The growth process of Musk?

"The growth process of Musk is divided into two parts, the influence of his early family and social environment, and his own efforts as an adult."

First, early experience

On June 28th, elon musk was born in Pretoria. His father is an Anglo-Dutch mixed-race electromechanical engineer in South Africa, and his mother was born in Canada. She is a model, a writer and a nutritionist. From 65438 to 0980, elon musk lived with his father after his parents divorced. Inspired by his father, elon musk was obsessed with technology when he was a child.

2. 198 1 year, 10 elon musk bought his first computer with his pocket money and some funds sponsored by his father, and then bought a programming textbook to learn programming.

3. 1983 12-year-old elon musk successfully designed a space game software called "Blastar", and then sold it to a PC and an Office science magazine for $500, earning the first pot of gold in his life.

4. 1988, 17-year-old elon musk left his family after graduating from Pretoria boys' high school and went to Canada alone to go to his mother's relatives.

5. 1989, elon musk obtained Canadian citizenship and applied for admission to Queen's University in Ontario the following year.

6.65438-0992 elon musk transferred to Wharton Business School to study economics on a scholarship. Elon musk began to pay attention to the Internet, clean energy and space, which affect the future development of mankind. After getting a bachelor's degree in economics, elon musk stayed in school for another year and got a bachelor's degree in physics.

7. From 65438 to 0995, 24-year-old elon musk entered Stanford University to study for a master's degree in materials science and applied physics, but the day after he entered the school, elon musk decided to drop out and start a business.

Second, investment and entrepreneurship.

1 and1In 995, after elon musk dropped out of school, he and his younger brother Kimbal Musk, together with a small group of random angels from Silicon Valley, set up Zip2, a company that developed online content publishing software for news organizations. At that time, The New York Times and The Chicago Post became customers of the Musk Brothers.

2. 1999, Compaq, an American computer manufacturer, bought Zip2 Company with $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options, and elon musk, 28, made a profit of $22 million in this acquisition. In March of the same year, elon musk invested US$ 654.38+0 billion to establish X.com, an online financial service and e-mail payment business company with two partners from Silicon Valley.

3. In 2000, in order to solve the competition of online fast transfer business, elon musk merged X.com Company with Confinity Company founded by Peter Tiller and Max Levchin, and the new company was renamed PayPal in February of the following year.

4. In June, 2002, PayPal, which specializes in mobile payment, wholly acquired Yi Bei Yi Bei Company, the largest online merchant company in the world at that time, for 65.438+0.5 billion dollars. Elon musk is the largest shareholder of PayPal, with 654.38+065.438+0.7% equity, and got $65.438+65 billion. [4] However, after the transaction was completed, several core members of PayPal left, and elon musk took over as CEO after peter teale left, but elon musk was expelled from the company after the internal struggle failed.

5.200 1 At the beginning of the year, elon musk planned a project called "Mars Oasis" when he was still in PayPal, and planned to build a small experimental greenhouse on Mars, so that crops from the earth could try to grow in Martian soil. However, elon musk later found that the cost of buying launch vehicles from Aeroflot was much higher than the cost of developing their own rockets, so elon musk suspended the implementation of the plan.

6. In June 2002, elon musk established Space X Company as CEO and Chief Technology Officer, and elon musk began to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launch, and planned to immigrate to Mars in the future to establish a real space civilization for mankind.

7. In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, founded by martin eberhard, and served as the chairman of the company. Tesla is a company that manufactures high-end electric sports cars. Musk's investment in it is obviously based on his love for electric vehicles and his optimism about this market. Because of management problems and the stumbling of the production process of the first sports car, Musk invested all his money in research and development.

In 2005, 34-year-old Musk was worth more than 300 million dollars. When he was less than 40 years old, the three ideals of Internet, clean energy and space had been realized.

9. In 2008, when the financial crisis broke out, Musk also ushered in a low point in his life. His rocket failed three times, and tens of millions of dollars of investment turned into a fireball after the explosion. Tesla is also on the verge of bankruptcy because of high research and development costs.

10 and 20 10 In June, Tesla went public on NASDAQ, and successfully completed the IPO, raising about $654.38+84 million. A few days before listing, The New York Times reported that Musk was on the verge of bankruptcy. After the listing, Musk earned $630 million on the books. Tesla became the first American automobile manufacturer listed since Ford 1956 IPO, and the only independent manufacturer of pure electric vehicles listed in the United States. Space exploration technology company has been profitable since 2007. Tesla obtained a low-interest loan of $465 million from the US Department of Energy, and sold several electric sports cars at a price of $654.38 million+each, becoming a battery supplier of Mercedes-Benz Smart cars. Both Toyota and Mercedes-Benz have invested in Tesla, but his book wealth is still insufficient.