Question about Elon Musk..

Imagine if Elon retired after selling PayPal. He had $20 mil in his pocket. Decided to keep 10, and invest 10 in SpaceX.
10 mil was A LOT of money when he got it. It still is, but the value was so much more back then in terms of investments.

What if he didn't?

How many years would have passed until NASA or someone else decided it's time to reuse rockets?

And it's just an example. tesla is another good one. How many years of setbacks would have happened if it weren't for him?

Never mind what he does with these companies for his pure joy (launching a tesla into space, etc). I'm talking about the advancements he powered.

Of course, he has his moments. Everyone does, he just chooses to display them publicly.

Think about Mars. If he pulls it off(and I'm sure he will) he will go down in history as the man who colonized another planet. Let that sink in for a moment.

On Earth, most people thank the gods for this planet. Imagine people on Mars, 2,000 years from now thanking Elon he pushed through.

An extreme example, I know. I'm just pointing out how big this is and why he doesn't want to retire, nor he should.

Imagine if the Boring Company will finally gain momentum. How fast does the Government build new subways? Imagine if this guy drills them 20 times faster?

Don't even need to go into PayPal.

Now take Jeff Bezos, and name one thing he'll go down in history for. The only one I can come up with is earning billions on selling commodity for people. Because that's how he made his money.
Its insane that he sold PayPal for only 20m I thought it was WAY WAY more
 
Its insane that he sold PayPal for only 20m I thought it was WAY WAY more
$20m was his cut if I remember correctly. The company was sold for more than $1billion or so. He was talking about it on khan academy.
 
Im starting to think he may be a bit nuts. Like really.

But thats fine, i like the guy.

Nuts or not, i am accepting of people and um the organic organisms that identify as something other than people.

Uf that hurt my brain :P

He is. Unfortunately, most people who achieved similar succes in the history were somewhat similar. You know you can't really separate craziness from genius

@OP when you have such amount of money, what else can you do! If he enjoys partying, he wouldn't be in where he is today.

He is the richest man because working is all he can do, so he will just keep doing what he is good at. Thanks god I am the opposite of that
 
For someone else: "go to hell"
For Elon: "go to Mars"
 
Probably the single most influential man of our generation

Just like Nikola tesla, Edison, or Einstein to some degree

You forgot Scorpion Ghost.

How could you? I dont believe you man.
 
Elon is a megalomaniac and mentally not quite up to scratch (some people say).

Apart from that you always want more, that is his life what else should he do.
His life consists of making money. Just like most other people. I love making money too, for me its much more fun then playing games.
The difference is only that he has enough money left at the end of the month, normal workers do not.

No idea why so many people (especially older people) hate him. The first thing I hear is always, the guy is disabled but look how the dances.
He changes the world while other people sit at their 9 to 5 job and fight for their survival and even be satisfied with it.
(Well actually I already know why they hate him, manipulated by the media).

But maybe there are reasons to hate him and I just don't know.
 
Elon is a megalomaniac and mentally not quite up to scratch (some people say).

Apart from that you always want more, that is his life what else should he do.
His life consists of making money. Just like most other people. I love making money too, for me its much more fun then playing games.
The difference is only that he has enough money left at the end of the month, normal workers do not.

No idea why so many people (especially older people) hate him. The first thing I hear is always, the guy is disabled but look how the dances.
He changes the world while other people sit at their 9 to 5 job and fight for their survival and even be satisfied with it.
(Well actually I already know why they hate him, manipulated by the media).

But maybe there are reasons to hate him and I just don't know.

Maybe they hate him, cuz they aint him!

Or maybe they see him rollin', they hatin'!

The same reasons they hate me for :'( :D
 
Hopefully he is sent to make this world a better place, though I have my doubts in believing in any of these revolutionary characters.
 
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