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Success Story of Elon Musk

Elon Musk was born in South Africa and showed a passion for invention from a young age. He had a difficult childhood, being bullied in school and having his parents divorce when he was 10. Despite these challenges, he taught himself programming and sold his first computer game at age 12. After obtaining multiple degrees, he dropped out of Stanford to pursue entrepreneurship. He founded Zip2, which he sold for $22 million in 1999. With this success, he went on to found several companies that have significantly impacted technology and innovation, including PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, and SolarCity, becoming the 3rd richest person in the world. Throughout his career, Musk has focused

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Success Story of Elon Musk

Elon Musk was born in South Africa and showed a passion for invention from a young age. He had a difficult childhood, being bullied in school and having his parents divorce when he was 10. Despite these challenges, he taught himself programming and sold his first computer game at age 12. After obtaining multiple degrees, he dropped out of Stanford to pursue entrepreneurship. He founded Zip2, which he sold for $22 million in 1999. With this success, he went on to found several companies that have significantly impacted technology and innovation, including PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, and SolarCity, becoming the 3rd richest person in the world. Throughout his career, Musk has focused

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Success Story of Elon Musk

Modern day world constitutes various new and emerging technologies using various interesting
concepts and applying it in various fields. A man that is know to do so is Elon Musk. Most people
know him as a billionaire who trends in world publishes often, But this is not true as Elon Musk has a
whole brilliant story known by few, in this article I would try my level best to make you live his life as
he did.

Elon Musk's early days

Elon Musk was born on 28th of June 1987 in Pretoria South Africa. Since childhood Elon Musk was
filled with deep thoughts of new creations by him and so his parents called upon the doctor to check
upon his hearing. His childhood was filled with multiple mishappenings and struggle. When he was
just 10 his parents split up and he started living with his father in South Africa. During his schooling
he was bullied by fellow mates because he was different and was not interested in school matters
and was busy dreaming. Since Elon was socially discarded my his mates and was alone he made a
close connection with books and started to read books which many youngsters didn’t.

Baby steps toward success

Elon Musk after his parents divorce never had guilty feelings instead he started to learn programming
and at the age of 12 made a game and sold it to a company for 500 $. This was his first step towards his
journey to being a billionaire.

After completing his school he shifted to Canada at his mother’s relatives for more education.

At the age of 17 he joined the Queen University and after a span of 2 years he shifted to the University
of Pennsylvania after getting 2 bachelor degrees Elon shifted to California in the Stanford University
where in just 2 days he dropped and started to build his entrepreneurship career Being filled with
knowledge gained by reading books and with his skills he was ready to do so

Entrepreneurship as a motive

Elon Musk main focus in life was to wave away the main problems faced by humans and so with this in
mind he started to think of ideas and finally caught hand of one in the year 1995. Zip2 the first company
of Elon basically waved away the problems faced by people while they visit banks and stand in long
queues for just check approvals. After a 4 year success in the company he sold his company in 1999
earning a share of 22million dollars. Elon then found multiple companies which sought to ease people’s
live and get them out of chaotic situations such as

1.Paypal

2. Spacex

3. The boring company

4. Tesla

5. Starlink
6. Solar City

7. Open AI

Elon Musk’s present happenings

In the present Elon Musk is known by most of the people for creating Tesla the leading electric car
manufacturing company. Currently he is the 3 rd richest person in the world and being am icon he has to
go through lot of criticism as well as affection by his fans. Elon Musk’s story in itself is an example for
many to leave all behind and become what they want. Who would’ve imagined that a youngster who
got hit by his mates could achieve such great heights .

Conclusion

In the end I would like to convey a message that no matter what you are now if you know what to do
you can and you will do it surely.

Written by :

Saksham Saxena.

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