The cryptocurrency market has fallen sharply recently, and there are not many good projects to talk about. I also like to read some celebrity biographies and business books. We should not only know how to invest and manage money, but also learn how to treat people and things, and have a correct outlook on life and values. Therefore, reading celebrity biographies is a very convenient opportunity to talk to celebrities. We can learn a lot from celebrities. Today we are talking about "Silicon Valley Iron Man". I believe many people know Elon Musk. Marvel's Iron Man is based on him. At present, Musk is engaged in multiple projects, including Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Solar City, Super High-speed Rail and Brain-computer Interface. Let's take a look at what our top Chinese entrepreneurs are thinking. For example, the community grocery shopping that was hotly discussed some time ago, major Internet giants rushed to enter, making it difficult for vegetable market vendors to survive, and even criticized by the People's Daily. And Iron Man Musk is thinking about how to send people to Mars all day long.

Musk's childhood was full of setbacks, but he was not knocked down. Instead, he became a great entrepreneur and worked hard to change the world. When he was a child, he lived in Africa, where racial discrimination was serious, black riots were frequent, and government repression led to the deaths of many black people. Musk realized that this situation was not right. When he was 12 years old, in 1984, he programmed a game called "Bomb". You know, many people didn't know what a computer looked like at that time, but he had already started programming. At the age of 14, he read a book that had a profound impact on him, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", which also explains why he later worked in space-related work.

Musk is a book lover. He often went to the library near his home to read books since he was 5 years old. By the third and fourth grades, he had read all the books in the library and persuaded the library to buy more books. He can even recite the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Musk's parents divorced when he was a child. He was very dissatisfied with his father and thought he was a terrible person. In junior high school, he was often beaten by gangsters and had a black eye, but this did not make him a weirdo. Instead, it inspired him to do meaningful things. At the age of 17, Musk got a visa to leave Africa and came to Canada. Although he did not find his uncle, he worked odd jobs for a year. In 1989, he entered Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, where he received a double degree in business and physics from the Wharton School of Business. He had excellent grades in college. Once he only scored 98 points in an exam. He argued with the teacher and finally got full marks.

His graduation thesis on the importance of solar energy was well received by professors, which was also related to the Solar City Corporation he later founded. After graduation, he devoted himself to what he learned during college. Although he was obsessed with games, he believed that the game industry could not change the world, so he chose to devote himself to the fields that could bring great changes, such as the Internet, renewable energy and space exploration.

Musk applied to Stanford University, but dropped out after only two days of the doctoral program because he felt the pace was too slow and decided to go straight to work. He worked at a supercapacitor company during the day and wrote code at a game company at night. Although he was not a professional, he had a strong ability to complete tasks. In Silicon Valley, he studied with a large number of masters and grew up quickly.

In 1995, he and his brother founded Zip2, which is equivalent to China's 3721 and is a web version of the Yellow Pages. At first, their business was very difficult and they lived in the office. In 1996, they received a $3 million investment from an investor. In February 1999, Musk sold the company and received his first pot of gold of $22 million.

In March of the same year, he invested in a company called X.COM, which later merged with PayPal to become today's PayPal. Although he was kicked out of the company by Peter Thiel, Musk did not feel resentful, but instead increased his holdings and became the largest shareholder. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal, and Musk received $250 million, about $180 million after tax. He then founded SpaceX.

Musk originally wanted to invest in NASA, but found that NASA had not made any progress since the Apollo moon landing, so he decided to do it himself. In June 2002, he founded SpaceX. At that time, the cost of rocket launches in Russia and China was much lower than that in the United States. Musk set a goal to significantly reduce the cost of rocket launches in order to realize a manned Mars mission.

SpaceX has experienced many failures, with rocket launches in November 2005 and March 2006 both failing. In 2007, rocket launches failed again, but Musk did not give up. While he was founding SpaceX, he was also working on Tesla.

In 2003, Musk met Straubel, a Stanford University student who was studying lithium battery power supply technology and overturned Musk's large capacitor power supply concept. Musk invested $10,000 to let him continue his research. In another city, he met Eberhard and Tarpenning, who founded Tesla to develop electric vehicles, but their battery technology was not up to standard. Musk decided to introduce lithium battery technology into Tesla and invested $6.9 million to become the largest shareholder.

In 2005, Tesla produced its first car, but it was full of problems. In 2007 and 2008, SpaceX's rocket launches failed again, and Musk's funds were almost exhausted. Because after the launch failed in 2007, they launched again in 2008, but it failed again. All the members burst into tears. When all the members were very frustrated, Musk did not get angry but encouraged everyone to keep working and everything would be fine. So Musk is very leadership. He tried to take responsibility and stabilize the morale of the troops at this time.

In September 2008, the Falcon 1 was successfully launched and received a $1.6 billion order from NASA, saving SpaceX and Tesla.

Elon Musk's story continues, his company continues to develop, such as the Hyperloop project, which aims to build a vacuum tube that can travel at speeds of up to 1,000 kilometers per hour. This is also part of his Mars immigration plan, as he plans to send 1 million people to Mars and needs to transport supplies from Earth.

From Musk, we can see that a person who has experienced many setbacks since childhood can still work hard, change the way humans travel, live a colorful life, and never be defeated by difficulties, and love to learn! #内容挖矿