Life of Elona Mask

He aspired not only to get to America, in which he saw his future, but also wanted to avoid military service under the apartheid regime, which he strongly disagreed with. Mask received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, then another bachelor's degree in economics at the Warton Business School, and then he began working at Stanford University on a dissertation on research into advanced energy storage technologies - high-tech batteries that could be used to control transmission energy over a distance. However, after 24 hours he realized that this was not his future, he left the university and, together with his brother, created an Internet company. They did not have the money, they slept on the couches in the office, but in the end, Elon built an extremely successful company - Zip2, which he then sold to Compaq for more than $ 300 million.

From the sale of this company, he personally received 22 million and immediately became very rich. He could no longer work for the rest of his life, it was an incredible success. And, nevertheless, he without a break started to work on the next Internet company, which became even more successful than the previous one. You must have heard of her. This is PayPal.

And then the story becomes truly incredible. In less than 3 years, Musk and his friend, who was also the founder of the company, achieved such success that they could sell PayPal for 1.5 billion dollars, which would bring the Mask 165 million personal profits. He was 31 years old.