In 2017, Tesla began deliveries of Model 3, a $35,000 mass-market electric car with over 215 miles of range, and unveiled Tesla Semi, which is designed to save owners at least $200,000 over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.”~Tesla.com , The mission of Tesla is to remove fuel costs while also making it eco friendly.
Another amazing company Elon Musk has created is SpaceX which is trying to get the first manned mission to the planet of Mars and eventually colonize because the inevitable of earth becoming overpopulated and uninhabitable will eventually happen.It’s quite crazy to think one person has formed all of these huge companies and is so focused on what’s to come in the future. Now although everyone might be paying attention to Elon Musk a lot of people don’t know about his The Boring Company which he sold flamethrowers and they sold out. Elon Musk has also created SolarCity which is another thing that focuses on saving the environment which I truly believe is Elon Musk’s mission to do in his life.So if you want to become successful like Elon Musk you have to work hard for years nothing comes easy but it pays off in the end especially if that’s what you truly want. I picked Elon Musk because if I was to become an entrepreneur I would want to be Elon Musk it seems as if he has just about everything you can think of and he has such a diverse collection of companies and he is a good person that helps the world for the better.
Elon Musk has gone through many challenges due to the fact that building a company takes lots of time and effort which he was willing to put the work in on he slept for 2 hours every night when he was making Paypal which is a serious effort. So yes Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 21st century and someone to keep paying attention too as he is still only in his 40s which means he could still create many more companies and great ideas which I’m sure he’ll be able to do and eventually take people to mars and create underground transportation tunnels removing traffic from the world it’s only the start of what’s next to come for Elon Musk and his genius sized brain which is still figuring new methods for things out. Also he wants to save money for people.
In conclusion, don’t underestimate the wrath of Elon Musk because he is a genius and an amazing entrepreneur that will continue to make the world a better place by using his earnings to create new products and ideas for the people of this world.
