It seems like there's nothing Elon Musk
can't do we watched many sci-fi movies
let's say Blade Runner Star Wars Total
Recall and many in all those movies they
projected that in the future is all
about air transport but this guy is
digging a hole in the ground from Los
Angeles to San Francisco for high-speed
transportation let's be frank how many
of us think of ideas like leaving the
earth and start colonizing on Mars and
how many of us ever thought of reusing
an orbital rocket forget about out of
the box his thoughts are already out of
this world as CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
founder of the boring company and
co-founder of open AI and neuro-link
musk seems to be everywhere all at once
pushing all kinds of futuristic
technologies he said he won't be happy
until we've escaped earth and colonized
Mars between space Rockets electric cars
solar batteries and the billions he's
made along the way musk is a real-life
Tony Stark which is why he served as an
inspiration for Marvel's 2008 Iron Man film
Musk made headlines in made 2020
when SpaceX launched a rocket that would
send two NASA astronauts Robert bankin
and Douglas Hurley to the International
Space Station hey everyone this is stuff
box and in this video let's take a
closer look into the journey of Elon
Musk and see how he was able to succeed
against all odds
The origins
Elon Musk was born on June 28 1971 in
Pretoria South Africa he was bullied as
a child but ultimately attended an Ivy
League university musk was a kid who
liked video games so at the age of 12 he
made his own that's impressive enough
but must be Musk he sold the game to a
magazine for roughly $500 at age 17 in
1989 must move to Canada to attend
Queen's University and avoid mandatory
service in the South African military
musk obtained his Canadian citizenship
that year in part because he felt it
would be easier to obtain American
citizenship via that path in 1992 musk
left Canada to study business and
physics at the University of
Pennsylvania he graduated with an
undergraduate degree in economics and
stayed for a second bachelor's degree in
physics while studying at the University
of Pennsylvania musk and a classmate
rented out a 10 bedroom house and turned
it into a nightclub the move which musk
undertook with a do resi was one of his
first entrepreneurial experiments
Zip2
in 1995 Elan and his brother Kimble
launched zip to it provided a searchable
business directory that could be
described as an Internet version of the
Yellow Pages telephone directory with
maps included musk persuaded navteq a
provider of electronic navigable maps to
give him free mapping software he then
wrote the code necessary to put the two
databases business listing and map
together must describe the company's
mission by saying that everyone ought to
be able to find the closest pizza parlor
and be able to figure out how to get
there unable to persuade potential
investors to give them financing musk
and his partners lived in their office
and showered at a local YMCA to keep
expenses low the company expanded its
listing by convincing businesses to pay
for inclusion the hard work paid off
when compact bought zip 2 in a deal
worth 341 million dollars in cash in
stock
earning musk 22 million dollars
in 1999 Elan and Kimball must used the
money from their sale of zip to to found
XCOM and online financial services /
payments company
XCOM acquisition the following year led
to the creation of PayPal as it's known
today in October 2002 must earned his
first billion when PayPal was acquired
by eBay for 1.5 billion in stock before
the sale must go and eleven percent of
PayPal stock and this marked the genesis
of the PayPal mafia which is a name
given to the group of former PayPal
employees and founders who have since
founded funded or developed some of the
biggest tech firms such as YouTube
LinkedIn Airbnb hora and reddit to name
a few
musk founded his third company Space
Exploration Technologies Corporation or
SpaceX in 2002 intending to build
spacecraft for commercial space travel
in the early days when SpaceX was first
trying to get to orbit they had a rocket
called the Falcon one and they launched
it three times all three times were
unsuccessful and they had one more
chance the fourth flight of Falcon one
and if it didn't work then SpaceX would
have gone bankrupt fortunately the
attempt was successful by 2008 SpaceX
was well established and NASA awarded
the company the contract to handle cargo
transport for the International Space
Station SpaceX is phone multiple cargo
resupply missions to the ISS but flying
cargo was never the endgame for SpaceX
their goal has always been to fly people
it was the company's success with prior
programs that gave NASA the confidence
to hire SpaceX to fly their astronauts
to the ISS and they successfully
completed the mission
SpaceX is long-term goal is to make
colonizing Mars affordable Musca said
that SpaceX won't file for an initial
public offering until what must cause
the Mars colonial transporter is flying
regularly
is the co-founder CEO and product
architect at Tesla Motors a company
formed in 2003 that's dedicated to
producing affordable mass-market
electric cars as well as battery
products and solar roofs musk oversees
all product development engineering and
design of the company's product at first
it was a failure TV shows like Top Gear
brought a lot of negativity to the brand
but Elon Musk fights back he took
precision care and took some bold
decisions like firing some of the
employees and even its co-founder and by
actively participating in that company's
innovation and decision making
he made the company of car giant now if
anyone hears the word electric car
chances are they're thinking of Tesla
mostly like it has no opposition Tesla
is now ruling the electric car market
unanimously in August 2013 musk released
a concept for a new form of
transportation called the Hyperloop an
invention that would foster commuting
between major cities while severely
cutting travel time
ideally resistant to weather and powered
by renewable energy the Hyperloop would
propel riders and pods through a network
of low pressure tubes at speeds reaching
more than 700 miles per hour musk noted
that the Hyperloop could take from 7 to
10 years to be built and ready for use
there is no crystal ball for success
even musk couldn't predict how his
companies would turn out but as he once
said if something is important enough
you should try even if the probable
outcome is failure
now Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX
the boring company CEO of Tesla Motors
CEO of neural Inc chairman of Solar City
and co-chairman of open AI from an
immigrant to advisor of the US president
from failure to success now Elon Musk's
net worth is around forty two point six
billion dollars have you ever wondered
why the best success stories begin with
failure some people say that failure is
the first step to success and there was
a man who invented the bowl he said this
famous quote I have not failed I've just
found 10,000 ways that won't work that's
a hell of a quote isn't it but do you
know what I think about why most success
stories begin with failure because they
haven't stopped at the failure they keep
on pushing their limits irrespective of
their circumstances maybe there will be
a time in your life where you feel like
everything is not working your work your
relationships everything but whenever
you feel like that all you have to do is
one thing just keep pushing
congratulations you've made it to the
end of this video if you want to know
more about Elon Musk I highly recommend
you read this book or at least listen to
the audio version of it if you enjoyed
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