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Who is Elon Musk???

"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CEO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."

In this modern era, probably everybody knows about Tesla, SpaceX, and Hyperloop. But, If you don't know anything about Tesla Motors & Ellon Musk, don't worry about that I'll tell you everything.

It is a car company, an Electric car company to be specific. This guy we are talking about is the founder, CEO, CTO, and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; and the founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. Musk is one of the richest people in the world. and this is his success story.

Why everybody calls Elon "The Real Iron Man"??

Elon Musk is the archetypal serial entrepreneur, with a string of successes before the startups that would make him famous. Robert Downey Jr aka (Tony Stark) turned to Elon for help getting into character as Tony Stark for the 2008 film Iron Man. Musk’s enthusiastic embrace of technology for technology’s sake and his desire to push the limits of what was possible for private enterprise made him a close real-world analog for Marvel’s billionaire arms dealer.

Biography Of Elon Musk:

He was born in South Africa in 1971 to an American mother and South African father, he made his first $500 at the age of 12, selling a computer game he had coded to the magazine PC and Office Technology.

In 1989, he moved to Canada and then the US to study at university. While studying at the Pennsylvania University, he paid for his tuition by organizing house parties, replete with club-inspired art installations. At the time, he wrote a business plan for an electronic book-scanning service akin to the one Google would launch more than a decade later. Since the eventual launch of Google Books led to a $3bn lawsuit from the Author’s Guild that took eight years to fight, Musk may have been lucky that his plan never got off the ground. This is How Elon Musk Gets his Start.

Achievements Of Musk:

Elon Musk majored in Physics and Economics. After he got a

seat in Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University which is very prestigious but he dropped out just after two days to start a new company. He and his brother borrowed $28000 from their father and launched a company called Zip2. To save rent and other expenses he used to sleep in his company office and took showers in a near gym. Four years later they sold their company to Compaq for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock, this is how Elon Musk gets his start he received $22 million for his 7% stake from the sale.

Later he started another company called X.com and it merged with its competitor and turned into PayPal where he got fired as CEO. Later eBay acquired it for $1.5 billion. This is where Elon Musk got rich, he got $165 million from the deal.

From Ordinary Story to Success Story

This is where his story started to become a success story, If some other person got that money he will spend it on mostly Luxuries, well he too bought a McLaren and a Private Jet but he took an extremely risky decision. At that time Electric cars are considered to be slow and ugly but a company called Tesla wants to change it, but while they are in a position of bankruptcy Elon Musk invested $80 million in Tesla Motors and became its CEO.

Why Elon Musk got fired from his own company? 

Let’s be frank how many of us think of ideas like leaving the Earth and start colonizing Mars? and how many of us ever thought of reusing an orbital rocket? Forget about out of the box his thoughts are already out of this world.

Let's get to the point, actually once Musk got fired from

his own company and reason is when Musk’s prelude to PayPal, X.com, merged with another company, he was named as its CEO. Musk made the decision to switch PayPal’s servers, but the rest of the company’s board didn’t agree. While en route to Australia for a holiday, he was ousted and replaced by Peter Thiel. The betrayal made him more determined than ever to start SpaceX and Tesla, he said later.
Elon Musk is the second entrepreneur in silicon valley who created three companies with a market cap of $1 billion or more with PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. 
At first, it is a failure, cars are very priced, TV shows like Top Gear brought a lot of negativity to the brand that's why he got fired but then Elon Musk fought back. He took precision care and took some bold decisions like firing some of the employees and even its co-founder and by actively participating in that company’s innovation and decision making he made the company a car giant. 

Some Famous Quotes By Elon Musk (The Iron Man):

Quotes can be used as the inspiration in our hard times. Because when we listen or read some limes from that person who is ruling the world right now, we consider it as a advice and one more thing that this person must saying this with his experience. Here are some famous quotes by Musk:

1.     "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

2.     "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

3.     "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

4.   "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

Did Musk write a book on his success story?
Everyody is curious to know that Musk should write his

own book on his success and the tesls inventions. Later Musk replied to all of his fans that he is writing a book.

He's writing a book about Tesla and SpaceX, his two biggest companies. "Time to tell the story of Tesla & SpaceX," Musk tweeted. "Of Earth and Mars," he said in his second tweet. "Lessons learned," he said in his third tweet. 

Many of his 46 million followers began to speculate what he meant, and in response to one user asking if he was writing a book, Musk replied: "Yes."

The last time Musk spoke about writing a book was in 2019, when he said that the story of his early career "may be worth a book one day," adding that this would take him away from his work at SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, his neural tech company.
Some famous Books that Musk thinks we should read:
There are plethora of books that Musk reads but then in an interview, he suggested some famous books that we should read just to increase our mentality and to find out how and where to strat to become a billionaire. here's the list of books that you must appreciate. 

1. 
   Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, 2014
2. Steve Jobs, 2011
   
3. Dune, 1965
4. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Int
   elligence, 2017
5. Surface Detail, 2010
6. Superintelligence: Paths, Danger
   s, Strategies, 2014
7. Waiting for Godot, 1953
8. The Machine Stops, 1909
9. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change, 2010
10. Atlas Shrugged, 1957
11. The Wealth of Nations, 1776

So, here's the story of the real time Iron Man and at the end I suggest you to take some tips from the life of Elon because he is the wealthy inspiration right now or all of us. And I hope you enjoy the article. 

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