Elon Musk: The architect of tomorrow
Elon Musk is with his net worth of $20.8 billion, ranked as one of the wealthiest persons in Forbes 400 (“Wikipedia”). He is a workaholic, has an insane work ethic, doesn’t go with the flow and he knows what he wants. He is always completely motivated on everything he is doing and he always has his skin in the game (“CNBC... ”). On time he said: “If other people are putting 40 hours in a week, and you are putting in 100, you will achieve in four months, what it takes for them a year to achieve”. This shows his way of thinking and why he is so successful (“CitizenTekk”).
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. That’s also the place where he grew up (“Biography...”). At the age of 13 he sold together with his brother chocolate in his neighborhood. With
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After he founded SpaceX, he founded Tesla in 2003 (“25 people…”). Now, Tesla is already a very international successfully company (“Wikipedia”). This is remarkable, because they are making electric cars and Elon Musk could revolutionize our way of thinking about electric cars. He reached exactly what he wanted with Tesla (“CNBC”). Furthermore, Musk is the CEO of the second largest provider of solar systems in the US, “Solar City” (“CitizenTekk”). But that’s not all!
In 2013, he unveiled a concept for a high-speed transportation system, in which the pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion, driven by an air compressor (“25 people”). He wants to make it possible to travel between New York City and Washington DC in less than 30 minutes (“25 people”). One of his latest projects started in December 17th in 2016: When Musk tweeted while he was stuck in traffic: ”Am going to build a tunnel machine and just start digging…” (“Wikipedia”). And then he founded a company called “The Boring Company”. But there isn’t any more information about that