Becoming Elon Musk (Full Documentary)

Did you think I had to leave this? Why not? I never give up. I love sleeping with my muscles. I had no money, in fact, I had negative money. I had huge student debts. I have a lot of houses, but I don't spend much time in most of them. I couldn't afford a place to stay and an office, so I rented an office because I actually got an office cheaper than I could get a place. to stay and then I just slept on the futon and a few years ago people were laughing at you now not so much I mean okay spacex I founded it about four years ago with the goal of revolutionizing access to space which I really want prove. achieve here is to make Mars seem possible.

The third step would be to provide humans to another planet. Services for the private sector and government. What satisfaction to do something useful for other people that I like to do is to be a little strange, crazy and eccentric. effect of success or is it the price of admission it seems that almost anyone who has excelled in a field has a touch of being a little out of the ordinary Warren Buffett drinks at least five cans of Coca-Cola a day Richard Branson drinks 20 cups of tea per day, while Jeff Bezos has spent $40 million designing watches that are expected to outlast human existence, it's almost as if the richer you are, the more excusable your strange behavior and the individual we'll see today is not exempt from this.

Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire engineering entrepreneur who, despite coming from a poor and abusive home in Pretoria, South Africa, is slowly

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the only individual who can be trusted with the future of human life, but It certainly hasn't been an easy journey for Elon Musk. Living on a couch in a rented office in Silicon Valley, instead of getting an apartment, we just rented a small office and slept on the couch until three divorces. NBC was rerunning their divorce special, yes, two days away from bankruptcy in 2008. We were only a few days away from bankruptcy it was literally two or three days, maybe it's safe to say that Elon Musk just got out of life Barely, but sometimes, for some unique people, the risk outweighs the reward, anything you want, cars, houses, businesses.

The power of government, the ability to travel to space, all of these points will be covered in this video, so join me as we cover the

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story of Elon Musk. Our story begins in Pretoria, South Africa, 1970. And you may wonder what was so significant about Pretoria in 1970 that it was granted permission to be the birthplace of our story; Well, at the time it wasn't much, it was actually pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but it turned out to be a time and place where two random individuals by the name of Errol Musk and Mae Holderman would start dating Erroll, the engineer and Mei are models who made the almost impulsive decision to get married because they were bored and lonely, well you know, I was lonely in Cape Town, I wasn't in a happy situation and I thought well.

What can be worse, the marriage can't be that bad after Erroll and May Musk's impulsive marriage in 1970, the couple had three children, Kimball Tosca and, most importantly, Elon Musk, who was born on June 28, 1971 and that is the basis of our history. a big happy family in South Africa a successful engineer with his model wife and three happy children and on the surface everything seemed incredible, however the reality of his happy family turned out to be a kind of facade, the dynamics were actually quite different behind of scene. you said they would beat me if you suffered that kind of abuse yes, yes, I think so, they beat me.

It turns out that Elon's father and Mae's husband, Erol Musk, were incredibly abusive and somewhat of a trashy individual behind the scenes when I was around. married, I was told about three times a day that I'm boring and stupid and you know, and ugly, not only was I abusive, but I also denied Elon some of the most basic things necessary to start a career in business, like a computer. He didn't want to buy a computer and refused to use computers and said they would never amount to anything, showing that perhaps Errol wasn't all that interested in seeing his children become their best selves.

Elon has stated that his father was a terrible human being who care

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y thought that our plans of evil also stated that he had a very violent and unhappy childhood. It was very violent. It was not a happy childhood. His father raises serious questions that indicate the harsh realities of his upbringing. However, the real long-term question was whether this was so bad. Well, that's probably an argument worth having because a tough upbringing would actually end up being an advantage to Elon's incredible success in the future, giving him the ability to adapt and overcome the most difficult of circumstances, but despite being in a abusive and constant home. bullying at school has been almost deadly if you would call it bullying it wouldn't be long before mae

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realized that her son was something of a genius since the age of three he actually just reasoned with me so well, and I didn't know how I could figure things out, I mean, I was three years old.

He may have realized there was something special about her son Elon after discovering that he could reason with her and complete complex jobs at the incredibly young age of three. that he was put in school a year early and after Elon was put in school a year early, Elon's mind started exploding with creative ideas at the age of five or six, which was explained on the podcast Joe Rogan, I think when I was, I don't know five or six or something I thought I was crazy, why did you think you were crazy? because it was clear that other people were not, his mind was not exploding with ideas all the time from that moment on,

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stated that his mind was constantly coming up with ideas that he described as an endless explosion that did not can be turned off.

What's going on? An endless explosion. They are just constant ideas that bounce around. Yes, by now we could probably agree that Elon Musk was born with something of a creative superpower, so with this in mind, did he have some kind of perfect plan to go from being a small town kid in South Africa to a multinational billionaire? Well, no, not really at first, at least anyway, I mean, I should say you know when. He was a kid, he didn't really have any great designs. I mean, the reason I started computer programming is because I like computer games and I play a lot of computer games at the age of 10.

Elon Musk simply started programming computers because he enjoyed playing computer games. There really wasn't any extravagant planning at the beginning of their journey, a somewhat refreshing fact considering there's always the feeling that these billionaires have it all figured out from the start, but this is where the difference happened for Elon Musk after he started programming computers. . I learned that if he could write better software and sell it, then he could buy better computers. I learned that if he wrote software and sold it, then he could get more money and buy better computers, so it wasn't really a great vision or anything.

After learning to code at the age of 10, Elon Musk realized that a magazine called PC and Office Technology would buy different pieces of software to publish in their magazine, there was a computer magazine that you could sell software to and then publish it. and then save the chat from him after making this discovery,

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decided to create his first gaming software called blaster, a game somewhat similar to the popular game Space Invaders. This game was later sold to the magazine for a price of five hundred dollars. I learned to do it myself. programming computers when I was a kid um and uh um I bought my first computer when I was 10 years old and I sold my first trading program when I was 12 years old.

It's not exactly a bad start for any 12-year-old looking to pursue paths in programming, so it's safe to say that from the beginning, Elon Musk was born to pursue difficult technical tasks with the overall goal of advancing humanity, which would really show his true colors as Elon Musk finished high school and prepared for the next stage of his life. At the age of 17, Elon Musk moved from his hometown of Pretoria, South Africa, to North America to attend the University of Pennsylvania, eventually graduating with a double bachelor's degree in economics and physics at the age of 26. Now finishing university with a double degree in economics and physics is something It was an incredible achievement, but there was another problem here.

He wasn't in the place where he wanted to be sure that Philadelphia was great and everyone but Elon had his mind set somewhere else, a place where he thought he would really thrive. I thought he was fine. I really want to work in new technologies, so I want to get to Silicon Valley. You know, when I was a kid, Silicon Valley seemed like some kind of mythical place. Silicon Valley, the place where everything happened, the promised holy land for any entrepreneur who wanted to. Dive deep into the world of technology In 1995 Elon Musk moved to Silicon Valley to start working on energy storage technologies for electric cars.

The reason he came to Stamford was actually to work on energy storage technologies for electric cars. It's an insignificant fact now, but it will be extremely important for later parts of the video after moving to Silicon Valley with a computer in a car and two thousand dollars. Elon thought his best path would be to apply for a traditional tech job, but there was a problem with that mostly. Due to its location, Silicon Valley was filled with thousands of technicians, all of whom competed for a small number of jobs at first. I tried to get a job at Netscape because they were the only Internet company and then they didn't respond to me.

I was like, okay, if I can't get a job at the only Internet company, then I better try starting something and that was Elon Musk went with the old, if you can't get a job, create your own job. , he was metaphorically expelled. at the bottom, but often the bottom is the best area to learn to swim, what are the things that are most likely to affect the future of humanity, you know, on a macro level and it seemed like it would be like the Internet and the sustainable energy, doing something multiplanetary, and then genetics and artificial intelligence after Elon's arrival in Silicon Valley, Elon Musk began to think critically about the areas of technology that would likely affect the future of humanity and while genetics, Artificial intelligence and the creation of life are multiplanetary.

Planetariums were probably out of the hands of 24-year-old Elon Musk, one area of ​​technology he thought he could have an impact on was an area that at the time was barely an airstrike, was not monetizable, and was far from being a huge industry but would later become one of the most important pieces of daily human life, of course we are talking about the Internet after having experience writing and selling gaming software as a teenager, Elon had the general knowledge necessary to start writing Internet software. Musk began writing software with the goal of making useful things happen on the Internet, possibly hinting that he had no real idea of ​​what he was trying to create at first, however, this would change when Elon Musk would create his first salable Internet software, described as software that allows media companies to convert their print and paper content into digital content, so we thought well that the media industry would need help converting their content from a print medium to an electronic one and clearly had money, this software was the basis for Elon Musk's first zip2 company, which was created with his brother Kimball.

Now starting a technology company would be exciting for any 24 year old, however, as Elon himself said, he would have no idea how difficult the first company would be. end up being a friend of mine who has a great saying about building a company, which is creating, trying to build a company and make it successful is like eating glass and staring into the abyss, having moved from South Africa and still having $100,000 in debt. Elon Musk's university student was so poor that he could not afford a house or an office for his company. So what were his options here?

He couldn't rent both at the same time, it was an office or an apartment and since then offices were cheaper than houses he rented an office space and just slept on the couch while doing a presentation at a local gym he had no money I actually had negative money I had huge student debts so I actually couldn't afford a place to stay and an office so I rented an office because I actually got a cheaper office and then I was able to get a place to stay and then I slept a couple of times. This whole scenario couldbe What Elon Musk later described as the reality that kicks in after starting a company.

I mean, what tends to happen is that it's pretty exciting for the first few months after starting a company and then reality makes things not go as well as planned. Customers are not registering the technology or the product is not working as well as he thought, for anyone who thinks that Elon might have had some advantage or sailed smoothly in the beginning, it seems that the reality was much the same. On the contrary, after starting this first company, Elon, along with his brother, a friend of his mother and three paid salespeople on contingency, began marketing the product to various media outlets achieving small glimpses of success here and there, we began to get some interest, that is, half the time.

What is the Internet even in Silicon Valley? But every once in a while someone would bite and get a little money from them. The company then grew and closed deals with larger clients, such as the New York Times, as revenue grew, so did the company's overall value, and after four years of running the company, Elon and his brother Kimball they would finally reach that golden prizepoint that most tech startups could only dream of at first with the acquisition of the business of a larger company in February 1999, 3.5 years after the start of development, the tech company compact acquired zip2 for a price of 305 million dollars, of the 305 million dollars went 22 million to elon and 15 million went to his brother kimball so what did this mean for the subject of our story?

Well, Elon had gone from a broke guy who lived on a couch in his company's office to a multimillionaire overnight and Elon's new status of billionaire. Millionaire meant spending some of the money on some new toys, how are you talking? It's seven in the morning and Elon Musk is eagerly waiting for the golden reward from him. She rewarded him for paying his dues in the valley. I hope to receive a car that I just bought called mclaren f1 it's a million dollars for a car it's decadent about eight months after receiving 22 million for the sale of zip2 elon

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made his first television appearance in a cnn segment talking about the luxurious life of millionaires in Silicon Valley now, this was the first time the world had the opportunity to see the slightly cocky young Elon Musk showing off his new 1 million mclaren f1 and explaining how he made millions at such a young age back in the year 95.

There weren't many people on the Internet and certainly no one was making any money at all. Most people thought the internet was going to be a fad now, as a side note, about a year after showing off his mclaren on the CNN segment, Elon actually crashed it on the way to a meeting after the Billionaire Peter Thiel will ask Elon what this car can do. He didn't really know how to drive the mclaren and peter says so what can this do and then he says I'm probably number one on the celebrity list. The last words I said look at this Elon being the crazy businessman who is then hilariously hitchhiked from the site of the million-dollar crash to his meeting, making sure investor relations aren't soured afterward. a late arrival once the car was taken care of so I used ride too um and then we continued the meeting but all is well that ends well because in 2007 the car was repaired and not sold at a profit which is not surprising considering that The car would be worth around $20 million today, but we're making progress a bit. of ourselves when talking about Elon's car accident in 2000.

Let's think back to the 1999

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one more time and go from there. There were two other things in this CNN segment that were extremely iconic and worth documenting when talking about Elon's car accident. Long-term story First, it was mainly a display of how far Elon Musk had come in just three short years. Just three years ago I was showering in the office and sleeping on the office floor and now, obviously, I have a million dollars. car and quite a few amenities, but perhaps the most important and overly significant section was that of Elon, who stated that instead of purchasing materialistic items like his million-dollar car, he was more interested in building and creating a new company.

I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and make it my personal fiefdom, you know, I'm much more interested in trying to build and create a new company, a new company that maybe, unbeknownst to Elon, would be at the forefront. around the corner, so this is an ATM in which What we are going to do is transform the traditional banking industry to transform the traditional banking industry. Elon's new goal is somewhat of an ambitious goal considering the size of the banking industry, but after selling zip for 300 million, he would say his confidence was skyrocketing. -high and was ready for a new challenge after selling zip.

I want to do something else on the Internet and it seemed to me that there had not been as much innovation in the financial sector in March 1999, just a month after the sale. zip2 elon musk founded x.com using 10 million of the 22 million received from the sale of his previous company this website x.com was a website that would later be known as the now incredibly popular paypal but at first it was simply unknown website called x.com accompanied by a lot of funds and a dream, the basic goal of x.com was that customers could email money to each other instead of having to deal with everything in cash and then we had a small feature that took us about a day which was the ability to email money from one customer to another, a feature that was relatively unknown at the time, but perhaps the most significant or moral element of elon's second company was to highlight the fact that the second business is always easier than the first Elon had gained extensive business experience after zip2, which ultimately allowed him to navigate better.

The second time he had more money, so he no longer had to sleep on the office couch. He knew how to lead a team of employees, so he missed less time. salaries, but perhaps most significantly, Elon had discovered a new method of growing PayPal faster than he ever thought possible: a customer would essentially act as a salesperson for you for everyone to attract other customers, the general setup of PayPal It meant that when a user would send money to their friend, that friend would have to sign up for PayPal and be automatically recruited into the system.

So what does this mean? It means that the more people use PayPal, the faster it will grow, a great exponential growth strategy and it's safe to say. That this strategy made PayPal completely explode, we launched it after the first year and by the end of the second year we had a million customers, so it gives you a test, you know, it gives you an idea of ​​how quickly things grow, but like all things in life. Not everything was sunshine and rainbows, since in October 2000, just a year and a half after creating the company, Elon Musk was fired as CEO of PayPal, his own company, he went on a trip to raise investments and when he returned , What happened?

Okay, yes. Elon explained that despite marrying his first wife, Justine, 10 months earlier in January 2000, he had not yet gone on his honeymoon, so he decided to leave Silicon Valley and go away for two weeks, getting married early of that year and didn't have a vacation or a honeymoon or anything, it's kind of a financing trip combined with a honeymoon slash, yeah the problem with this was at a time when PayPal had multiple major problems that caused it to many key people had higher levels of stress while Elon was on vacation, he returned to find that his position As the CEO had been replaced by another key person in the company, there was a lot of concern and that caused the management team to decide that I would not was the right person to run the company, which wasn't exactly the best scenario for Elon Musk.

However, things always seem to work themselves out in the long run for Elon Musk because in 2002 eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion and Elon received $165 million from the purchase. This whole situation led to Elon patching things up with the former team that fired him as CEO and good relations with former business partners was exactly what he needed as his next endeavor starting in 2003 would be so ambitious that he would need all the good luck. that I could handle. I think global warming is a very serious problem and it's something that we have to address and the only way to address it is to create a car that doesn't add carbon emissions to the environment and I think the way to do that is with electric vehicles 2003, a year in which Elon Musk would become involved in the company that he believed would change the course of humanity, a company dedicated to the environment, dedicated to the best customer experience, dedicated to success, but without a doubt a company that would have to do a stopover in hell to get there.

Of course, we are talking about the now incredibly popular Tesla motors. Now a common misconception about Tesla is that Elon Musk actually started it. That's not true. The company was founded by two lesser-known engineers who simply had a vision for transportation using energy that was better for the environment. In 2003, we decided to start a new company and wanted something this time that actually had a bit more of a real mission. Now, let's look back a little. Remember when we mentioned the To start, Elon actually moved to Silicon Valley in the first place to work on energy storage technologies for electric cars.

The reason I came to Stanford was actually to work on energy storage technologies for electric cars. Long after I first moved to Silicon Valley, Elon thought working at an Internet company was a better opportunity because of the timing. which was 1995. I thought I could work on electric vehicle technology and do my PhD at Stanford and see how the Internet was built or I could stop my studies and try to be part of the Internet, but in 2003 the Internet was significantly more common and maybe Elon wanted return to his dream of building electric cars. If big car companies aren't going to create electric cars themselves, then a startup needs to be created to do it. electric cars For this reason, Elon decided to provide Tesla with financing worth $6.5 million in February 2004, approximately eight months after the company was created, which ultimately resulted in Elon Musk being named president of The company between 2004 and 2008 Elon Musk and the team at Tesla worked tirelessly on the production of their first car, the Tesla Roadster, which was introduced in 2006, two years after Elon Musk began participating in the company.

Hello everyone, I'm Sebastián Blanco. I'm here for the Green autoblog and Netscape.com. We are at the presentation. of the tesla roadster, the car was launched on the market in 2008, incredibly exciting for the company, however, elon musk could never have predicted how difficult the year 2008 would end up being for him, as 2008 is not a good time to be a company of automobiles, especially an emerging automobile company and especially an electric car company, which was like stupidity, squared the global financial crisis, an economic recession that would end up challenging even the most sophisticated in the world of business and economic recessions They generally challenge car companies more than any other. company like when people don't have a lot of money buying a 100,000 electric car is not usually at the top of the financial budget for this reason, just before Christmas 2008, Tesla was two or three days away from bankruptcy, in fact, in at least late 2008 we were just days away from bankruptcy, it was literally two or three days, maybe tesla along with another company created by elon called spacex, which will be discussed later, they were both given a chance of success about 10 each, I basically gave as much to spacex as Tesla from the beginning had a less than ten percent chance of succeeding and Elon Musk said he wouldn't even let his friends invest in the company because he didn't want to losing his money, on top of all this 2008.

It would be the same year that Elon Musk's first marriage would come to an end Justine Musk Elon Musk's first wife explained that she felt as if she had become nothing more than a trophy wife and She also claimed that Elon constantly put her down for not doing as well as him Possibly it was a problem stemming from their equal social status in college, but a big difference 10 years later, after the divorce with Justine, Elon Musk later proposed to hermarriage to British actor Tallulah Riley after dating for just 10 days, Elon very quickly proposed the idea of ​​letting go. he's attractive and I probably would have said yes to anyone who seemed halfway sensible if they proposed to me for just 10 days just because it's an interesting thing to do, however in 2013 this relationship had also resulted in divorce but things weren't as good. bad on the relationships front elon seemed to be having serious problems but in 2013 the business side was absolutely booming with the global financial crisis something of a distant memory tesla stock rose by 450 between start and finish 2013, things were looking up.

So much so that Tesla's struggles took a backseat while one of Evon's most ambitious goals began to become a priority. What I really want to try to achieve here is make Mars look possible, make it look like it's possible. something we can do in our lifetimes In September 2016, Elon Musk announced that taking humans to Mars was officially one of his main goals. Well, in the case of Spacex, he kept asking me why we weren't moving toward sending people to Mars. Do you remember that earlier? mentioned that elon had a company called spacex, well spacex was founded in 2002 after elon realized how expensive it was to buy rockets for space travel on an open market and said he could make them for about three percent of the price , the fundamental issue is actually, the cost of access to space rockets was very expensive and the cost per pound per kilogram to orbit had actually increased over the years, it had not decreased, the company's goal was to manufacture cheap rockets and sell them for both private purchases and the government Now, while the business side of the company was kind of cool, Elon's ultimate goal since 2001 was to colonize Mars in a much cooler way, which even has a date set for 2024 After taking humans to Mars in 2024, Elon's next goal is to reduce the cost. of a trip to Mars at the same price as the average home price in the United States, about a hundred thousand dollars, hopefully it will entice people to move to Mars permanently, which is about two hundred thousand dollars, so I think that the probability of establishing a civilization with self-esteem is very high.

Since then, he has passively hinted that getting people to Mars is currently his number one priority, ultimately showing his commitment to making life multiplanetary. Does it really make sense for me to spend time designing and building a house or should I spend that time getting it? We to Mars, I should probably do the latter so you know what's more important, Mars or a house I like. Mars, okay, comes from a rich, well educated, a requirement to make a change in the world, you have to conform to the rules of society to be a good human being, are there limitations as to where your imagination can take your reality? elon musk doesn't seem to think so he set the example just because he may come from an abusive home in pretoria, south africa, doesn't mean you can't restructure the reality that you are living from a nobody to a programmer to an engineer to a man whose only mission has become to guarantee the future of human existence and maybe if you are watching this video in the distant future maybe you are watching this video on autopilot in your electric car or we have already been to Mars and you are using some kind of futuristic technology. piece of technology that none of us can even conceptualize right now and if that's the case, I want you to remember that it all started with one individual, an individual who just wanted to make the world a better place, an individual who at birth was' No It's very different for you or me, an individual who puts humanity before himself, Elon Musk.