Did you know that Elon Musk was not always worth billions of dollars as his parents owned an apartheid emerald mining company in Pretoria South Africa but had to work his way up to the top Will you not know May Musk Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa in a wealthy family.
His mother May Musk is a dietician and model, she has been in this business for the last 50 years. Some of the world’s leading magazines including Vogue and Magazine. Despite her newfound fame as the mother of Time magazine’s richest man in the world, she’s also been a celebrity in her own right, she may have posed nude on the cover of New York magazine, but appeared in Beyoncé’s haunted music video Granted, after all no one can even take away your super celebrity status from SNL Live. She was born in Canada, lives in South Africa.
She only moved to San Francisco to be closer to her sons, Elon and Kimball. When he started working in Zip 2, she wanted to be close to him in future in 2021 as well. And the son duo will host an SNL live show where Musk will openly discuss his struggle with Asperger’s syndrome, the condition that brought him closer to science and his interest in creating new things.
May and Errol went to high school together and married in 1970. The family was prosperous. After selling his plane, Errol profits from an emerald mine, resulting in teenage Elon roaming the streets of New York with an emerald in his pocket. According to his book Love Story, a woman plans to end her love early. He was excellent in his defence. He didn’t intentionally hurt anyone. He told Rolling Stone before mentioning that a decade later he had shot three men.
Who had entered his house. She divorced him and moved to Toronto with her sons. Kasturi is still estranged from her father, whom she describes as a horrible man, saying she worked five jobs to keep the family together. Keys donated ten thousand dollars for their office rent when the two started Zip2. If you ask me there is no one who is struggling with 5 jobs in 2021. Thanks to Sheldon Cooper and his friends on the stairs, we can say that Musk worked really hard in school.
Especially with the subjects he loved, meanwhile he was bullied for his lack of social awareness. Gaya, an entrepreneur very keen in computers and biology, Musk designed a video game at age 12, leaving South Africa at age 17. Kasturi left South Africa. and moved to Canada where he became a citizen due to his mother’s connection, he left South Africa to avoid compulsory apartheid military conscription.
Musk first worked at the Waldeck Saskatchewan Fun Fact. Waldeck is such a small village that its total population was listed as 277 in the 2016 census. He used to take care of vegetables in his cousin’s farm. Still, Musk wanted more for himself, one could argue that he was used to having so much money, his father said that when they lived together he had so much money that he would sometimes open his safe. Musk inquired about his exact status at the unemployment office.
He wasted no time when they told him to make money and landed what he describes as his toughest gig, The Toughest Job Cleaning the Boiler Room of a Lumber Mill. put on the hazmat suit and then slowly go through this little tunnel that you can barely fit into, then you have to shovel and you pick up the sand and goop and other debris that’s still hot and you have to shovel it into the same hole It was no oyster to run through the 18 hours to the other end, someone else has to pull it in a wheelbarrow if you last longer than 30 minutes.
So long enough you get too hot and die university of pennsylvania they start their turn at the lumber mill with 30 there are only five people left by the end of the week the third day only three people go to work butchering Finally went back to school and left manual labor behind, I guess we can thank the unemployment office and the lumber mill. Attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 1997.
He said he was running a nightclub in his dorm room to pay his rent, we’ll go by that story as if it’s not bothering because it’s a little backstory. Musk later attended the Materials Science Engineering graduate program. I was admitted to Stanford University in California. Stanford still gave it a go for the venture and applied for a job at Netscape. Musk didn’t get the job. He may have a bad degree and be able to get into a physics and physics program, but without a computer science education or employment background.
Despite not being one, which has been the safest entry into a software company, Musk’s first company, which he started with his brother zip2, was successful in 1999 with about 300 employees. Sold for million dollars. Netscape lobbies for hours but is too shy to talk to anyone so he decides to start his own company Musk usually goes to school when things aren’t going well at work but he thought instead of going to Stanford You can try to start first.
A business-minded Musk revealed that he felt he could always go back to academia if a business didn’t take off. Xcom acquired a seven percent stake in zip2, an online financial services platform founded by x.com, which merged the brilliant idea with Confinity in 2000. Peter Thiel, who became a billionaire by investing early in Facebook, and Max Levchin helped run Yelp into what it is today. Day. A digital loan service called Firm. A 2002 merger by eBay brought PayPal to $1.5 billion. Elon Musk repurchased the now-defunct x.com domain from PayPal in 2017.
He said it holds sentimental value to him. is space exploration company that has an x in its name and tesla’s model also has an x so it holds sentimental value actually conclusion we don’t know how much he bought it for but it can’t be cheap so clearly musket wins He started SpaceX in 2002 and collaborated to launch Tesla in 2003. In 2016 he founded Neuralink and a year later he formed The Boring Company. We can also mention all the roles as sidekick in movies and television shows, now he’s also everyone’s favorite podcast guest.
Not surprising jobs today, Elon Musk is worth about $193 billion until it hits $200 billion. $44 billion bid for twitter and its net worth has started to decline, talk about it may be sued for stock manipulation over its twitter bid, but nothing conclusive when that happens we Will tell you Please share with us your thoughts about the jobs Musk has done in the comments section, let us know which jobs surprised you the most.