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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338468","data":" The Real-life Tony Stark<\/u><\/b><\/p>It seems like there's nothing he can't do. <\/p>As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink, Elon Musk <\/b>seems to be everywhere at once, pushing all kinds of futuristic technologies. He's said he won't be happy until we've escaped Earth and colonized Mars.<\/b><\/p>Between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, and the billions he's made along the way, Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark, which is why he served as an inspiration for Marvel's 2008 \"Iron Man\" film.<\/b><\/p>But it hasn't always been smooth sailing for Musk. Here's how he went from getting bullied in school to becoming a small-time entrepreneur and eventually the CEO of two major companies <\/b>that seem like they're straight out of science fiction\u2014and how he almost went broke along the way.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1673189338469","data":"63bad517cba9f"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338470","data":"1. He was violently bullied as a child.<\/b><\/p> \n\nAlthough Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now a social media force who rubs shoulders with Jeff Bezos and is compared to Steve Jobs' greatness, he came from humble beginnings before discovering entrepreneurship. Musk's classmates bullied and beat him up when he was growing up in South Africa before moving to the United States. He had surgery at the age of 41 to correct a deviated septum.\n\n\"As a child, I was severely beaten, resulting in a jagged septum. As I got older, it became more difficult to breathe, so it was time to fix \" <\/b>He stated this in a tweet in 2013.<\/p>2. He's the original Iron Man<\/b><\/p>\n\nThough the Iron Man comic book character debuted decades ago, the film adaptation drew heavily on Elon Musk's personality and work.<\/p>\nRobert Downey Jr, Hollywood's Iron Man, reportedly asked to meet with Musk while preparing for the first film so he could get a better idea of what a real Tony Stark-style entrepreneur is like.<\/p>\nMusk gave Downey a tour of the SpaceX headquarters, and Downey noted a few of Musk's \"accessible eccentricities.\" Musk's SpaceX facility later served as a filming location for Iron Man 2.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1673189338471","data":"63bacb48cde90"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338472","data":"3. He wrote and sold a video game in 1984 <\/b><\/p>In 1984, he created and sold a video game.<\/p>Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, created his own video game called Blastar<\/b> when he was only 12 years old. When the source code was published in the South African magazine PC and Office Technology, the big tech personality received $500. In 2015, a Google software engineer updated the code to make it HTML5-compatible and playable.<\/p>\nIn the 1990s, he went on to work for the now-defunct Rocket Science Games<\/b>, where he helped develop at least three titles, according to Kotaku.<\/p>\n\"We brought him in to write some very menial, low-level code,\" Rocket Science Games co-founder Peter Barrett said in Ashlee Vance's biography of his time working with Musk. \n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1673189338473","data":"63bacb83329b2"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338474","data":"4. He opened a frat house 'nightclub' <\/b><\/p>Musk stayed in Canada for three years, then left to attend the University of Pennsylvania. Money was still an issue, so when he and his classmate were running short on cash, they opened a nightclub\u2014in their frat house.<\/b><\/p>They attracted up to 1,000 people to the house and raised enough money to pay their rent. The classmate, Adeo Ressi, also went on to become a major success in the tech industry. He remembers that although Musk organized the partying, he didn\u2019t participate. Instead, he\u2019d just play video games in his room.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338475","data":"5. He dropped out of college <\/b><\/p>\nYes, Musk did finish that first degree at the University of Pennsylvania. But when he enrolled in a master\u2019s program to study physics at Stanford, he quickly realized that the internet had far more potential to change the world.<\/p>He quit the program after just two days to start a new company called Zip2, <\/b>which provided maps and online city guides for news media websites.<\/p>Next, he co-founded an online payments site called X.com, which would later become PayPal.<\/b> It was only a matter of time before Musk would launch SpaceX, and then Tesla. \"He was completely unfazed. After a while, I don't think anyone gave him any direction, and he ended up making whatever he wanted.\"\n<\/p>6. He used to drink 96 ounces of Diet Coke per day, plus some coffee.<\/b><\/p>\nFor a period of his life, Musk reportedly drank eight cans of Diet Coke in addition to several cups of coffee each day. It was his means of staying awake and focused during 100-hour work weeks <\/b>during the process of building and launching his companies, he told Inc. in 2007.<\/p>\"I got so freaking jacked that I seriously started to feel like I was losing my peripheral vision,\" he said. \n <\/p>7. His companies almost went bankrupt <\/b><\/p>Although Musk\u2019s companies SpaceX and Tesla are now success stories, his road to prosperity had some serious financial bumps.\nIn 2008, his companies were running out of money and were hovering just a few days away from bankruptcy. <\/p>\nLuckily, a $1.6 billion contract from NASA came through at the last minute, saving Musk's empire.<\/b> He reportedly cried when he got the news about the contract.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1673189338476","data":"63bacc29afa41"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338477","data":" 8. He really wants to take people to Mars <\/b><\/p>\nElon Musk has declared that he will be the first private citizen to reach Mars\u2014and he means it. His spacecraft company's ultimate goal is to colonize Mars.<\/b><\/p>\nHe had intended to send mice or plants to Mars and was looking to purchase a rocket to launch them on. When existing rockets proved to be prohibitively expensive, he founded SpaceX to build his own. <\/b>According to NPR, Musk envisions a crewed space mission to Mars as early as 2029, with the long-term goal of establishing a permanent city on Mars<\/b>.<\/p>\nWhat's the deal with Mars? Musk claims that he wants to improve humanity's chances of survival in our universe, even if Earth does not survive\u2014presumably because of climate change. We will destroy our planet if we make bad decisions.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1673189338478","data":"63bacc78bb690"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338479","data":"9. He genuinely fears a Terminator-style attack. Skynet <\/b><\/p>\nRemember when the Terminator's computers took over the world?<\/p>Given his experience in the unstoppable tech sector and his proclivity for foresight, Musk believes that artificial intelligence, such as the Skynet AI system depicted in the film, poses a threat to humanity.<\/b> <\/p>\nWhat is his solution? Put computer chips in people's heads to protect them from an attack. Musk established the nonprofit OpenAI to research ways to keep robots<\/b> from annihilating humanity. Perhaps he knows something we don't.\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1673189338480","data":"63baccaae44ed"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1673189338481","data":"10. He has an idea for a \"fifth mode of transport.\"<\/b><\/p>\nCivilization has created planes, trains, automobiles, and boats, but Musk envisions the Hyperloop high-speed transit tube as a fifth mode. <\/b>He claims it is the fastest way to travel along the California coast. It would never crash, would be weatherproof, and would transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under 30 minutes.<\/b> It would be energy efficient, possibly self-powered with solar panels, and would cost far less than an airline ticket, Musk told PandoDaily Editor-in-Chief Sarah Lacy in a recorded interview.\n<\/p>"}]

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