Elon Musk was born in Africa in 1971. He grew up being bullied and having family problems, and he moved to North America in his 20’s. He attended college both in America and Canada, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a bachelor’s degree in physics. One of the smaller companies that he co-founded was bought by PayPal, and he would go on to use that money found two companies: Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla is the largest manufacturer of electric cars, and is pioneering in reducing pollution in cars as a whole, and setting up charging stations around the United States. SpaceX is the largest privately owned space exploration company in the world, and has been making drastic developments in the world of reusable rockets and cheaper flights. SpaceX has also had contracts to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, and that is where it gets a portion of its funding from.
I admire Elon’s perseverance. There were several times in his career where he was very close to giving up, but he never did. I also admire that Elon worked his way up from a kid who was bullied in grade school to a man who is currently in the process of changing the world.