Today’s blog is about a person who is called by many people, as a genius person, and as an alien. Elon Musk, is the richest person in the world, almost with a net worth of 140 billion dollars which is equivalent to billions of Indian currency. If you understand in detail, then this person is richer than many countries and also the owner of many major unicorn companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and many more. Here, in this blog, we are talking about Elon Musk.
But before we start, I have a question for you all. This system has kept us all in the same place. We are trapped in Politics, who is rich and who is poor, which child is intelligent, and many more such things from birth to death. But have you ever thought about why? Why is Punjabi not able to become a great scientist, inventor, or entrepreneur? Whenever you hear that someone made something, mostly only one answer comes from a foreigner. You comment and tell why? What is the reason for this? And I will give my opinion at the end of this blog.
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Biography of Elon Musk
Now let’s start the brief biography of Elon Musk. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa. When he was 12 years old, he made a $500 video game blaster himself. He sold it and gave the world an idea about his super brain. He completed his high school in South Africa. In 1989, he moved to Canada at the age of 18. Where he studied business at the Queen’s University of Ontario.
Later, in 1992, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in America and did a Bachelor of Physics and Economics degree. And finally, at the age of 24, in 1995, he moved to Stanford University in California to do a PhD in physics. Where just after 2 days, he realized that he didn’t need any degrees to do what he wanted to do. This is where his real struggle begins.
Struggling Life of Elon Musk
When Elon Musk didn’t get the desired job to apply for jobs, then he chose his own path.
Zip2 Project
He was good in programming and coding, he first made a project called Zip2 with his brother. But he says that something has to be lost to achieve something. So, all his life is based on this quote. In his first project Zip2, he was not having enough money. so, he rented an office. In this office, he works and sleeps. He didn’t have a home at that time. So, with this project, Zip2, and many other projects, the Google Maps we use today, is also the wonder of this person’s brainchild.
So long story short, many companies wanted to buy it because of its success. So they sold this project to the AltaVista search engine for $ 307 million. Due to a few reasons, he only got $ 22 million from this sale. So still, 30 years ago, he was a millionaire. When many people wake up at 11 in the morning and say, Mom, get some tea, this man was the owner of several crores.
X.com to PayPal
From there, the desire to make this man a little bigger started. Out of $ 22 million, he spent $ 12 million and started his new project, which was x.com. It was a kind of online bank. If you think about how long was thinking in the 90s when he was thinking that people will do cards and online payments in his time. Only a crazy person could think like that at that time. So he merged this project with its equivalent company, which had almost the same vision, Confinity, and named it Paypal from X.com.
A lot many things happened in this company too, but in 2002, the PayPal company was sold to eBay for $ 1.5 billion. From this deal, Elon Musk got $ 175 million.
Dreams of Elon Musk
From here, Elon Musk wanted to do something with this amount, which he had dreamed of in his childhood. Those dreams were to go to Mars from Earth, flying cars in the air, and many more.
Companies Owned By Elon Musk
SpaceX
He first made a company to make rockets, named SpaceX. In which he invested 100 million dollars. The rest of the funding was given by DARPA, which is a US Department of Defense agency. In 2008, after he got NASA’s first contract, SpaceX sent the largest number of satellites into space. SpaceX’s main achievement is to reuse rockets and other space vehicles to reduce the cost of the space project.
Tesla Motors
In 2003, after SpaceX, Elon Musk invested 70 million dollars in an already existing company, Tesla Motors. So according to him, all the money he had, he had invested in SpaceX and Tesla. And later in his interview, he says that he didn’t have money to rent a home, so he used to spend nights on the floor of his friend’s house or in his company.
In 2008, after launching the first car, Roadster, many investors and even the US Department of Energy invested in Tesla Motors. So that it can make more environmentally friendly electric cars. Elon Musk also owns other companies. About which maybe people have less information.
SolarCity
The company that makes solar panels, is SolarCity.
OpenAI
The company OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence.
Neuralink
The company Neuralink is made for medical science. Which is working to make those people speak and move, those for any reason, can’t speak or move mentally. For them, this company is working to make a chip that can be implanted in the brain. So they can live their normal life.
The Boring Company
The next company to manage road traffic is the boring company that makes underground tunnels. Which due to some environmental issues, is not able to work as fast as it should. But with this technological innovation, think about how much time will be saved in road accidents.
And a while ago, the first social media giant company that bought in $44 billion, was Twitter. With which many controversies have been associated.
How Elon Musk Inspires Us?
All this is the price of Elon Musk’s tireless effort. If he wanted, he could have lived a comfortable life. But such people come to the world after centuries. And the one who does something or thinks, that common man cannot think for thousands of years.
So Friends, these were some things about that person, we all can learn a lot from Elon Musk. Just need to expand the scope of our thinking.
The wise say that as long as the iron is not thrown in the fire, nothing happens. If you follow this, then understand that the effort made in the right direction is always worth it. Where are we all giving our time and what impact will it have on our lives? There is a need to think about this too.
In the last, if you want to do something for the world, then you will have to think about something different. Just need to take the first step on that path. So now I say goodbye, meet you all with the next blog. Till then keep learning and keep growing.
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