If there is such a ability that allows you to "do whatever you want" in real life, then what do you think it will be? Today's richest man in the world Elon Musk tells you with practical actions that it must be "money ability". As a fan of Twitter (Twitter) fans, Musk has 86 million fans on the platform. His every word and deed have a huge influence on Twitter. In 2017, Musk posted a sentence "I love Twitter" on Twitter. At that time, someone responded that he "If you love it, buy it." Musk returned to "How much?" Just when everyone thought this was just a joke, on April 26, 2022, Musk announced that he had fully acquired Twitter for US$44 billion. After the acquisition was completed, Twitter became a private company, , and later changed its surname to Ma!
So how does the richest man reflect his rich and willful side? Of course, Twitter's senior management was unwilling to surrender when facing the acquisition and launched multiple boycotts, one of which was called the "Poison Pill Plan". The core of this plan is that once Musk holds more than 15% of , all other shareholders except him can buy the newly issued shares on Twitter at half price. It is to dilute equity by continuously issuing additional shares. The roughly meaning is "Twitter is all about me. If I ask me to sell it, I'm sorry, I have to add money." Musk publicly responded to this, "I still have Plan B, or I have enough money." As everyone knows the final result, Twitter executives admit defeat because "he gave too much." On October 27, 2022, after Musk officially took over Twitter, he once again showed his wealth and willfulness to the fullest - using $200 million to fire all executives.
Academic Master was born
June 28, 1971, Elon Musk was born in Pretoria in South Africa. His father was Erol Musk. He was an English-Dutch British man with mixed race. He worked as an electromechanical engineer in South Africa. He was also a rich man who was keen on traveling. When he was a child, Musk often traveled around the world with his father and obtained his flight license early. My mother is named Meyer . She was born in Canada and is a model. She also works as a writer and nutritionist . In 1980, Elon Musk lived with his father after his parents divorced. During this period, Musk described it as "very unhappy" in his autobiography and mentioned it very little, perhaps this also led to something different from other children later.
Musk had read a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannia in his third grade, and his knowledge and knowledge exceeded those of his peers, so he often talked to death and caused a distraction when chatting. In 1981, the 10-year-old Musk owned the first computer in his life and learned programming through a programming teaching book. From then on, Musk turned into an otaku and studied software day and night. In 1983, 12-year-old Musk successfully designed a space game software called "Blastar", and then sold it to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500, making his first pot of gold in his life. In 1988, 17-year-old Musk left his family after graduating from Pretoria boys' high school and went to Canada alone to live in his mother's relative's home.
In 1989, Musk obtained Canadian nationality and applied to Queen's University in Ontario the following year. In 1992, Musk relied on a scholarship to study economics at the Wharton School of Pennsylvania. During his university years, Musk began to pay close attention to three areas that affect the future development of mankind, including the Internet, clean energy, and space. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics, Musk stayed at school for another year and received a bachelor's degree in physics . In 1995, Musk, 24, entered the at Stanford University to study for a doctoral program in materials science and applied physics, but on the second day after admission, Musk decided to leave school and start a business.
The road to becoming richest man
Founded ZIP2
1995, Muskra's younger brother Kamba Musk founded Zip2 with a small investment.Due to the shortage of funds at that time, Musk had to act as an programmer himself, and his younger brother acted as a salesperson. Musk convinced electronic navigation map provider Navteq to provide free map software. He then wrote the code he needed to put two databases (business list and map) together. Between 1996 and 1997, Zip2's team developed a software package to sell it to newspaper companies, which could rely on to create their own real estate developers, car dealers and various classified ad catalogs. Soon, Zip2 achieved great success in the field of news. In 1999, this software company similar to comments + maps was acquired by computer manufacturer Combat for US$340 million. After the company founded
Founded Paypal
, Musk became a millionaire. He immediately took out $10 million to start an online financial services and email payment business with two others. "X.Com", a company similar to the American version of Alipay merged with its competitor Confinity in 2000, and its name was changed to Paypal ( Paypal ). In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by ebay ( eBay), the world's largest e-commerce company at that time, for US$1.5 billion, and Musk's 11.7% stake received US$165 million. After that, Musk left the company due to his loss of management, but Musk spent three years becoming a billionaire.
Founded Space X
In June 2002, Musk established SpaceX (Space Exploration Technology) company to implement Musk's early "Mars Oasis" plan. As early as 2001, Musk tried to purchase missile launch vehicles from Russia, but the transaction was not completed because the prices given by the supplier far exceeded Musk's budget. On the return flight, Musk handed his laptop to his peers and was stunned: the tables Musk made detailed the costs of building, assemblage and launching a rocket. According to Musk's calculations, he needs to build a rocket of moderate size to meet the market needs of those small satellite and scientific research payloads, which can save a launch cost. After returning to the United States, he started reading books and studying Rockets. Finally, he found that it was not difficult to build Rockets. He divided them into one, two, three, and four points, and finally assembled into Rockets. Not only that, he also moved his home to Los Angeles, where the space industry is relatively developed. Musk has joined many small circles of exchanges of aerospace technology talents here. Through reading books and asking questions, Musk has figured out the principle of rocket launch in just one year. It is because of this learning method that makes Elon Musk an expert in the field of rockets. I really kneel down for such a technical tycoon.
In 2006, the Falcon 1 rocket was successfully developed, but the subsequent three test shots ended in failure. As the economic crisis came in 2008, SpaceX's financial situation was already stretched and could not raise funds. Musk made all his money on the fourth Rocket launch. If he failed, he would have nothing. On September 28, 2008, SpaceX finally successfully launched Falcon 1, becoming the world's first private commercial space company to achieve rocket launch into orbit. Musk accomplished something that no one else could do with the whole country, and SpaceX became the fourth unit after China, the United States and Russia to launch rockets independently. On December 8, 2010, the Falcon 9 , carrying the Dragon spacecraft, was successfully launched, marking the world's first privately developed spacecraft to be successfully launched into orbit and recovered. On January 7, 2020, SpaceX became the world's largest satellite operator. On May 30, 2020, SpaceX became the world's first private company to carry astronauts to and from International Space Station .
Strengthen Tesla
2004, the electric vehicle technology at that time was still very immature, and the startup Tesla was anxious about financing. Because the founder had no experience in electric vehicle manufacturing, this company with only a few dozen people and no products was almost on the verge of bankruptcy. Finally, I met Musk through the introduction. Musk immediately invested $6.3 million and became the chairman.After becoming chairman, he was not very satisfied with the company's existing architecture and product design concepts, so he worked as a CEO and product architect. Tesla only launched its first product, Roadster, in 2008, and is positioned as sports car .
Although it broke the shackles of technology and became the world's first publicly sold lithium battery car, its sales were only about 2,000 units. And due to poor cost control, selling a car will cost 10,000 US dollars. In order to prevent Tesla from going bankrupt, Musk took out his entire net worth of $60 million and convinced Mercedes-Benz Group to invest $70 million to overcome the difficulties. In 2010, Tesla successfully listed on Nasdaq, and Musk won $630 million in one fell swoop. On June 22, 2012, the first "Model S" at the Tesla factory in California, USA was officially delivered, and the range reached 500KM. The launch of this legendary vehicle marks Tesla's entry into the Bangzhuang Avenue.
In 2015, Tesla launched the SUV "Model X" with folding doors. In 2016, Tesla's revenue reached US$7 billion and launched the "Model 3". In November of the same year, Tesla acquired the American "Sun City" company and entered the photovoltaic industry. Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory was launched in September 2018. In the same year, Tesla was shortlisted for the top 500 brands in the 2018 world, ranking 81st. In November 2021, Tesla's market value exceeded US$1.2 trillion, and Musk also achieved a net worth of US$320 billion and became the well-deserved richest man in the world.
In addition, Musk also owns the Starlink company, which is right, Ukraine uses to deal with Russia. Musk asked the US government for usage fees. Starlink Company plans to build a "Starlink" network of about 12,000 satellites in space between 2019 and 2024, of which 1,584 will be deployed in low-Earth orbit 550 kilometers above the earth, and will start working from 2020. On January 16, 2022, Musk disclosed on social media that 1,469 "Starlink" satellites are in operation and 272 are entering orbit, and the satellite's laser link communication will be activated soon.
and NeurLink, a research object of brain-computer interface technology. The brain-computer interface is to implant extremely small electrodes into the brain and use current to "interact" between computers and brain cells. Simply put, it is to create a USB interface for the human brain, which can copy knowledge, memory and other information in or out like a computer and USB drive. If this experiment is successful, it will completely subvert human life and history and there will be no need to take exams in the future.
and capsule train company, which is a company that studies super high-speed rail . The principle is similar to a magnetic levitation train in a vacuum-enclosed pipeline, with a speed of up to 5000KM/hour. If the research is successful, it only takes 2 hours to get from New York to Beijing and only 3 hours to travel around the world.
As the most powerful dreamer in the world, Musk put his theories into practice one by one. In a sense, all his unconventional actions are under his logical core of "benefiting mankind". Whether it is trying to build a rocket with a browse, Tesla has been developing for several years under the pressure of being unable to mass production, or it is now promising to complete the delisting plan with a huge funding gap, Musk is still the once silent and introverted little boy. He likes to watch cosmic adventure stories and wants to be a superhero who saves mankind.
