Elon Musk, who wants to change the future of humanity

Included in Time magazine's 100 most influential figures in 2010; was one of the 75 most influential people in the 21st century of the 2008 Esquire men's magazine, Elon Musk made many fans not only because of his great achievements, but also because of his relentless hard work.

Elon Musk wants to build a global internet satellite system

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With the dream of creating things that could affect the future of mankind, in the order of Musk's order - ' one is the internet, two are renewable energy, three is to conquer space ', PayPal, SpaceX , Tesla, SolarCity turn out, bringing positive changes to human life.

Crazy or extraordinary?

Elon Musk ( born 1971 ) proved to be superior since he was very young. Self-taught programming, at 12 years old, Musk sold the first software - a space game called Blastar - for about $ 500 . This may be the first toddler steps on Musk's path to learning and changing the world.

The decision to leave home ( South Africa ) was 17 years old, partly because of the war in my country, but the main reason was because Musk had a higher dream. He dreamed of coming to the United States, where technology evolved into the first category, with the thought of ' That's where great things can be done '. And indeed, his later learning, creativity and business activities are all happening here.

With his remarkable knowledge of business, physics, materials science, Musk began to consider and participate in areas that he thought would have a great influence on the future of humanity.

Musk's ideas are often considered crazy by people around them because they are too unreasonable and far from reality. Can anyone doubt that cars can run without gasoline?

Will solar energy replace all other fuel sources, including natural gas? That the rocket can automatically return to the starting point to wait for the next journey? And then humans will be able to become ' multi-planets '? But then, Musk has shown us that, to be successful, it is important to dare to think, dare to do.

Turning extraordinary things into normal

Musk simply started in 1995 with the Zip2 project to provide digital content publishing software for new organizations. In 1999, he sold Zip2 to Compaq's AltaVista division for $ 307 million in cash and $ 34 million in stock, shifted its focus to X.com, a company of online financial services and payment. email that he co-founded.

With a vision and belief in P2P online trading, X.com acquired Confinity, a company that operates an auction system of scale similar to X.com, called PayPal. Later, Musk directly aimed at the online payment service and changed the name of the company to PayPal - this decision was not agreed by CEO Bill Harris, so Harris left the company in 2000.

However, the truth has proved, Musk's beliefs have not misplaced. His goal of establishing a global payment system was quickly supported and in 2001, PayPal developed strongly and extensively, loved by its users because of its speed and convenience.

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After selling PayPal to eBay for $ 1.5 billion worth of stock, Musk established a third company, Space Exploration Technologies ( SpaceX ), in June 2002. Musk hopes to be able to create rockets with advanced technology, less fuel consumption, reuse and move to space easily.

He had always believed that the exploration of the universe was an important step in development, in other words, preserving humanity against the unpredictable peril. SpaceX is where he made that ambition.

The company's first two missiles, Falcon 1 and Falcon 9, and its first ship named Dragon. In 2002, SpaceX won a $ 1.6 billion contract with NASA for 12 Falcon 9 and Dragon flights to the International Space Station ( ISS ) - and this is an important milestone in the space station. transporting goods to the station and back.

On May 25, 2012, SpaceX's Dragon ship landed at ISS, marking a historic milestone for the first time a private company launched and successfully delivered a vehicle to ISS.

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Musk always had bold ideas that surprised others. Even more surprised that he can successfully implement such crazy ideas and Tesla Motors is one of them.

Musk's goal is not for wealth, he simply wants to ' save ' the earth, so the development orientation of Tesla Motors is to make an initial profit to serve the long-term purpose of supply. Provide affordable electric cars to every home. Changing fuel / oil to electricity at this time will significantly reduce global crude oil consumption.

In an active role as a strategic guide and at the same time directing the design of product models, Musk led Tesla Motors to develop quickly. The test of the first sports electric car - Tesla Roadster received Time magazine's 2006 " Best Inventory" award in the field of ' Transport Invention '.

In June 2012, the Tesla Model S launched and immediately created a fever, becoming a phenomenon of the year with a series of awards. In May 2013, Tesla Motors had its first quarter operating profitably since listing in 2011.

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After several years of development, SolarCity has risen to become the solar energy provider for the largest population in the United States since 2011.

At the same time, SolarCity also partnered with Tesla Motors, providing free electric charging stations for Tesla electric vehicles and solar power storage facilities during low operating times. Until now, Musk's inventions remain stable and sustainable, a hope for our future.

On the one hand, development of electric cars, on the other hand, Musk proposed the idea of ​​using clean energy - which is solar energy here. This is also part of Musk's campaign against global growth. This is why SolarCity was founded, with the mission to provide a cheap, safe fuel source to users.

Not only do people admire their talent and wisdom, Musk is also respected by his charitable activities. He is the president of the Musk Foundation, focusing on non-profit philanthropy in the areas of science education, child health care and clean energy.

His charitable activities are not only to help others, but also to spread clean energy to disadvantaged regions around the world.

Iron man in real life

With these achievements, Elon Musk is considered a symbol of the space technology industry, becoming a living legend ( in 2010 ) and in the Top 20 most powerful CEOs in the United States under 40 years old.

His life inspired the story of the famous Ironman Tony Stark. Until now, Musk has been actively researching to realize his dream of changing the future of humanity.