Elon Musk is a huge inspiration to not just myself but to millions of people all around the world
He's known for his Tesla electric sports cars
But there's a lot more that you didn't know about this guy. Hey guys. How's it going?
I'm Leroy Kenton welcome to another episode of FTD facts
And now I'm excited about this guy the real-life Tony Stark still let's get into the facts but before I continue
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Also, if you love technology hit that like button so Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 he became famous
for starting Tesla Motors and SpaceX
But he first made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal
When he on musk was 17 years old he moved from South Africa to Canada. He attended college in the u.s.
at the University of Pennsylvania after
Graduating he moved to California in order to begin graduate school in physics at Stanford University
He left Stanford after just two days after deciding to take advantage of the internet boom
So after dropping out of grad school Elon Musk established his first company
zip2 which provided online newspapers with maps and business directories he sold that company in 1999 for
307 million dollars
Elon Musk co-founded Tesla Motors a company that designs and manufactures electric sports cars
Tesla was able to succeed in the electric car market where other large manufacturers failed and
Currently with Tesla he serves as its CEO and chief product architect
Elon Musk II also founded SpaceX AKA space and exploration
Technologies which is a company that creates and manufacturer's space launch vehicles?
He aims to reduce the cause of spaceflight in hopes of expanding human life beyond just earth
imagine that colonizing on Mars
despite his enormous success in being a multi billionaire both of his main companies SpaceX and Tesla Motors came very close to
failing so Tesla's first electric car the
Roadster faced an ongoing string of production problems and
SpaceX had three launch failures before its first and final effort was a success so that clearly goes to show you that just
Because you failed doesn't mean that you got to give up on your dreams
You're just now one step closer because you've tried something that didn't work, so you're one step closer to finding
What will work, but continuing with another fact in regards to Elon Musk's money?
Yeah, he almost went broke
Okay
So amid the Great Recession and an expensive divorce from his first wife?
Elon Musk was living off of loans from his wealthy friends
He put his last 35 million dollars into Tesla and maintained his stake in the company despite his lack of cash
Tesla went public and today
It's valued at thirty three point four billion dollars Elon Musk himself is worth nineteen point three billion dollars according to Forbes
now in 2013 Elon Musk
He introduced his latest endeavor
Which is the Hyperloop is a new form of?
Transportation that could theoretically send people from San Francisco to LA in half an hour by using pressurized tubes
Now this is still in the works and Elon Musk. Has said that if no one else will build it
He definitely will do it himself
He also believes that AI is
humanity's biggest existential
Threat yeah, he's pretty cautious of AI surprisingly in fact. He fares at AI could become more powerful than people
Perhaps causing human extinction if it grows too smart so in an interview with Vanity Fair. This is what he says and I quote
The important thing is that if we do get some sort of runaway algorithm
Then the human AI collective can stop the runway algorithm
but if there's a large centralized AI that decides then there's no stopping it and
Elon Musk isn't the only one to fear the power of the AI
Other leaders in the tech world as well as scientists are on the same page including Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates
Let's dive a little bit into his love life now and switch gears so Elon Musk has been married a total of three times
Having married and subsequently divorced British actor, Tallulah Riley
twice
Elon Musk also provide a large amount of inspiration for the character Tony Stark aka, Iron Man
parts of Iron Man 2 were actually filmed outside and inside parts of space X Elon Musk
Even has a cameo in Iron Man 2. How did I not even know this I loved that movie?
He also spends a lot of money on mansions. Yeah, so Elon Musk
He bought a home in Los Angeles
Which is his fifth in a fancy neighborhood in bel-air for twenty four point two five million dollars now before that
Purchase he apparently had already spent 48 million dollars on other
Mansions bringing that total spend to around seventy two million dollars and for a final fact Elon Musk
has been referred to as a
Trillionaire now what is that?
It's a new class of high-tech entrepreneurs looking to use their wealth to make science fiction dreams into modern
Reality and that concludes this episode on one of the most amazing people of our time Elon Musk
I'm so excited to see like oh my gosh sci-fi movies are becoming
Real-life with this guy be sure to leave your thoughts and comments down below, and uh time to go to the end screen
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