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 world’s 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 𝕏
- 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 “it’s impossible”
- 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 him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
Dear eBay $eBay shareholders,
We urge you to support @ryancohen and GameStop in the acquisition offer.
In addition to your insiders/board directors:
1) not buying ANY shares the last 5 years…
2) selling $120M worth of stock the last 5 years…
3) we are willing to bet there is NO board member / insider that uses eBay as an actual user on the platform.
Ryan Cohen, meanwhile, has been an active eBay user for the last SIX YEARS!!!
He grew up on eBay.
It’s meaningful to him, and he’ll treat it like a family business. He’ll own it forever.
Ryan will take $0 salary, and he will *most likely* (speculating here) continue to buy shares with personal capital.
He has done this consistently with $GME since taking over.
If push comes to shove, support Ryan.
There aren’t many CEOs of his caliber.
You won’t regret it.
I have a crazy idea
Let's require all US Senator and House members to face recall elections, and if they fail to get supermajority support, he or she is GONE and cannot run in the replacement election.
Call it "The Fresh Start Act"
This would have massive bipartisan support