this is the story of Elon Musk in three
minutes Elon Musk was born in Pretoria
South Africa in 1971 to May musk a
Canadian model and dietician and arrow
musk an engineer and pilot he developed
a love for reading at a young age and by
12 years old used self-taught
programming skills to develop code for a
video game he called blastaar which he
then sold for $500 musk was a victim of
severe bullying including an incident
that landed them in the hospital after
being thrown down a flight of stairs
despite this Elon has said he believes
his purpose in life is to try to take a
set of actions that are likely to
prolong civilization minimize the
probability of a Dark Age and reduce the
length of a Dark Age if there is one
musk attended Queen's University in
Canada for two years before moving on to
Penn while at Penn must grant an
unofficial nightclub out of a rented 10
bedroom frat house in 1995 must entered
the ph.d program at Stanford and then
dropped out after two days to focus on
entrepreneurial ventures based on this
internet thing everyone is suddenly
talking about he creates zip to along
with his brother four years later he
receives 22 million dollars for a share
when they sold zip 2 to compact must use
some of this money to co-found XCOM a
user-friendly online financial service
you might know it better today as PayPal
and when eBay purchased PayPal in 2002
must shares netted him a cool 165
million dollars committed to fighting
global climate change must founded Solar
City and Tesla the Solar City plant to
be constructed in Buffalo will be the
biggest solar plant in the United States
three times over and he plans to build
even bigger plants in the future Tesla
has grown into the leading electric car
manufacturer and the fourth most
valuable automotive company in the world
must conceptualize the Mars Oasis a plan
to commercialize space travel and
colonize Mars in order to avoid the
inevitable extinction of humankind on
earth and let's be honest even if you
survive nobody wants to be the only
human left on a planet with crocodiles
cockroaches and Twinkies must founded
SpaceX with a hundred million dollars of
his own cash in February 2018 SpaceX
successfully test launched the most
powerful operational rocket in the world
the Falcon Heavy and yes the Falcon does
take its name from a certain stuck-up
half-witted
be looking there further oh and as part
of the launch they sent a Tesla Roadster
into space it's orbiting the Earth right
now you can see the reflection of the
earth on the hood
checkmate flat-earthers what he's not
launching sports cars into space musk is
working on the Hyperloop a high-speed
transit system that shoots pods holding
riders to the reduced pressure - it is
expected to get people from Los Angeles
to San Francisco in less than an hour
which is less time than it takes to
drive from one side of LA to the other
while tweeting in traffic in 2016
musk mused and going to build a tunnel
boring machine and just start digging
and thus the boring company was born the
boring company recently released plans
for a flamethrower which has received
20,000 pre-orders u.s. customs have
warned a flamethrower will not clear
international security must responded by
renaming the product a temperature and
hence 'men device as of 2018 Elon Musk
is worth an estimated twenty point four
billion dollars he states that he hopes
to die on Mars just not on impact and
that's the story of Elon Musk in three
minutes