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Retired Army Aviator, Commercial Helicopter Pilot, husband, father and grandfather, and enjoying my old age in Missouri !

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@Daily100s @Mide214 Now that was, without a doubt , most funny! 😂

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@saniyafatma1278 So…, why didn’t you park properly? 💁🏼‍♂️

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@CharlieWard709 Most definitely! And get that 21 million back! 🤨

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@saniyafatma1278 19…, on my way to Vietnam…

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@catturd2 I was drafted at 19. The army thought I was qualified and sent me to flight training. Best thing that has ever happened to me. GO ARMY!

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@DavidJHarrisJr Ignorance is bliss! 🤨

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@JoeyMannarino 😂

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@Simi_2210_ 12

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@Geniustechw Be Black…

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

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. 🚀

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@itsrosesm GOOD! 👍

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@WarMonitor3 Close the bases there and get out of NATO and the UN. Think 🤔 of all the billions saved!

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@thomas_taistra @SaltyGoat17 TDS is bad in you. 😁

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@SaltyGoat17 That’s easy…, OBAMA! 🤨

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@otokyo We deal with women like the one in the pic! 🧐

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@Monica55dzrh I’ll be dead! 🤨

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@its_Lexieroy I agree wholeheartedly! 💁🏼‍♂️

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@pirooooon3 Get used to it, Buddy. 😉

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@GrowSmarter_x Number 3…, no time for careful aiming! 🤨

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@Geniustechw I think that’s an African tradition…, isn’t it? 🤔