Elon Musk, with a present worth of 20.9 Billion dollar, is one of the most influential and inspiring person in the world. His life is a source of great motivation for all those who dream big and who wish to leave their impact on the world.
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This ever smiling man has seen a lot of hardships in his life but his desires to reach to his dreams always kept him on the top.
In this school life he was bullied by his seniors, once he was so brutally beaten up by them that he went unconscious. Little did they know that they had thrashed a future billionaire.
There are many people who aspire to take admission into Stanford University, but then there was Elon Musk who left Stanford just after 2 days of taking admission. He always had an inclination towards computers and programming and had made a video game named Blastar. He made this game at the age of 12, when most of us are asking for pocket money from our parents, Elon had sold this game for $500, quiet an achievement for a 12 year old.
The next big thing after dropping out of Stanford was utilizing the evolving and the very sought after technology, the Internet. He created a $307 million worth company named Zip2 which helped people get excess to online newspapers and maps. After selling Zip2, Elon finally created today's one of the crucial online payment company, the PayPal. It was originally known as X.com. It was Elon's first company to have a worth in Billions.
Paypal was eventually taken over by eBay. After a series of creating companies and selling it, Elon founded the Tesla Motor. The aim of this company was to create cars that run on one of the renewable energy resources, the solar energy. The world witnessed Elon Musk's inclination towards solar energy and creating a pollution free world, when he became part of the company named SolarCity. Elon desires to make solar energy more efficient and with his incredible research ability he surely would do that.
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Elon was not behind in creating a space dedicated company, the SpaceX, when he learnt about the huge cost of space rockets and having a will to reduce its cost. There were several challenging situations that Elon faced, but he kept pushing hard to successfully send his rocket into space after 2 unsuccessful launches. It would have been so tough for him, as he was investing his own money for creating and launching these rockets. His determination certainly won.
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Elon Musk has also shown interest towards superspeedy transportation, the Hyperloop. He has allowed any company to use his technology for Hyperloop, all for free, such is his desire to make an impact on the world.
With all that happening in his professional life, his private life wasn't too easy going either, it was full of ups and downs, he is married thrice and has 5 children. With all those twists, Elon finds time to put into all his three technologies, the SpaceX, the Tesla Motors and the Hyperloop. One can surely take time management lessons from him.
Even in his mid 40's, Elon keeps inspiring us and keeps filling us up with the thrill for technology.
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