Be Elon Musk 🚀
> Born 1971, Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦
> Bullied as a child
> Obsessed with books, science fiction and technology
> Self-taught programmer
> Sells his first computer game at 12
> Leaves South Africa at 17 with big dreams
> Arrives in North America with little money
> Studies physics and economics at UPenn
> Drops out of Stanford PhD
> Starts companies during the internet boom
> Co-founds X dot com which becomes PayPal
> Becomes a multimillionaire before 30
> Could have retired forever
> Chooses instead to risk almost everything
> Founds SpaceX in 2002
> Experts laugh
> First three rockets explode
> Comes within weeks of bankruptcy
> Refuses to quit
> Changes the space industry forever
> Creates reusable rockets
> Booster landings normal
> Launch costs collapse
> SpaceX becomes the world’s dominant launch company
> Builds Starlink — thousands of satellites, internet from space globally
> Develops Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built
> Goal: make humanity a spacefaring civilization
> Leads Tesla, turns electric cars mainstream
> Forces the entire auto industry to follow
> Becomes the richest man in the world
> Acquires Twitter in 2022, renames it X
> Launches xAI and creates Grok
> Challenges the biggest AI players
> Regularly tops global wealth rankings
> Gains or loses tens of billions in a single day
> SpaceX IPO on June 12, 2026
> Becomes the world’s first trillionaire in history
> SpaceX reaches historic valuations, one of the most anticipated events ever
> Father of 14 children, strong advocate for population growth
> Admired, criticized, copied, never ignored
> Still pursuing the same goal from decades ago: making humanity multi-planetary
King? No 👑
President? No 🇺🇸
Just the most ambitious entrepreneur of the 21st century
One of the greatest geniuses humanity has ever produced
The privilege of being his contemporaries, seeing him in action every day, instead of only reading about him in thick history books centuries from now
Ad astra ✨