The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the worldโs most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it ๐
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told โitโs impossibleโ
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate himโฆ
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History wonโt remember the people who said it couldnโt be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. ๐
๐ My Dearest Love โค๏ธ,
Lately, my heart has been carrying a sadness I canโt seem to shake ๐๐ญ. The distance between us feels heavier with each passing day ๐ซ๏ธ๐, and I find myself wondering what changed and why things feel so different now.
I miss the way we used to talk, ...
The White House now looks more like a circus ๐ช than a historic monument, and there is no respect for what it represents to the U.S.; Trump uses the votes that put him in the presidencyโand his presidential powerโto squander your tax dollars ๐ฐ.
It is awful to see that money ๐ฐ so poorly invested under the Trump administration; we fail to realize the internal debt we owe to China, while taxpayers' money vanishes like smoke.๐ฏ๐ช๐
Trump set up a boxing ring in front of the @WhiteHouse45 โan expense paid for by the American people with their tax dollars. What a lack of respect for such an exclusive, @historic site; it looks like a circus ๐ช ๐
Congratulations, Elon Musk! You scored a massive win in the market with your company, SpaceX; you delivered on efficiency and achieved both economic and business growth. ๐ฏ๐โฅ๏ธ