How did Musk, who once lost his fortune developing rockets, later become the second richest man in the world?

At 3pm on May 30th, 2020, elon musk's space exploration company successfully launched the first commercial manned spacecraft in human history-DM-2 Dragon Spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. This means that his Mars migration plan, which sounded extremely rampant in the past, is gradually coming to completion. Musk not only became the only private startup that turned a commercial manned spacecraft into an ideal, but also his Tesla electric car was never optimistic about leading the industry benchmark in just a few years and became a leader in new energy vehicles with a market value of 500 billion. Musk therefore surpassed Bill Gates and became the second richest man in the world. Musk's victory has therefore attracted the envy and worship of many people. But most of these people worship Musk's fame, endless wealth and handsome face value, but rarely see the efforts behind his victory!

So how embarrassing is Musk's life, and can he gain the admiration of hundreds of millions of fans?

Like many boys, Musk had the fantasy of becoming an astronaut and flying into space in his childhood. It's just that most people, with the growth of time, are willing to be idle and willing to be ordinary. But in order to fulfill his fantasy, he worked hard and persevered from time to time, which is probably the key to his victory.

Musk was born in a very wealthy white Boer family in South Africa. His father and grandfather each have a private jet, which often takes him to overlook the earth from the plane, which makes him very adventurous since he was a child. Because of his love for consideration, he is often lost in thought, forgetting everything around him, walking as slowly as a deaf-mute person, being bullied at school and being pushed down the stairs.

10 years old, Musk got the first computer in his life. He completed six months of basic courses in three days. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, he made his first personal game Blastar, which cost 500 dollars and earned the first pot of gold in his life. /kloc-When he was 0/4 years old, after reading the Guide to the Galaxy, he began to fantasize about going to space and took saving mankind as his task.

Unlike ordinary entrepreneurs who pay more attention to financing and realization, a great god like Musk is concerned about whether entrepreneurial projects can change the world.

As early as 1995, Musk and his younger brother started a website called ZIP2, which was similar to the earliest Alibaba. Four years later, he sold the company and earned $22 million. Later, he established an online payment website, which was acquired by Yi Bei and acquired 65.438+65 billion shares.

With money, Musk began to ponder his childhood fantasies about rockets and space travel. He is very interested in Mars, but after searching the official website of NASA, he didn't find any plans in this regard. So surrendering to Mars and finding a new home for mankind became his new purpose. To this end, he founded Space X, a space exploration technology company.

To go into space, you must first have a rocket, but the cheapest rocket in the United States at that time also cost 65 million dollars. If you want two pieces, Musk will have little left in the early stage.

So, after repeated calculations, he made a bold decision to build his own rocket. You know rockets are no better than cars and planes. If you want to cultivate something that can be created, you need the whole country to do it, but Musk decided to do it himself. During this period, he met electric car enthusiast Straubel. The two met late, so they started a Tesla car in partnership. In the early days of Tesla, while ensuring the development of rockets, Musk simply put everything into Tesla cars and put every step of his strategy under his control. He knows that batteries are the life of electric vehicles, so he increases the research and development of super batteries from time to time, and finally makes Tesla rank first among new energy electric vehicles in the world.

In addition, he and his cousin also made a project of "Sun City", which used solar energy instead of electric energy to obtain clean energy from time to time, to ensure that the earth's resources would not be drained, and the whole world would be more environmentally friendly and healthy.

Musk's rocket development is not a good thing. By the end of 2008, the rocket Falcon 1 named after him exploded three times in a row after taking off, and his family was simply exhausted. In order to realize his space dream, he had to borrow money from Tesla to space companies to maintain R&D and manufacturing.

Tesla's situation is not very good either. He underestimated the research and development cost of electric vehicles, and as a result, the cost of the whole vehicle was higher than the selling price. Although the price was raised later, consumers did not buy it, and the sales volume never went up.

It is speculated that Musk was poor after bankruptcy, but the fourth rocket launch won, Falcon 1 entered the scheduled orbit, and Space Exploration Company became the service provider of the International Space Station, and in a blink of an eye, it won an order of 654.38+06 billion US dollars. Moreover, the cost of manufacturing and launching rockets is only 1/50 of the price of selling rockets in the United States, and Musk made a lot of money in the blink of an eye. At the same time, Tesla also went public, which made him earn 630 million dollars on the opening day.

With the launch of the rocket, Tesla and Sun City projects were sought after by the market under the synergistic effect, and the market value brought by the three projects quickly made Musk the second richest man in the world. But he is not satisfied. He plans to build a better propeller and a bigger spaceship in 2025 to realize his dream of sending people and goods to Mars.

He intends to establish a self-sufficient colony on Mars, and then people will sell the wealth on the earth and move to Mars as much as possible. Get a job there and live like on earth. As for the cost of going to Mars, he intends to set the per capita price between $500,000 and $6,543.8+0,000.