KEY TAKEAWAYS Elon Musk is the charismatic co-founder and CEO of electric car maker Tesla and rocket manufacturer SpaceX. Born and raised in South Africa, Musk spent time in Canada before finally moving to the U. S. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania in physics, Musk started getting his feet wet as a serial tech entrepreneur with early successes like Zip2 and X. com. He was instrumental in creating the company that became PayPal. Musk has behaved in eccentric ways from time to time and has identified himself as having Asperger's syndrome. His astounding success has given rise to comparisons to other visionary businessmen, such as Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, and Bill Gates. After an often difficult childhood, Musk developed a relentless work ethic (he is known to work as many as 80 to 120 hours per week) and a tenacious, single-minded vision.1 As of 2021, he has an estimated total net worth of $151 billion. He is surpassed only by Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world.2 Let's look briefly at the life of the man behind a string of companies that have disrupted multiple industries.
Early Life and Education Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, one of South Africa’s three capital cities.3 His father was an engineer, and his mother a model and nutritionist. He is the oldest of three children, all high-achievers: His brother, Kimbal Musk, is a venture capitalist and environmentalist.4 His sister, Tosca Musk, is an award-winning producer and director.5 After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived primarily with his father.6 He would later dub the man "a terrible human being… almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done."7 “I had a terrible upbringing. I had a lot of adversity growing up. One thing I worry about with my kids is they don’t face enough adversity,” Musk would later say.8
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Elon Musk is my hero and could possibly be the first African American to own a major social media platform if he succeeds with Twitter. Which now he is going around the board of Twitter and making an offer to the shareholders directly. We'll see how this pans out. How can you not respect someone that makes an electric car that is fast as a combustion engine. Who also makes a rocket to orbit the planet and then straps one of his electric cars on top of the rocket and it shoots it into space. You got to love the guy.
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I think he is exactly a Ford, Jobs, Gates, however, he has a better Game and is taking it into Politics. I think he knows how to manipulate the Right but his heart is Leftist Socialist. Once he get to DC then Communist…BECAUSE his heart ❤️ is where his 💰 is-and that’s Electric rather than Oil. It’s going to be wild watching: AOC (Model/Politician) and Musk (JFK/Business) fighting over the Woman’s Vote 2024 or 2028 ‼️
Career wise: Elon Musk is a genius, hard worker, a good man (relative to how many lazy, greedy rich people) that exist out there. America needs more brilliant people like him who can do society a lot of good.
However, when you take a look at his relationship history. He seems to be a player and I honestly think the women are just dating him because of his money and status.
I know when he tried to buy Twitter I hadn't seen the democrat party so angry about an African American owning a business since they formed the KKK. 😆 🤣 😂 But all kidding aside I think he's a shrewd business man and one hell of an entrepreneur. And some people I know who work for him say he's one of the best employers they've ever worked for. that even though he provides the funding he knows to listen to his team's feed back and make changes accordingly. Thats what separates a leader from a dictator like Jeff bezos
I was around when PayPal was a new thing and loved it, so definitely remember Elon getting into the game.
I still say he's a paragon because he's sunk a lot of life his into good things. From sleeping in his office at Tesla, to getting USA back into space instead of relying on paying Russia.
People with that kind of money tend to be incredibly ruthless, because you only get that rich by exploiting others. Sure he may be a hard worker, but I do not want to know inside stories out of his companies.
Oh yes and people that rich need to be watched out for. Money and power corrupt and they end up wanting more and more and the general public is to pay for it.
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I can't stand him :) Selling old ideas in a new costume is the opposite of ''genius''. Making others toil to sell the product as ''your'' idea later on is hypocritical. Obviously, he manipulates enough people to make the bucks, and to laugh himself into sleep each evening. A complete asshole. Just one with money.
elon musk has said some very intelligent things too. things that the ordinary average person can't immediately comprehend unless they have sophisticated IQ
@shaysh87 I'm sufficiently close to him to debate with him; also: I have said some intelligent things myself, too :D Anyhow - fall to your knees as much as you want... it does not hurt me. Nor does it change my aversion against this man :)
I wish I could ask him how to get busy working 80 hours a week. i mean like with 2 jobs, where the labor contract indicates, that part-time jobs are only agreed upon before being taken? or is it running his own business, that occupies 80 hours a week? I want to become rich and i think people like him have the answers to my questions and can point me to the right direction.
He doesn't give the greatest speeches, I recently saw an interview with him and for someone with such status he uses a lot of "filler words" which can be a sign that speeches need improvement I don't have the AWE factor that some people have for Elon but he's made a name for himself and that's something Inspirational
He needs to stay off Social Media so he can't quit being a liability for Tesla. Other than that, I like what he's done. Still, I have trouble believing where the world is going to get all the metals needed to electrify transportation as a whole. The mining needed to accomplish that with the current technology will be environmentally taxing in itself. I don't think people realize how much mining is going to be needed for the electrification of transportation.
If we should have billionaires, they should be having goals like his, not buying yachts and funding wars like the Russians. That said I would never want to have him as a boss. It's better to divide the work load then put it all on the same people.
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From what I understand, he's now the richest man in the world. Maybe he can do something to stop Soros and the other richest guys from completely destroying the planet!!
Very successful and intelligent business man. He’s also a savvy engineer, and I support his ventures. I believe he genuinely has a good heart and has dedicated his life to improving the world.
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