Look at Tesla, SpaceX founder Elon Musk knows how lucky he is, look at Tesla, SpaceX founder Elon Musk knows how lucky he is.
Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 to a white South African father and a Canadian mother. He liked physics experiments since he was a child, and after graduating from junior high school, he entered the university to study physics, but chose to drop out of school and return home to farm due to unsatisfactory academics. Musk's father is South African and his mother is British. His childhood was very poor. At the age of 17, Musk left South Africa to study in Canada and the United States to avoid compulsory military service in the country.
Musk believes that there are three areas in the future that will profoundly affect the future of humanity, and the areas he most wants to participate in are the Internet, renewable energy and space. In "The Greatest Technology of the Next Decade," he wrote: "In the next ten years, I hope to see such a genius appear. "This genius is the famous American scientist and entrepreneur , Elon Musk. Now it seems that this person has entered three fields, one after another, and even has a new breakthrough.
We don't know when Musk started, it's just that he sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq in 1999 for $300 million + $34 million in stock options, then founded X.com that eventually grew into PayPal And Musk sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
In June 2002, a legend was born in Silicon Valley in the United States: a man named Musk. He was the first to successfully implement a business operation. In January 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Musk founded SpaceX. Musk became Tesla's largest shareholder and chairman in 2004, currently worth $57 billion, and last year Musk broke into the Internet field, launched 30,000 satellites into low-Earth orbit, and woven a huge starlink network around the world to provide Internet services to all mankind around the world.
Musk's other investments include OpenAI, Neuralink, SolarCity, and Hyperloop, all of which could have a huge impact on the future of humanity, preparing for a physical and mental revolution for humanity and the push for human civilization towards interstellar civilization.
Therefore, Musk is very fortunate to realize his childhood dream and quickly accumulate wealth, if his starship successfully lands on Mars and promotes the commercialization of space, Musk may become one of the greatest figures in human history, become the founder of interstellar civilization, and be remembered by future generations.
Unfortunately for Musk, however, he once said that vacations can kill you. Musk's career has been spent almost in a dormant state, he has a vacation every year, but he has not rested well every vacation. Musk said: I have to work overtime every day until late at night to get home. This led directly to him taking only two days off for 12 years, working more than 100 hours a week.
Of course, not all work prevented him from taking vacations, but in fact, every time he took a vacation he was a moth, unlucky, and either became a disaster or a target of disaster.
Musk's first vacation was a honeymoon with his first wife, Justin, in 2000. At the time, he was the CEO of X.com. But he resigned because of his wife's illness. He said he was healthy, but he didn't want to leave the world; he said he was happy, but he didn't want to leave the house; he wanted to go out and see the outside world. As soon as Musk got on the plane, the company's top brass fired him from the joint board, leaving him to fly home in a rage. If Musk was a real man, he decided to make up for his honeymoon with Justin at the end of that year, when the two traveled for two weeks to Brazil and South Africa, where Musk was nearly killed by a South African quack.
Then came the birth of SpaceX, and Musk spent two vacations, the first being a rocket launch and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson rocket explosion, and the second being Musk's decision to take another week off, and his rocket failed again. This was the last time he took a vacation. During this sabbatical, he visited a clergyman named "The Son of God." Musk has since been afraid to take a vacation, and while he has vowed that religion and science cannot coexist, that he will not worship anyone, and that he will not pray to any god, he admits that when the Falcon 1 rocket is launched, he prays to the silently listening "unknown beings" in the hope that it will succeed.
Musk may be the "god" of the future, but he is still a living "man", and fortunately, no one can stop him. Before that, his life had been filled with too many misfortunes. The troubles and disasters he encountered in space made him despair, and he himself was full of fear of the future. What's going on here? Let's hope he doesn't have moths anymore, and maybe in the future we can travel to Mars on a starship.