You are my everything, you make my world glow, what can I do without you my king? The moment I laid my eyes on you my world changed.....O! Elon Musk I love you.
Ok! Enough with the fake love quotes, I know what you all must have being thinking and that's not the kind of undying love I'm talking about. ....I'm damn straight people....lol. My undying love for Elon Musk lies in his exceptional creativity, innovations and belief that there's no limitation in life. His innovations know no boundaries.
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Elon Reeve Musk, the genius, a south African born Canadian American business mogul, inventor, engineer and investor. He's a huge role model to me, the dude doesn't have a stop button. Elon Musk is a brain, his unique inventions just makes him to stand out from the crowd. He believes everything he sets out to pursue is achievable no matter the obstacle.
People, we're talking of someone who is the CEO and product architect of Tesla inc, founder, CEO, and CTO of Space X, Co-chairman of Open AI, founder and CEO of Neuralink and the list goes on and on like that...might take me a century if I tried to list all of them...lol.
But him getting to where he is wasn't a day dream but a journey which started from his childhood. He was an avid reader at a very young age and by the age of 10, he developed an interest in computing, interestingly he taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He's growing up was quite challenging as a kid, he was severely bullied and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a stairs and beat him up till he lost consciousness. But still that wasn't enough to ruin his future as grew stronger and stronger each day.
By 1995 Musk mind blowing career kicked off with him and his brother starting a web software company named Zip2. At a point Musk wanted to become CEO of Zip2 but none of the board members allowed. In 1999 compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options. Musk got $22 million from the sale.
Later, in March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and email payment company, with the money he made from Zip2 sale. A year later the company decided to merge with confinity which had a money transfer service called Paypal. In October 2002, Paypal was sold for $1.5 billion in stock and Musk got $165 million from the sale.
From there Musk decided to venture into the space business which led to the birth of SpaceX.
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In 2001 Musk had all these travel, transport and live in Mars idea. So he traveled to Moscow to acquire some intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could send stuffs into space, but he was turned down by some russian companies he met. Not wanting to give up, he returned back to russia in 2002 to till try and acquire ICBMs and this time he took along some experts. The group met a russian company and were offered one missile for $8 million, Musk saw it as too expensive and out of anger left the meeting. It was on his flight back from Moscow, he realised that he could actually start a company that could build the affordable rocket he needed. That was how SpaceX came into life with the long term goal of creating a "true space faring civilization".
From SpaceX, Musk jumped into Tesla, inc. a company where electric cars were being manufactured.
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Musk joined Tesla's board of directors as its chairman. Later in 2008 during the financial crisis Musk took over the leadership of the company as the CEO and product architect which he still occupies till today.
Musk later came up with the initial concept and financial capital for solar city. He said that the reason for funding both Tesla and solarcity was to help combat global warming.
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Today, Solarcity is the is the largest provider of solar power systems in the United states. In August 12, 2013, Musk brought up the hyperloop concept for high-speed transportation system using reduced pressure tubes in which pressurised capsules ride on air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.
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The idea behind hyperloop was to make it cheaper than any other mode of long distance transportation. Also in 2015 he created Open AI, an artificial intelligence(AI) research company with the aim to develop artificial general intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial to humanity. In 2016, Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup company, designed to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence.
The last and not the least of Elon Musk is the boring company which while he was stuck in a traffic and he decided to tweet "Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging. ..". And so it was, he founded the company with the purpose of digging tunnels for cars to pass as an alternative route.
The company has started digging and it's within the premises of SpaceX's office in Los Angeles.
Elon Musk has truly achieved a lot now you can see why I have an undying love for him. The dude has an unbelievable mind filled with a lot of creativity. I await more great inventions and moves from him.
In life never limit yourself no matter what the world throws at you.