Please speak more seriously. . . . Musk is also known as Elon Musk (Elon Musk) was born in South Africa on June 28, 1971, and immigrated to Canada when he was 18 years old. Engineer, philanthropist, CEO of four companies: PayPal (the largest online payment company), SpaceX space exploration technology company, environmentally friendly sports car company Tesla (Tesla) and SolarCity. CEO and CTO of spacex space exploration technology company, product designer of environmentally friendly sports car company Tesla (Tesla).

Elon Musk graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in economics and physics. From 1995 to 2000, Elon Musk and his partners founded three companies, namely the online content publishing software "Zip2", the electronic payment "X.com", and the international trade payment tool "PayPal".

In June 2002, Elon Musk invested US$100 million to found the American Space Exploration Technology Company and served as CEO and chief technology officer. In 2004, Elon Musk invested US$6.3 million in Tesla Motors and became the company's chairman.

In 2006, Elon Musk invested US$10 million and co-founded the photovoltaic power generation company Solar City Company with his partners.

In June 2011, Musk celebrated his 40th birthday. In 40 years, he successfully transformed himself from a South African to an American; he successfully designed and sold a video game (When he was 12 years old); Obtained two bachelor's degrees; Participated in the design and sale of the first content publishing platform in the Internet era; Served as the chairman of Solar City, the largest private solar provider in the United States; Participated in the creation and investment of Paypal, the world's largest online payment platform; participated in the design of a new rocket that can send aircraft to the space station, with the lowest price in the world and the shortest development time in the world; invested in the creation and production of the world's first electric sports car that can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles in 3 seconds company and successfully mass-produced it.

On May 31, 2012, the "Dragon" capsule of Musk's company SpaceX successfully docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth, ushering in the era of private operation of space transportation.

On November 21, 2013, the famous American financial magazine "Fortune" announced the "Business Figure of the Year 2013", and Tesla Motors CEO Musk topped the list.

At 9:29 on December 22, 2015, SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket and made history by perfectly recovering the first stage of the rocket 10 minutes after launch.

On September 22, 2016, Elon Musk ranked 11th on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s 50 most influential people.

On December 14, 2016, he won the honor of "The Most Influential CEO in 2016".

On December 4, 2017, he ranked 43rd on the 2017 Bloomberg Businessweek list of the world's 50 most influential people.

At 4:45 on February 7, 2018, Beijing time, Musk's space exploration company SpaceX successfully launched and recovered a "Falcon Heavy" rocket. This is the company's largest rocket to date. It is also the most powerful carrier launch system in the world. The rocket carries a Tesla Roadster sports car and a dummy wearing a space suit and is currently moving toward the asteroid belt along a heliocentric orbit.

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Character Events

Growth and Learning

On June 28, 1971, Musk was in Pretor, South Africa Leah was born, his father is a southern mechanical and electrical engineer, and his mother is a Canadian who is a nutritionist and model.

In 1981, at the age of 10, Musk got his first computer and learned software programming.

In 1983, at the age of 12, he successfully designed a game called "Blastar" and offered the commercial software a price of US$500.

In 1988, at the age of 17, he went to Canada, and his final dream destination was the United States.

In 1992, he entered the University of Pennsylvania on a scholarship.

In 1999, Musk sold his first company, ZIP2, to Compaq for $341 million plus options.

In the same year, Musk founded X.COM, which eventually developed into today's PayPal. Musk sold X.COM to EBAY for $1.5 billion.

Invest and start a business

In 2001, he planned a project called "Mars Oasis", planning to land this small experimental greenhouse on Mars. There are crops growing in Martian soil. However, when he found that the launch cost was much higher than the R&D and engineering costs of the project, he put the project on hold and ideally turned himself into a rocket expert.

One day in January 2002, Musk turned 30 years old. Musk had studied physics in college, but he was not a rocket expert. But when faced with the news that Paypal was about to go public, he had a book on the basic principles of rocket propulsion in his hand. Later, Paypal did not go public.

In October 2002, eBay used 1.5 billion shares to acquire Paypal, of which Musk owned 11.7 shares, equivalent to approximately US$328 million. Four months before that, he founded SpaceX to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launches. He immediately invested $100 million in SpaceX. His ambition is to reduce launch costs to 1/10 of the commercial space launch market, and plans to develop the world's largest rocket for interstellar immigration in the future.

In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, a company founded by Martin Eberhard, and he served as the company's chairman. 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 production process of the first sports car, Musk invested all his money in research and development.

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

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

In June 2010, Tesla was listed on Nasdaq and successfully completed its IPO, raising net funds of approximately US$184 million. A few days before the listing, the New York Times broke the news that Musk was on the verge of bankruptcy. After going public, Musk made $630 million on paper. Tesla became the first U.S. automaker to go public since Ford Motor's IPO in 1956, and the only independent manufacturer of pure electric vehicles to go public in the United States. SpaceX has been profitable since 2007. Tesla received a low-interest loan of US$465 million from the US Department of Energy, sold a number of electric sports cars for US$100,000 each, and became a battery supplier for Mercedes-Benz Smart cars. Both Toyota and Mercedes-Benz have invested in Tesla, but his paper wealth is still not sufficient.

On December 8, 2010, the Falcon 9 rocket developed by Musk's SpaceX space exploration technology company successfully launched the Dragon spacecraft into Earth orbit. This was the first launch by a private company in the world's history. A spacecraft that can go to space and return smoothly. The entire aerospace community was shocked. According to NASA's plan, when all U.S. space shuttles are retired in 2011, they will rely on private companies like SpaceX to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

In 2011, Elon Musk admitted that betting the entire future on rockets and electric cars was risky. But he changed the topic and said that not being so involved would be the biggest risk, because the hope of success is zero.

With his own capital accumulation, Musk founded two companies, SpaceX and Solar City, and served as their CEO.

The Boring Company was established in December 2016 as a rail transit company to solve ground congestion problems. According to Musk's vision, he will install a "pallet" on the ground for parking the car. After the car is parked, the pallet will drop to the ground and transport the car quickly between underground tunnels, with the fastest speed even reaching 200 kilometers per hour.

On June 1, 2017, half an hour after Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced his resignation from Trump’s advisory board.

In early 2017, he announced plans to build a larger rocket to prepare for the launch of the Mars colonization plan in 2022. He admitted that the timetable was "ambitious". The project is codenamed "Very Large Rocket" (BFR).

On December 4, 2017, he ranked 43rd on the 2017 Bloomberg Businessweek list of the world's 50 most influential people.

Invest in Movies

Elon Musk has a close relationship with Hollywood. Movie star George Clooney and director Cameron are all his guests. Searching for his name in the Internet Movie Database yields a long list of results. Musk has served as a producer on three films.

In 2000, Elon Musk's sister Tosca Musk established the independent film production company "Musk Entertainment", and Elon Musk produced the first movie "Quiz" Producer of other notable films such as 2005's "Thank you for smoking", the 1994 Dassault Falcon 900 aircraft featured in the film was registered to his name. In addition, he has guest-starred as himself in 7 movies and TV series.

When the director of Iron Man approached Elon Musk in order to enrich the role, he expressed strong interest in being a producer. Some of the scenes in the film were shot in the empty factory area of ??SpaceX headquarters. In the subtitles, Elon Musk's name is listed in the "Special Thanks" column.

Mars Oasis

Musk studied physics in college, but he is not a rocket expert. In early 2001, Musk planned a project called the "Mars Oasis", which planned to land a small experimental greenhouse on Mars, including crops to grow in Martian soil. However, when he found that the launch cost was much higher than the R&D and engineering costs of the project, he suspended the project. He decided to set up a company first to study how to reduce launch costs. This is SpaceX.

The world’s first spacecraft developed by a private company

After SpaceX was established in 2002, many critics believed that Musk could not succeed, which is why Musk named it after the mythical image of “Dragon” The reason for the spaceship. The "Dragon" spacecraft is designed with 7 seats and a wide cargo bay. Its overall appearance is in the shape of a "bullet". It is one of the few commercial spacecrafts in the world and the world's first spacecraft developed by a private company. [7] In 2011, NASA signed a contract worth US$1.6 billion with SpaceX. SpaceX will provide 12 transportation and supply missions for American astronauts. This gives SpaceX a price advantage of more than $200 million over rival Orbital Sciences. SpaceX's goal is to minimize the cost of space transportation. In order to reduce costs, SpaceX even purchased second-hand instruments online and found the cheapest salvage company to salvage the rocket debris.

Personal life

Elon Musk’s name often appears in entertainment reports. In the public eye, Musk often appears as a playboy. For example, he once used 100 He bought a McLaren F1 sports car for 10,000 U.S. dollars, used private jets, and could not stay with a woman for long. Both of his marriages ended in breakup, with the second ending not long ago.

Elon Musk is far less cool than Iron Man. Musk is not only a technology fanatic, but also a workaholic. He works more than 100 hours a week. He is extremely busy, often lying down at 3 o'clock at night. He has to rush to a meeting early the next morning, fly to another city to participate in an event in the evening, and still have to find time to play with his five sons. In an interview, he specifically clarified that his original intention of starting SpaceX was not the childhood complex that some people take for granted, nor was it because of its high return on investment, but because it would be of great benefit to the future of mankind.

Sometimes, his personality can cause him trouble. He was sued for defamation by Tesla's co-founder Martin Eberhard, and eventually settled out of court.

Social Evaluation

Elon Musk’s friends commented that he is a person with extremely clear goals and he is used to seeing the world from an engineer’s perspective. Adeo Ressi, his roommate at the University of Pennsylvania, said that he is also a crazy entrepreneur. When they were in college, the two once opened a nightclub. Every time the police called, Musk always responded calmly.

When he was in college, he often thought about what are the real problems facing the world and which ones will affect the future of mankind. He is bullish on the internet, sustainable energy and space exploration. Later, he entered these three fields as promised and dropped three blockbusters in succession: PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX.

"As long as he sees something good, he will keep working hard until he reaches his goal." Ressi said.

He will spare no effort to fight back against those who oppose him, making no secret of his true thoughts.

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Character Quotes

1. When something is important enough, you will do it, even if the chance of winning is slim.

2. Tesla does not have any advertising or celebrity endorsement fees. No, we do not offer discounts. If a celebrity comes to buy our car because they like it, it is not us. Give them a discount. In fact, I don’t like the concept of marketing. I think marketing is a very strange concept and I don’t like it. I feel like marketing is just about tricking people into buying something.

3. In the spirit of the open source movement, in order to help competitors catch up, Tesla's patents will be opened up, and legal action will not be taken against anyone who uses Tesla's patented technology, with the goal of promoting electric Advances in automotive technology.

4. If I don’t invest so much, it will be the biggest risk, because the hope of success is zero.

5. Several important things in starting a business: first, work hard; second, attract outstanding talents; third, focus on making products and services better; fourth, do not just follow the big guys. The trend goes.

6. Running a business is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death, if that seems appealing.

7. A person either joins a company where elites gather and respect talents, or works with a group of rabble. In most cases, the success of a company is the result of a group of excellent people coming together to make a great product. No matter how talented this group of people is, they must work together and focus on the right product direction to achieve great success.

8. I am not saying that we must destroy and engage in disruptive innovation, but there are some very important things that need to be achieved. In order to achieve this goal, if there must be some subversion, I will do it... What really encourages me is that when I want to carry out disruptive innovation, I will do the necessary subversion and necessary destruction.

9. I hope I can die on Mars - of course not falling to death when entering the Martian atmosphere.

10. You can have a very cheap but very stable car, and the same rule applies to rockets.

11. If something is very important to you, you should stick to it even if everyone is against you.

12. After selling PayPal, I have been thinking: What other problems are most likely to affect the future of mankind? And not just from a “best way to make money” perspective.

13. Physics is a good framework for thinking... trace to the essence of things, and then think and judge from there.

14. Only by first seeing the possibility of something will there be a chance of it happening.

15. You can put all your eggs in the same basket, but only if you can control what happens in the basket.

16. Persistence is very important, never give up unless you have to.

17. You always imagine that your future will be better, no one expects that the future will be worse.

18. It is often a mistake to hire many people to do a complex thing. Quantity can never make up for quality advantages, and more people will reduce efficiency and increase task costs.

19. If you go back hundreds of years, everything we have now seems like incredible magic miracles, such as being able to talk over long distances, transmit pictures, fly, access Oracle's huge data, etc.

20. The biggest mistake I made was overvaluing people’s talents instead of their character. I think having a kind heart is crucial.

21. When I was in college, I always wanted to be involved in doing things that could change the world. And now I'm getting involved.

22. I think feedback loop is very important, so that you can know in time how you are doing and whether you can do better. The best advice is: Ask yourself repeatedly, can I do better?

23. I dare not say that I have never been worried or scared. I actually wish I had less to worry about because it distracts me and puts a strain on my nervous system.

24. Life is too short to bear endless grudges.

25. Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

26. I think an ordinary person can choose to be extraordinary.

27. I either watch or participate.

28. About my favorite book as a teenager, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": It taught me that the hardest thing is to ask questions. Once you do that, the rest will become easy.

29. I just hope to retire before I get old, otherwise I will just become a burden.