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Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world with a net worth of $187 billion. Here's how the Tesla and SpaceX CEO went from getting bullied as a child to becoming one of the most successful and controversial men in tech.
- Elon Musk has had a tumultuous yet successful life.
- He was bullied as a child but ultimately attended an Ivy League university, going on to become the CEO of two companies, Tesla and SpaceX, and the founder of three more.
- He's also been married three times and has triplets and twins. He just had another baby with his girlfriend, the musician Grimes.
- But Musk also courts controversy, especially on Twitter. The tech billionaire has been outspoken about the coronavirus crisis, urging businesses to reopen and announcing he would antatic blogs.
As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and
cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink, Musk seems to be everywhere all at once,
pushing all kinds of futuristic technologies.
Between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, and the billions he's
made along the way, Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark —
which is why he served as an inspiration for Marvel's 2008 "Iron Man" film.But it hasn't always been smooth sailing for Musk. Here's how he went from
getting bullied in school to becoming a small-time entrepreneur and
eventually the CEO of two major companies that seem like
they're straight out of science fiction — and how he almost went broke along
the way.This is an update to an article originally published in August .
Katie Canales contributed to an earlier version of this story.Since then, Musk has gone on to promote a malaria drug as a potential
treatment for COVID-19 patients despite a lack of scientific proof, has
and has promoted misinformation, such as a tweet that said "kids are
essentially immune" from the virus.
"If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me," Musk said in early May.
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Elon musk This is story something life but no whole story of life In November 2019, Musk debuted a new Tesla vehicle: the Cybertruck, Tesla's first — and very highly anticipated — pickup truck. Since the unveiling, Musk has been spotted a few times cruising around in the truck, including on a night out to dinner at Nobu with Grimes.TESLA & SPACE X The year was a bit rocky from a political standpoint as well. Musk joined President Trump's business advisory council, a move which caused a huge public backlash. He initially defended the move, but he quit after Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Musk said he tried to convince Trump not to withdraw.Musk can't stop coming up with new ideas, either, like the Hyperloop. A super-high-speed train that travels in a vacuum tube, the Hyperloop could theoretically transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.The Falcon Heavy, the successor to the Falcon 9 and the most powerful rocket SpaceX has built to date, completed a successful maiden launch in February 2018. The Falcon Heavy carried a unique payload: a dummy dubbed "Starman," and Musk's personal cherry red Tesla Roadster, which were launched toward Martian orbit.Elon MUSK MOTIVATION STORY By June 2010, Tesla held a successful initial public offering. The company raised $226 million in the IPO, becoming the first car company to go public since Ford in 1956. To get his finances back on track, Musk sold shares worth about $15 million in the offering.Right around Christmas 2008, Musk got two pieces of good news: SpaceX had landed a $1.5 billion contract with NASA to deliver supplies into space, and Tesla finally found more outside investors. Musk's mother, Maye, is a professional dietitian and model. She has appeared on boxes of Special K cereal and the cover of Time magazine. In 2017, at the age of 69, she landed a contract with CoverGirl.And last my think every person become a rich use your head antaticblogs your life in your hand AND ONE DAY I READ YOUR STORY. so please try and try and try |
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