LIFE STORY OF ELON MUSK 


     Elon Musk, a South African businessman, engineer, inventor and also real-life iron man. He was a normal man bullied by many people as he was introverted so he hated to go school. He was born to an Engineer and model in 1971 in South Africa. In childhood days, Musk was pulled into observing things keenly on what he sees. But his parents thought that he was unable to hear (deaf). So he was taken to the doctor and his parents came to know that he observes the things keenly which creates imagination power creatively. Elon Musk is the student who asks questions creatively to his teachers. And also he has the talent to explain things differently. This talent was hated by some students and they beat Elon Musk sorely. Likewise one time he was thrown from the upstairs by those hatred boys. So he was admitted to the hospital and he uses that time by reading comic books and it helps to imagine creatively. When he was 10 his parents were divorced. First he stayed with his father but between them arrived more misunderstandings and problems. So he spent most of this time with his grandmother. Grandmother gave him books about Rockets to read and she told stories related to Rockets. Because not join with friends he sat lonely and learned coding from that he created a Video game (destroying Alien) in his twelfth age and it sold for $500. He did his college in Canada, at the time he collected a lot of information from businessmen about their experience. He searched a lot for internships to do. But he was rejected many times. He joined as an intern in a bank and at the time he did his Master degree, side by side he did intern in physics research center in the morning and in evening he did intern in video game center as he liked computer, coding, physics. He decided to join the ZIP 2 Company. Because he collected the address and phone number of business men in telephone directories when he was searching for an intern. So he decided to open ZIP2 to give information and details about hotels and its Menu card companies, maps on the internet. He thought about it in 1995. But most of the people were ignored and not respected at all.

    With full of Self-confidence he started his first company ZIP2 with the help of Brother Kimbal Musk. But his first company is very tiny and small without Restroom, so it just looks like a godown. Due to the company's appearance people don't believe it. So with the help of the investor he developed his company's outlook and interior work. And he developed ZIP2 but problems arrived between shareholders and Musk, So Musk got his share and came out. And he got the idea to do Online transactions and created a company called x.com website and later named PayPal, it is the first online transaction system. In the USA people and media will also celebrate entrepreneurs like sports players who give their different and creative ideas. So the shareholders were jealous of Musk and maneuvered in various ways to bring him down. And they hacked PayPal and it caused a big issue so Musk returned with his share from PayPal. His wife left him; though struggles may have arrived him often he never gives up and decides to send a rocket and he loves to go to Mars. He asked Russia about Rocket but it's too costly. He decided to make rockets by himself. He worked and made his continuous effort in both making rockets and batteries for cars. He sent a rocket but it failed continuously in 2006, 2007, 2008. He was teased by the entire America about how a single man can send Rocket. He came across many words like mad, insane, unhinged. Due to his continuous perseverance he succeeded in 2008. At the time he had Zero Balance in his account. The Rocket mission succeeded and he was awarded millions and billions by NASA. In 2017 he decided to make reusable rockets. In that he failed three times but due to his diligence he succeeded in his fourth attempt.  The reason behind his success is the long range view about his life.

HE IS THE MAN WHO LEARN TO SEE SUCCESS AND FAILURE AS EQUALS

INTERESTING FACTS
  • Elon Musk has been very fond of reading books since childhood. He had been reading books nearly five hours per day.
  • By Studying basic Physics, he cured his own fear of the dark by understanding that darkness is the absence of photons wavelength.
  • He was very calm in childhood, because his friends used to trouble him.
  • Musk started coding and computer programming at the age of 10 and created a video game called 'Blaster' at the age of 12 and sold it for 500$, basically making him a prodigy
  • Musk dropped out of his Applied Physics PhD course after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial visions. After completing degrees in both Physics and Economics he enrolled on a PhD course at Stanford in 1995. After two he got bored and started a  business with his brother.
  • At the age of 28, Musk bought a Mclaren F1 for one million dollars, it's quite difficult to get insurance so he didn't bother and he crashed the car. Even he made fun of himself and found his passion for cars was clear.
  •  Robert Downey JR. Modelled his tony stark character on Musk, the eccentric genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist In Marvel films.
  • After the sale of the PayPal with all of his savings he had 180 million dollars he put 100 million in Space X, 70 million in Tesla and 10 million in solar city at that point he had to borrow money to pay rent.
  • Elon Musk married the same person twice.
  • Musk has said that he wants to die on Mars, not on Earth.
  • Musk thinks that AI is the most serious threat to the survival of the Human Race.
  • and believes the world is coming after AI in the wrong way. It's easy to assume that a tech entrepreneur would be head over heels in love with the idea of artificial intelligence.
  • Musk's building is the second largest building in the world from a footprint point of view, called the Giga factory.