Stéphane Gaubert

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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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Top 20 Greatest Film Directors of All Time

🇬🇧 Alfred Hitchcock
🇺🇸 Stanley Kubrick
🇺🇸 Steven Spielberg
🇺🇸 Martin Scorsese
🇯🇵 Akira Kurosawa
🇺🇸 Orson Welles
🇺🇸 Francis Ford Coppola
🇺🇸 Billy Wilder
🇸🇪 Ingmar Bergman
🇺🇸 John Ford
🇮🇹 Federico Fellini
🇬🇧 David Lean
🇨🇦 James Cameron
🇬🇧 Christopher Nolan
🇺🇸 Quentin Tarantino
🇬🇧 Ridley Scott
🇳🇿 Peter Jackson
🇯🇵 Hayao Miyazaki
🇺🇸 George Lucas
🇮🇹 Sergio Leone

Which director has the greatest filmography of all time?

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Top music artists ranked by record sales, streams, and global popularity (1969-2025)

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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Next week’s cover, “After the Comeback,” by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, captures the joy on the streets of New York City after the Knicks’ historic win in Game Four of the N.B.A. Finals. https://t.co/zLRZzgL83N

[Mick Jagger @MickJagger]

Remembering David Hockney, he was kind and always had a sparkle in his eye. He never stopped experimenting and is one of the finest painters of our generation.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge in the 1400s. Here’s how it works:

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

At the top of the Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel kept a small private apartment.

It was not a hidden luxury home, but a quiet room with simple furniture, a piano, scientific instruments, and one of the most unusual views in Paris.

Eiffel used the space to receive selected guests, including Thomas Edison, who visited him there in 1889.

While the tower was shocking Paris from the outside, Eiffel had created something even more unexpected inside it: a private room above the city.

Today, the apartment has been recreated with wax figures of Eiffel, Edison, and Eiffel’s daughter, giving visitors a glimpse into one of the tower’s lesser-known stories.

[Catherine Corbin @Catheri76947001]

David Hockney
Rip!

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[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

Things Christopher Nolan finds "fascinating" (according to his interview with Tom Shone)
-The imagery of blurred heads in the paintings of Francis Bacon
-The absence of heroics in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
-The orphaning of Howard Hughes
-Kubrick's use of miniatures in 200I: A Space Odyssey
-The moment in Heat where De Niro's gang slashes the vacuum-sealed bag of money
-The work of Jorge Luis Borges
-Brando's recital of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" at the end of Apocalypse Now
-Pink Floyd: The Wall
-The work of Industrial Light & Magic
-His father's work in advertising for Ridley Scott The illusion of scale in movies
-Gothic architecture
-Einstein's thought experiments involving separated twins
-The "great game" in Southeast Asia between the British Empire and Russia
-Wilkie Collins's novel The Moonstone
-The way morality is expressed through architecture in Murnaus Sunrise
-The fact that nobody understands how iPads work
-The work of David Lynch
-The way GPS satellites factor in the effects of relativity
-Wikipedia
-A nature documentary he watched unspool backward at age sixteen
-The hydrofoil

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