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Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet. When I was a child, my father always called me a fool. He never respected me. And he never believed that I could do anything in my life. To him, I was a complete failure. This is the story of a man with a really miserable childhood. He was beaten by his father at any time. And so were the school bullies. Once he was thrown off the stairs. But unlike other young people who were bullied, he has a passion for reading since childhood. His whole childhood was dedicated to reading and reading. And later, when he grew up, he became the richest man in the world. Yes, that's the story of Elon Musk, a billionaire with a strange childhood. Elon Musk, from a bullied child to the richest man on the planet. Elon Musk is sometimes called the real Iron Man in the media. They see him as a superhero who can do extraordinary things. Everything Musk can do comes from his own effort. However, things are not always easy for Elon Musk. To hold hundreds of billions of wealth in his hands, Elon Musk has tasted enough spicy, bitter, sweet, dull and difficult challenges. The childhood was bullied. Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His father, Eron Musk, was an electronic engineer. And his mother was May Musk, a nutritionist and also a professional model who appeared on the cover of the magazine Time. After his parents divorced in 1979, Elon Musk, 9 years old, decided to live with his father. Later, Musk once shared that this decision was not a good idea. Elon Musk's father always called him a fool and he was ready to beat him at any time. Elon Musk has been fond of reading since childhood and has a fondness for programming. Since elementary school, he almost spent his time reading all the books of Britannica instead of going out like other kids. Elon Musk's mother wrote again that when Elon was little, my son liked to read everything. The time of going to school was not easy for Elon Musk. He was once beaten by bullies to the point of hospitalization. He was even thrown down a staircase until he passed out. Unusual childhood However, these things seem to have nothing to do with Elon Musk doing unusual things. In 1983, when he was only 12 years old, Elon Musk sold a simple game called Plata in a computer magazine for $500. Later, Elon Musk described this as an ordinary game, but better than Flappy Bird. After graduating from middle school, Musk moved to Canada to live with his mother, sister Tosca and brother Kimban. He studied for two years at Queen University in Kingston, Ontario and completed his research at the University of Pennsylvania. Through the university transfer program, he has two degrees in physics and economics. While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, Musk rented a 10-bedroom house with his friends and turned it into a nightclub. This experience helped him gain more early business experience. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Elon Musk went to Stanford University to study to become a doctor, but before the program started, he left school to pursue his passion. The road to success After leaving the doctor's program, Elon Musk and his brother Kimban spent $28,000 on Zip2, a tool inspired by the replacement of those heavy-duty YellowPay addresses at that time. When Elon started with Zip2, the Internet had only appeared for a few years, most companies had not yet used the Internet. The only way to find a business address was to open YellowPay and find it. To save money, both had to sleep and take a shower thanks to the office of the Organizing Committee. Musk, at that time, was the main member, so he had to stick his face in front of the computer to work. Elon Musk handwritten each line to digitize all the information in YellowPay. However, the biggest challenge for both brothers was in 1995, it was very difficult to convince businesses that the Internet played an important role. Many businesses at that time thought that online advertising was the most ridiculous thing they had ever heard. Nevertheless, this idea of ​​the storm brought success to the two brothers Musk. A series of large and small companies all over the United States signed up to use Zip2, creating a revolution in the rescue industry. In 1999, Musk sold Zip2 to Compaq for nearly $341 million in cash and stock. Musk withdrew $22 million from this deal. Elon Musk said, I myself was also surprised that someone paid for the software we created. Do not choose a comfortable life. In the era of the Internet boom, after the millionaires have succeeded, they will either withdraw to the background to enjoy the fun and choose capital for a new business to establish in exchange for the right to own a share of the company or set up a new company with other people's money. However, Musk is a law-loving person. He did not choose that shortcut but decided to spend the money he had to make a bigger idea he wanted to change the world. Elon Musk said, I want the second company to have a global impact. I turned to finance because I felt a lot of inspiration and potential in this field when combined with the Internet. Using $10 million from the money earned after selling Zip2, Musk continued his career with X.com, an online bank in 1999. After about a year, X.com merged with Confinity, a finance startup founded by Peter Thiel and Mark Levkin to establish a new company called PayPal. This merger, on the one hand, created a lot of benefits but also led to a series of internal conflicts. By the end of 2000, when the conflict reached its peak, those who opposed Musk conducted a coup and promoted Thiel to CEO. However, Musk is still a key player in the company's development process and is a key factor in the PayPal for eBay price of $1.5 billion in 2002. As the largest individual shareholder of PayPal, Elon Musk left behind $165 million when he was just 31 years old. In 2002, before the PayPal service for eBay was completed, Musk began his research on rocket technology. Using $100 million in his hands, he began to establish the Space Development Technology Corporation with the goal of digitalizing the cost of space travel, helping humans become creatures through the process of geoengineering with at least 1 million inhabitants in the next century. In 2004, when Surface just started operating, Musk continued to build another unimaginable company. The electric car manufacturer is named Tesla with the aim of digitalizing the automotive industry around the world, helping people take a leap to the future of sustainable energy. He also left behind $70 million to realize this idea, although in fact it is very rare Two years later, Musk left $10 million to join his brothers to establish another company called Solar City with the goal of digitalizing the production of solar energy for millions of households, contributing a significant reduction in the amount of electricity consumption produced from fossil fuels, and accelerating the use of renewable energy. However, realizing dreams in 2008, Musk's companies were on the verge of bankruptcy. Elon's failure would be the end of Surface, but he still took all the assets for the fourth missile launch. The billionaire also had to rely on family, friends and some investors to save the situation. All efforts paid off. In August 2008, Surface launched its fourth missile and succeeded as expected. This is enough for NASA to trust Musk. The US Air and Space Agency, NASA, has decided to give SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to continue the ISS International Space Station. Surface is saved. The night before Christmas 2008, Musk also signed the last note to save Tesla and investors reluctantly followed Musk. Five months later, the situation began to improve when the company received an additional $50 million in investment from Daimler. This is enough for Elon Musk. At the end of 2015, Musk became the founder of OpenAI, a non-profit research company aimed at promoting friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he continued to co-found Neuralink, a technology company focused on the development of computer-brain interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, a company that builds infrastructure and concentrated tunnels into the most popular tunnels in the world. This system will be in operation for another 7-10 years with an investment of only $6 billion. In 2015, Elon Musk released some test images of the Hyperloop system and users were tested the product in June 2016. Iron Man Real Life There seems to be nothing that Elon Musk can't do. This is also why director John Favreau saw Elon Musk as an inspiration to create the Tony Stark character in Marvel. All the extraordinary things Elon Musk can do are not thanks to his superpowers but from his own efforts. On January 8, 2021, Elon Musk officially overtook Jeff Bezos to become the richest man in the world when his assets reached a record of $188.5 billion, more than $1.5 billion than Amazon's CEO. In a moment of history, Elon Musk was just on Twitter In a share with BBC last December, Elon Musk this year stepped to the age of 50 said he did not want to die rich. Like Bill Gates, he considered the death and leaving money in the bank was a failure.