Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and developed an interest in computers at an early age.

At age 12, he wrote a video game called Blastar and sold it to a gaming magazine for $500.

But Musk had a very difficult childhood. He was the "nerd" in the class and was often bullied.

On one occasion, he was pushed down a flight of stairs, which resulted in him being hospitalized for two weeks.

After graduating from high school, in order to avoid military service, he immigrated to Canada, where he studied for a year before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a double degree in physics and economics.

In 1995, after graduating, Musk founded his first company, ZIP2, which provided website development and maintenance services, as the Internet was booming.

The results were pretty good. By 1999, ZIP2 had more than 200 customers and was sold to Compaq Computer for $307 million (Musk personally received $22 million).

Although the acquisition was one of the largest deals in the Internet field at the time, Musk's life trajectory is so crazy that many people don't know this history.

In December 2000, Musk went on vacation to Brazil and began feeling unwell after returning home, which was diagnosed with the deadliest type of malaria.

He nearly died, lost 20kg and took more than six months to recover.

After recovering, Musk used the $22 million from the sale of ZIP2 to found Company X, an electronic payments company that later merged with Confinity Inc to eventually give birth to PayPal.

In 2002, PayPal went public and was subsequently acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion for payment processing on its website.

Musk received $180 million from the sale.

After becoming financially free, Musk began to think about why there had been so limited progress in the aerospace field since the moon landing in 1969.

So, in 2002, he decided to invest $100 million of his own money to found SpaceX with a clear goal: to colonize Mars.

He traveled to Russia to try to buy two rockets, but the price was too high.

He realized that he could drastically reduce costs if he built it from scratch and used reusable components.

Amazingly, at the same time, in 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla to solve another problem that worried him:

The transition to sustainable energy.

In the long run, Tesla is committed to producing electric cars that are affordable to everyone.

In 2006, before Musk took over Tesla, installing solar panels was very expensive (about $50,000), so people were reluctant to install them until the Reeve brothers proposed an innovative plan to Musk.

Provide users with solar panel production and installation at zero cost, and users pay in installments through energy savings.

Musk invested $10 million, and SolarCity was born.

Musk was initially just an investor in Tesla, but the 2008 financial crisis brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy, and Musk took over as CEO to save the company.

In 2008, after three years of development and three failed launches, SpaceX was on the verge of bankruptcy, with only the funds left for one last attempt.

Yes, 2008 was also the year SpaceX faced bankruptcy.

Musk called it the worst year of his life and faced the most difficult decision:

Invest all of your capital in one business to save it, or divide it between two companies and risk not being able to save either.

He decided to allocate capital and successfully saved both companies.

In 2009, the launch was successful.

Musk reduced the cost of the rocket from $25 million to $6 million, and NASA subsequently selected SpaceX to undertake the astronaut transportation mission.

But Musk has not forgotten the mission of colonizing Mars, and he continues to develop his interstellar spacecraft: Starship.

During a traffic jam in 2013, tired of the congestion in Los Angeles, Musk came up with the idea of ​​solving the traffic problem by building a network of high-speed tunnels, and the Hyperloop project was born.

In 2015, Musk announced the Starlink project, a network of 12,000 microsatellites designed to provide high-quality internet services to the world at a low cost, allowing everyone to access the internet.

Interestingly, 4 years later, in May 2019, Musk sent out a tweet announcing the start of service via the Starlink network.

Another area of ​​concern for Musk is artificial intelligence, which he believes will pose the "greatest existential threat" to humanity if used incorrectly.

So he and Sam Altman founded OpenAI, which aims to develop artificial intelligence that has a positive impact on humanity.

Musk's madness has not stopped. The Mars plan that he has had in his heart for a long time has officially kicked off, and xAI was born. Human migration to Mars requires the help of AI robots. Musk predicts that by 2040, humans will have 10 billion robots in use!

Chinese automaker Xpeng also announced the launch of an intelligent robot

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