Elon Musk just made history 🚨
here is how he survived bankruptcy, ignored the haters, and became the world’s first trillionaire 💵🪙
> The start
° grew up in South Africa, got bullied a lot, and moved to America with just a backpack
° built his first companies (Zip2 and PayPal) and sold them for massive profits
> The Crazy Bets
° took his PayPal money and risked it all on two crazy ideas: electric cars (Tesla) and reusable rockets (SpaceX)
° everyone laughed at him and called him crazy
• almost went completely broke in 2008 he had to sleep on factory floors to keep his companies alive
> The Payoff
° tesla: Made electric cars cool and mainstream
° spaceX: Did the impossible by making rockets reusable, dropping the cost of space travel by 95%
° starlink: Gave high-speed internet to the most remote places on earth
> The X Factor
° bought Twitter for $44 billion.
° the media and critics said it was a massive mistake
° he ignored them, renamed it 𝕏, and rebuilt it into a massive platform anyway
> The Record
° now pushing AI (xAI) and trying to get humans to Mars
° changed 7 huge industries in one lifetime (Cars, Space, Internet, Social Media, etc.)
° just became the first trillionaire in human history
> The Lesson:
People will laugh when you try something new. Ignore them and build it anyway