Elon Musk says he didn't become an entrepreneur in order to be financially successful but he wanted to profoundly change the world for better. The life story of Elon Musk from an awkward teenager to the most successful inventor, entrepreneur and space explorer recites a thrilling science fiction epic. It’s no surprise that the makers of Ironman found Musk an inspiration for Tony Stark, a character played on screen by Robert Downey Jr.
Born in South Africa, a brilliant engineer, and entrepreneur with vision uncommon to the rest of the world, Elon had humble beginnings, and he always bounced back with the next great idea. He sold his first game program at the age of 12, he moved to Canada at the age of 17, in 1989 to attend Queen’s University and later joined the University of Pennsylvania to study business and physics. He later dropped out after his second day at Stanford to launch his first startup which was sold for a whopping $341 million in cash and stock.
What would a young guy in his early twenties swimming in the unimaginable amount of money do? Yes! Invest those million in his own dreams, that’s what Elon did. His biggest acts were yet to come.
He found X.com which later became PayPal.com which was sold to E-bay in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion. Never one to rest on his achievements he founded his third venture SpaceX with an intention to build spacecraft for commercial space travel. Another revolutionary venture Elon Musk had in store for the world was affordable electric cars to help humanity to break away from the dependence on fossil fuels, Tesla Motors. His story is one classic example of how one must never abandon his/her dreams in life. No matter where life takes us, our determination will take us to that final destination in life where all dreams come true.
Elon’s ideas and visions became true only because he never stopped trying after countless failures and losses. He didn’t relinquish his dreams for the future. Like Elon Musk, we must also continue to pursue our dreams and goals both big and small, assume the risk and step in with courage, it will surely be rewarded with success.
