Elon. Musk used to run a nightclub in his college dorm room to pay for his tuition and living expenses

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, with a net worth of $300 billion. Musk is also one of the greatest entrepreneurial innovators of our time. His company, SpaceX, was also the first private company to put humans into orbit and send spacecraft to the International Space Station.

However, despite all of Musk's successes, he, like the rest of us, has faced the same struggles and challenges. Not many people know that Elon paid for the entire cost of living at his university through his own efforts. Did you know that Musk once ran a nightclub outside of a college dormitory to pay for living expenses?

In 1989, Musk immigrated to Canada from South Africa to study at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. After two years in Ontario, Musk won a scholarship with honors in 1992 and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, Musk had a roommate named Adio Reisy.

To cover his tuition and living expenses, the two of them decided to rent a large, relatively inexpensive house off campus and convert the 10-bedroom house into a nightclub. Musk confirmed the story in a 2019 tweet, saying, "To cover the cost of living, we turned a rented house off campus into a nightclub venue and charged people who attended the nightclub $5 per person for admission." It looks cool, but it's crazy... Black lights, glowing spray paint, metal garbage sculptures and more. ”

In his book Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Better Future, Musk said, "I went to college at my own expense and earned a whole month's worth of living expenses in one night. "His roommate, Adio, is in charge of doing cool things around the house while I host parties."

"It's a full-blown, unlicensed underground bar," Casey said. "We're going to have as many as five hundred people in attendance. We'll charge a $5 entrance fee per person, which is pretty much everything you can drink – beer, jelly drinks and other things. ”

But according to Vance, Musk is not an alcoholic, and he doesn't care about the taste of the wine except for the occasional vodka and Diet Coke. "During these gatherings, someone has to stay awake."