as the founder and CEO of the private space company SpaceX and the Electric Vehicle
Manufacturer Tesla Inc entrepreneur Elon Musk has gained International recognition musk was an early
investor in several Tech businesses co-founded PayPal and concluded a deal to take Twitter Inc
private in October 2022. he has been compared to other eccentric businessmen from American history
such as Steve Jobs Howard Hughes and Henry Ford because of his success and sense of style with
an estimated net worth of 212 billion dollars as of October 2022 he was ranked as the richest
person in the world in 2021 musk became the first person to have the title surpassing Jeff Bezos the
founder of Amazon let's take a quick look at the life of the man who has reached the top of
the business world and why unto whom he received assassination threats hello everyone welcome back
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life and education in Pretoria South Africa Elon Reeve musk was born in 1971 as the oldest of
three kids he was born to a Canadian model and nutritionist and a South African engineer for a
father musk largely lived with his father after his parents separated in 1980. he would describe
his father as a terrible human being almost every evil thing you could possibly think of he has done
in a later statement must statement B I had a terrible upbringing I had a lot of adversity
growing up one thing I worry about with my kids is they don't face enough adversity childhood
bullying musk completed his high school education at Pretoria boys high school after enrolling at
the prestigious English-speaking water kloof house Preparatory School a year early being
a self-described bookworm he didn't make many acquaintances there they got my best friend to
lure me out of hiding so they could beat me up and that hurt musk stated for some reason they
decided that I was it and they were going to go after me Non-Stop that's what made growing
up difficult for a number of years there was no respite you get chased around by gangs at school
who tried to beat thee out of me and then I'd come home and it would just be awful there as
well early achievements must use technology as a way to escape using a Commodore vic-20 an early
and reasonably priced home computer he learned out a program when he was 10 years old musk quickly
Advanced to the point that he was able to design blastar a video game in the space invader's vein
for 500 he provided a PC Magazine with the game's basic code musk and his brother had plans to open
a video game arcade close to their school in one memorable childhood episode but the idea
was rejected by their parents musk's college Years he left South Africa in his late teens to escape
serving in the military which was a requirement for white men in that country he then moved to
Canada it was still the time of apartheid when the majority black native population of South Africa
was denied political and economic rights by the country's legal system Moscow had no desire to
join the Army which at the time was fighting to put an end to the black nationalist movement he
was able to enroll at Queen's University in Kingston one of Ontario's best universities
thanks to his mother's connections to Canada he met aspiring author Justine Wilson there before
getting divorced in 2008 they were married and had five Sons Twins and triplets together entering the
United States musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania from Queen's University after two
years there although he took on two majors his stay there wasn't entirely work related
he purchased a 10-bedroom fraternity home with a friend of his and they turned it into a makeshift
nightclub in addition to earning a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the Wharton School musk
also received a Bachelor of Science in physics the two majors paved the way for musk's career
but physics had the biggest impact later he would say physics is a good framework for thinking boils
things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there notable achievements at the age of
24 musk relocated to California to attend Stanford University to work toward a doctorate in Applied
Physics however with the growth of Silicon Valley and the internet musk had business ideas dancing
in his head after only two days he dropped out of the PHD program x.com with just fifteen thousand
dollars and the support of his younger brother Kimball Elon Musk founded zip2 a web software firm
that would assist newspapers in creating online City Guides in 1995. compact computer Corps paid
341 million dollars for zip2's acquisition in 1999. prior to the widespread use of the term
fintech musk founded x.com with the company from the zip2 purchase PayPal was created as
a result of the merger of x.com and confinity a company that specialized in money transfers
prior to eBay's 1.5 billion dollar acquisition of the payments firm Peter Thiel fired musk as
CEO of PayPal but musk still benefited from the transaction thanks to his 11.7 ownership position
in the company my PayPal proceeds after tax were roughly 180 million dollars musk stated in a 2018
interview of that 100 million was invested in SpaceX 70 in Tesla and 10 in Solar City in order
to pay my rent I had to borrow money Tesla in 2004 musk joined the team which included engineer
Martin Eberhard to assist operate a business that was then known as Tesla Motors musk got engaged
with the electric car Enterprise as an early investor contributing an initial sum of roughly
6.3 million dollars Eberhard was fired in 2007 after a string of disputes and a temporary CEO
was hired until musk took over as CEO and product architect Tesla has become into the most valuable
automaker in the world during his leadership thanks to its purchase of SolarCity Tesla retains
a strong presence in the solar energy industry in addition to making electric vehicles there
are two rechargeable solar batteries being made by the company right now the bigger power pack is
designed for business or utility grid use while the smaller power wall is meant for household
backup power and off-the-grid use SpaceX musk founded space exploration Technologies core or
SpaceX the company that makes Rockets using the majority of the money from his Paypal holding
according to musk SpaceX was founded in 2002 with the help of 100 million dollars SpaceX won
a number of notable contracts with the U.S under musk's Direction NASA and the American government
are both involved in space exploration to develop rockets for space launch is the Air Force as part
of a Joint Nasa musk initiative musk has made public Ambitions to deploy an astronaut to Mars
by 2025. Twitter Moscow posts frequently on the platform revealed in April 2022 that he owned 9.2
percent of the company musk accepted a position on the board of directors from Twitter in response
but he later withdrew his acceptance the Twitter board was then contacted by musk who was then sent
them a bear hug letter offering to buy The Firm for 54.20 per share the board of Twitter adopted a
poison pill Clause to prevent Musk from acquiring a larger stake but they ultimately accepted musk's
offer after he revealed 46.5 billion dollars in committed financing for the transaction in
a Securities filing in July 2022 musk made an attempt to call off the agreement claiming that
Twitter had failed to disclose certain information regarding fake accounts musk was forced to execute
the acquisition after the company sued him musk found finally succeeded in acquiring control of
Twitter on October 28 2022 following months of Court fighting over the Billionaire's desire to
purchase the social media platform eventually Elon Musk the new owner of Twitter asserted on Saturday
that there is a pretty significant chance that anything horrible may happen to him even being
shot at musk claim that he absolutely wouldn't be participating in any open-air auto parades during
a two-hour audio talk on Twitter spaces frankly the risk of something bad happening to me or even
literally being shot is quite significant he says and added it's not that hard to kill somebody if
you wanted to so hopefully they don't and fate Smiles upon the situation with me and it does
not happen there's definitely some risk there the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX also discussed the
value of free expression during the conversation as well as his future plans for Twitter at the
end of the day he continued we just want to have a future where we're not oppressed where our speech
is not suppressed and we can say what we want to say without fear of reprisals as long as you're
not really causing harm to somebody else then you should be allowed to say what you want according
to musk and recall that on 2018 the terrifying idea of assassin drones is presented by Elon Musk
in an extensive interview that aired on axios on HBO Elon Musk discussed how Tesla was losing
money like crazy and nearly went out of business earlier that year however as he began discussing
the terrifying potential and current applications of artificial intelligence the conversation took
a darker turn according to musk you could make a swarm of assassin drones for very little money by
just taking the face ID chip that's used in cell phones and having a small explosive charge and
a standard drone and just have it do a grid sweep of the building until they find the person they're
looking for Ram into them and explode you could do that right now no new technology is needed
musk intends that we must meld with robots in order to defeat the existential threat posed by
artificial intelligence he established neurolink a business with the goal of creating a human AI
symbiosis to that aim musk told axios that he'll achieve it using a chip and a bunch of tiny cables
that will be implanted in your skull and described it as an electrode to neuron interface at a micro
level he said he expects this would be feasible within a decade and which is now in human trials
in the interview musk said and by the way you kind of have this already in a funny way you
have a digital tertiary layer in the shape of your phone your laptops and your watch you essentially
already have these Computing gadgets as a tertiary layer on top of your intellect he further added
that he is ready to try the brain chip implant when it's ready Elon Musk has never shied away
from going up against his detractors in front of the public the richest guy in the world has
no fear of anyone including his friends in Silicon Valley like recent Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
and president and Joe Biden it's one of the traits that is more than 91.5 million Twitter followers
adore about him following the Russian invasion the Tesla CEO and multi-billionaire supported
Ukraine and did not shirk from publicly opposing President Vladimir Putin which prompted some Putin
supporters to criticize him and call him names however it appears that the Billionaire's life
is threatened as a result of the criticisms these threats appear to be taken seriously
by musk the millionaire said on social media if I die under unexplained circumstances it's been
nice knowing you he questions ragozen's usage of the word Nazi in a prior tweet a few hours after
posting these tweets musk made another commitment to do everything in his power to survive sorry I
will do my best to stay alive the Mogul stated Twitter users have responded to musk's threats
with a huge outpouring of sympathy he is frequently asked to make the area around
him more secure Anthony pompliano a cryptocurrency influencer and investor said we must defend you at
any costs the world depends on you and that ends today's episode what do you think of this episode
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