THE NEXT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING UP, REMEMBER THIS PHOTO OF ELON MUSK.
IT WAS TAKEN AFTER HIS THIRD ROCKET EXPLODED.
HE HAD JUST LOST $100 MILLION OF HIS OWN MONEY. SPACEX WAS WEEKS AWAY FROM BANKRUPTCY. TESLA WAS STRUGGLING. HE WAS SLEEPING ON FRIENDS’ COUCHES.
THE MEDIA CALLED HIM RECKLESS. INVESTORS PULLED BACK. EVERYONE TOLD HIM TO QUIT.
INSTEAD, HE BET EVERYTHING ON ONE FINAL LAUNCH. IF IT FAILED, SPACEX WAS DONE.
THE LAUNCH SUCCEEDED — AND CHANGED HISTORY.
TODAY, SPACEX IS WORTH OVER $1 TRILLION AND DOMINATES THE PRIVATE SPACE INDUSTRY.
MOST PEOPLE QUIT RIGHT BEFORE THEIR BREAKTHROUGH.
ELON KEPT GOING WHEN EVERYTHING WAS AGAINST HIM.
THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND ALMOST SUCCESS.
STFU and SIT DOWN.
You create NOTHING, you build NOTHING and you employ NO ONE!!!
You’ve lived off taxpayers for decades. You’re the problem, Pocahontas…. Not Elon!!!
22,000 Americans work for SpaceX and the New York Times estimates more than 4,000 became millionaires today when the company went public. Is that not the American dream? $SPCX
🚨 BREAKING:
THIS GUY MIGRATED TO THE U.S. FROM MEXICO AND WORKED AS A WELDER AT SPACEX
HE RECEIVED $10,000 IN STOCK AND WAS PAID $28/HOUR FOR 10 YEARS
AFTER IPO HIS $SPCX STAKE IS WORTH AROUND $1,000,000
HE IS ONE OF 4,400 EMPLOYEES WHO BECAME MILLIONAIRES TODAY!!
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. 🚀