Real Alpha Series: Elon Musk – Wondering why Elon is listed as a Real Alpha? To us at the Real Alpha Mag, we see this bad ass Entrepreneur as the Real Alpha Entrepreneur. No one else in this world has a stronger vision for space than him.
Elon Musk is a bright inventor, visionary of our time who is dubbed The real-life “Iron Man”. Not forgetting that he is one of the few people who have the privilege of being featured along side Robert Downey Junior in Marvel’s Iron Man Series.
Elon Musk has an estimated net-worth of $19.4 Billion dollars and is listed as one of the world’s richest and most powerful people of our time.
Elon Musk is born Elon Reeve Musk on the 28th of June 1971. He is a Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer and Investor in multiple businesses that he Founded or Co-Founded. He was born and raised in South Africa before moving to Canada to attend Queen’s University. Transferring to University of Pennsylvania 2 years later, he got his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wharton school.
Elon Musk dropped out of his PH.D. course in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University to start his entrepreneurship journey and Co-Founded Zip2, a web company that eventually got acquired by Compaq in 1999 for $340. This sale made him one of the Silicon Valley millionaires but he did not stop there and soon moved on to launch X.Com.
X.Com later merged with Confinity to become what we know today as PayPal. They eventually sold Paypal to eBay in 2002.
Elon Musk is the Founder of SpaceX, The Boring Company, CEO of Tesla Motors, CEO of Neuralink, Chairman of SolarCity and Co-chairman of OpenAI.
One of the primary reason why we think Elon Musk is a Real Alpha is easy, Elon goes after his dreams with a passion like none other. There are very few people in this world who dare to push the boundaries of humanity. There are even fewer who dare to lead the way in industries that are not tried and tested. But for Elon, he is a true Entrepreneur who dares to take the lead in starting up things that have not been done before.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
Take for example his earlier venture, X.Com was trying to solve the issue of online payment when cheque payment was common place. Everyone said that he was going against the banks and he would not make it but he did. Once he sold PayPal to eBay, he moved on to tackle the issue of electric cars.
Again, auto makers said that he will never make it in this industry where electric vehicles would not make enough range or will cost too much for it to become mass market. But as we all know, Tesla is now one of the biggest producers of Electric Cars and is also listed by Musk on the stock exchange.
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” – Elon Musk
The most Real Alpha thing that we really love about Musk is the fact that he dares to challenge what very few people have done. Space. Through SpaceX, he is tackling the issue of reusable rockets that will allow the USA to send people and cargo into space at a much cheaper rate.
The video below has a good summary of what he has achieved and is trying to achieve.
Very few people dare to dream big dreams but not for Elon Musk, he is worried that he will one day run out of big dreams to go for and he works towards them with such great focus.
Elon Musk’s dream is for humanity to become multi-planetary species that will settle down on other planets. He has started making plans to go to Mars and will hope to send people there soon through some of his most ambitious programmes.
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Real Alpha Series: Elon Musk
