Know-it-all Elon Musk, whose nose was broken by classmates as a child, has three ambitious goals. He has already practically implemented one, turning Internet banking into a thing available almost everywhere. All that remains is to stop global warming and send people to Mars #ИлонМаск
Forbes presents a new video project - “Invest Like a Billionaire.” It is not easy to earn a large fortune, but it is much more difficult to maintain it, much less increase it. Investment bankers and analysts spoke to Forbes about how the world's richest people achieved success and how their investment strategies and approaches to doing business differ. The hero of the sixth episode is the main inventor of our time, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. When Elon was ten years old, his parents - a Canadian model and a South African electrical engineer - divorced, and the children (and Musk had a brother and sister) began to live mainly with their father in Africa. According to the Washington Post, Musk's father was a tough man and treated his children accordingly, for example, forcing them to sit silently for hours and listen to his moral teachings. The situation was no better at school. Classmates laughed and mocked the introverted nerd Elon, and once beat him so badly that he had to have his broken nose repaired in the hospital. Musk became increasingly withdrawn into himself, and the computer became his outlet. He learned to program on a simple Commodore VIC-20 home computer and even developed a space arcade game called Blastar, selling which he earned his first $500. It can still be played here.
At the age of 17, Elon Musk left for Canada to avoid conscription and to avoid apartheid politics. He first attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and two years later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received bachelor's degrees in physics and economics from the Wharton School. Musk later said that physics gave him a very good structure of thinking: first break things down to their fundamental principles, and then build on them. Musk then entered Stanford's PhD program, only to drop out after a couple of days to focus on his startup Zip2, which combined city maps and Yellow Pages data. Two years later, the sale of Zip2 brought Musk $22 million#успех #крипта