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Hello friend! Today, in our time, Elon musk
stands at the 40th position in the world's top billionnaires list.
While this video is being made, his net worth is 20.6 billion US dollars.
In 10-15 years, there are chances for him to become the world's richest man.
People call Elon Musk the Real World Iron Man because
he thinks just like Iron Man, runs many technology-related companies and
he is also very rich. This is why he is known as the real world iron man.
After Steve Jobs, Elon musk was the person who created a revolution in technology.
Since he is an inspiration to everyone, we are going to see about his biography today.
Along with his biography, we are also going to learn about his unique qualities, because
if you learn about these qualities
and follow it a liitle, you can atleast become a millionnaire.
Elon Musk's childhood days were miserable.
His parents got divorced, and so, he was with his dad.
Since his dad was strict, his childhood wasn't that happy.
Even in school everyone used to bully him.Everyone hits him, and
once, they hit him so hard,that his nose broke and he became unconscious.
Because of this, he was admitted in the hospital.
When he was young, he wasn't that special.
No one would have expected him to be in the status he is, right now.But,
right from his young age, elon musk had a special quality,
i.e, reading books. Right from his young age, not only did he read school books, he also
read a lot of books on the topic he was interested in.
It seems that if he starts reading a book, he can do it continuously for 5 to 10 hours straight and
not even that, he used to easily finish two whole books in a single weekend.
If Elon Musk wasn't at home, his mom used to directly go and check two libraries nearby, and would easily find him because
he would always be in the library and finish reading all the books there.
He always asks the librairians to bring more and more books to the library.
Since he didn't get any books to read, he finished reading an entire encyclopedia.
When Elon Musk was asked "How do you know about rocket, space, technology,
how do you know about these things?", he seriously replied,"I learnt about them in books".
Thus, if you also want to become like Elon Musk, his first quality is "Read Read Read"
Elon Musk always reads books and learns the information he needs.
So, you also start reading books and improve your knowledge.
In this world,the common habit of the people who achieve big is to read books. This is the reason
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So coming back to Elon's story, unlike others, he will not leave the knowledge he gained from books without using it,
he will apply what he has learnt and will also use it to create something new.
when he was 12 years old, he read and learnt coding through a book. He himself coded and created a game during that time.
The name of that game was Blastar. Today, if you search for blastar on the internet,
you can also play the game online.
Elon Musk sold this game for $500.
This was his first business. Elon Musk likes playing games,
and because of this, along with his brother, he thought of opening an arcade gaming shop.
He had found a place for the shop, had finished deals with gaming-equipment dealers.
But, since both of them weren't adults,
they couldn't get a permit to start it as a company.
Even their parents didn't support them. Because of this he couldn't execute his plan.
Elon Musk was born in South Africa, he didn't like the government, because
at that time the government told that everyone must work for the military.
So, he moved from South Africa to Canada. Here, he was doing small jobs.
After this, he came to the USA to study in a college. He had a dual degree in Business and Physics,
and then, he went to Stanford to do a PhD in Physics. But, it was at this time, the internet was booming.
Seeing that the internet was booming, he thought of starting an internet-based company and dropped out of college.
His idea was to bring yellow pages to the internet.
The idea of
getting information of local businesses in the internet gave him a huge success.
The company's name was Zip2 and Compaq bought the company for $307 million.
Because of this dealing, Musk got $22 million. While all of this happened, he was 28 years old.
Therefore, "Being a creator" is Musk's second quality.
He not only reads, but also applies what he has learnt to keep creating new things.
Other than being a consumer, he also aims at being a creator.
When he knew that there was a problem in his own country, instead of being reactive like others, he was proactive
and has changed his situation. He has applied what he studied,
been a creator and has become a millionnaire.
When he was 28 years old, after he became a millionnaire, if he wanted, he could have relaxed and retired.
But he didn't think it like that. In fact, he never saw it as a big achievement.
He wanted to acheive something even bigger, and wanted to start a business in the finance line.
As there wasn't any major change in the finance line for quite a long time, he chose this sector.
At that time, transactions were majorly done through cheques. Because of this, payments were reaching people with lots of delay.
Because of this, to create a revolution in the finance industry, he decided to start a company.
The company's name was x.com. X.com's main idea was to make payments through the internet.
A similar company named PayPal had been started by Peter Thiel.
X.com and PayPal were competitors in the online payment sector.
Finally, both the companies merged and formed PayPal.
The members and co-founders of PayPal are superb business persons. All these people are called PayPal Mafia,
as these people have started many businesses even after PayPal,
and out of these businesses, many of them have become successful.
The creators of Youtube in which you are watching this video right now were a part of the PayPal Mafia.
In 2002, Ebay bought this PayPal company for $1.5 billion. From this, Musk got $180 million.
Even after getting $180 million, without relaxing,
to save human life and make them a multiplanetary species, he immediately started 3 companies,
SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City.
From the $180 million he had, he invested $100 million in SpaceX, $60 million in Tesla, and $20 million in Solar City,
after which he did not have money for rent and took loan from others.
Though Elon had a lot of money, he didn't think of settling in life.
He always wanted to achieve something big in life. Therefore, you should also think of achieving something big.
Some people say that "He does it as he wants to earn more money. That is why he is doing this." and you will think like that too.
But it is not true. From a very young age, he reads a lot of books, and the same way, he also reads comic books.
In the comic books, just like how superheroes try to save the world, he also thinks of saving us.
He is doing all of this to achieve his childhood dreams.
In 2002, he started a company called SpaceX, and the company's vision was to take even normal people to space,
humans should be taken to Mars and they must become a multiplanetary species.
As the world is facing a lot of problems like global warming,
he thinks that even if something happens to the world in the future, we can still live in Mars.
Because of this, humans can survive as a species.
He suffered a lot to run a private space agency or a rocket company,
as all the other space agencies were being run by the government.
Rocket launches also cost a lot, and a private company cannot handle it.
So, SpaceX thought of creating a reusable rocket-launch system.
Because of this, instead of having the rocket-launch boosters as use-and-throw, they changed it so that it can be used 3-4 times,
as this was the part of the rocket that had the highest cost.
This was the company's first achievement. For this achievement, the company suffered a lot.
They did 3 rocket launches, and when they tried to land, all 3 of them failed.
The reuseable rocket system succeeded only during their 4th attempt.
After this, NASA signed a $1.5 billion bill
with SpaceX.
Recently, SpaceX's biggest achievement was the launch of a rocket called Falcon Heavy
inside which there was Tesla's roadster car along with a starman, into space.
In 2003, Elon Musk invested $60 million in Tesla,
as pollution levels were high. As a result,
global warming went high and our Earth was getting spoilt.
Because of this, if we avoided using cars with fossil fuels, we could control pollution.
So, he thought of bringing electric cars to the market,
but, at that time, electric cars didn't look that good, and the batteries would also drain fast.
So, he thought that along with looking like a sports car,
if the batteries were long-lasting, everybody would buy electric cars.
Elon Musk wanted everyone to use electric cars, and so,
he told to the people using tesla cars that they would get a free lifetime charge.
Because of this, they would not have to use fossil fuels, i.e petrol and diesel,
and the environment would also not get polluted.
For this not to happen, all the petrol-diesel companies opposed Elon Musk,
because, if everyone started using electric cars,
these people's businesses will be at a loss.
Therfore, the companies didn't want Elon Musk to get success.
All these electric cars needed electricity.
So, in order to not use the energy created by fossil fuels,
he thought of using renewable sources like solar energy, and started a company called Solar City in 2006.
Solar City company thought that since keeping a solar panel above the roofs of houses won't look stylish,
the company created a product called solar roof.
It looks like a normal roof, but they all are solar panels.
It generates electricity and can be used to power a house.
From 2007-2008, Elon Musk faced a lot of problems.
It was at this time when he got divorced,
and since the market crashed, all of his companies went to a state where they almost had to be closed.
As already mentioned, it was at this time when the first three launches of SpaceX failed.
Tesla had enough money to run the company only for a week.
Because of him overcoming all of this and making SpaceX's 4th launch successful,
he had changed the bad situation and brought back all his companies to a good condition.
Therefore, even if you have difficulties in life,
even if many people oppose what you are trying to do, you should overcome all odds
and become successful. Not only does Elon Musk run these companies,
he has started "THE BORING COMPANY" and "hyperloop" for faster transportation,
and also artificial intelligence related companies such as "OpenAI" and "Neuralink".
These companies are also facing a lot of challenges,
let's see whether he is overcoming them or not.
I have told you all this from the book "ELON MUSK: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by ASHLEE VANCE.
If you want to buy this book, there is a link in the description, you can visit the link and buy it.
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