Story Of Spacex Man: Elon Musk

Story of SpaceX Man: Elon Musk

Musk was born and raised in South Africa by his father, a South African engineer and his mother, a nutritionist and Canadian model.

He bought his first computer, aCommodore VIC-20, when he was 10 years old and learned to program on his own.He sold his first program (a space game calledBlastar) for the equivalent of $ 500 when he was just 12 years old.The money he earned by programming he spent on comics, computers and role-playing games likeDungeons and Dragons.

Between the ages of 12 and 15 he had an existential crisis about the meaning of life.He read some books by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer andThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,looking for answers and rethinking their future.

His parents divorced and it was his father who told him he would not pay for college unless he was in South Africa: that was the trigger to emigrate with his mother to Canada and fulfill their dreams.In 1992, he received his scholarship to study Business Administration at theUniversity of Pennsylvaniawith his subsequent degree from theWharton School.He stayed one more year in the university to complete his second degree in Physics.

One of his professors at the University of Pennsylvania was the executive director ofPinnacle Research, located in Los Gatos, Silicon Valley, and dedicated to researchingelectrolyticultracapacitorsfor electric vehicles;during one summer, Musk was working for him and his company.

After obtaining his degrees, and inspired by innovators such as Nikola Tesla, Musk decided to focus on three areas which he consideredimportant problems, as he himself would later state: "One of them was theInternet, another wasrenewable energyand the other wasspace".

It would not be long before his achievements made him the global icon we know.In February 2005, Musk's fortune was $ 328 million, and currently, at $ 12.9 billion, he is theCEO of SpaceX,CEO of Tesla MotorsandPresident of SolarCity.Also, as if that were not enough, he is known for having created thefirstviableelectric carfor production in the modern era (Tesla Roadster), for designing a private successor to theSpace Shuttle (theF9 / Dragon)and creatingPayPal Inc, the system of the largest online payments in the world.

"I always asked everything, and that made my parents very angry.I did not believe the things they told me in the first place.I used to ask them why and consider if their answer made sense based on what I already knew. "-Elon Musk.

No doubt we are before one of those people who did not give in to the complications of life and knew how to take advantage of their opportunities to find their own way.Musk demonstrated, from a very young age, an enormous ability to avoid giving up and continue forward.Not only for walking more than fifteen kilometers with very few years of age to attend the birthday of his cousin (which he was forbidden to go), but to achieve concrete three major problems of the Human Being in the XXI century and put all his life and commitment in solving them.