Elon Musk since birth the stages of his history the success he achieved and the trust he gained from 1

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00:00elon musk a businessman's biography a long journey of struggle hard work and success from his birth

00:13through his education to his professional business and cultural experiences with all

00:19this and more you will have a wonderful time with this distinguished personality

00:24part one elon reeve musk frs born june 28 1971 is a businessman known for his leadership of tesla

00:36spacex x formerly twitter and the department of government efficiency doge musk has been the

00:43wealthiest person in the world since 2021 as of may 2025 forbes estimates his net worth to be 424.7

00:51billion united states dollars born to a wealthy family in pretoria south africa musk emigrated in

00:571989 to canada he received bachelor's degrees from the university of pennsylvania in 1997 before moving

01:04to california united states to pursue business ventures in 1995 musk co-founded the software

01:11company zip2 following its sale in 1999 he co-founded x.com an online payment company that later merged

01:20to form paypal which was acquired by ebay in 2002 that year musk also became an american citizen

01:28in 2002 musk founded the space technology company spacex becoming its ceo and chief engineer the company

01:36has since led innovations in reusable rockets and commercial spaceflight musk joined the automaker tesla

01:43as an early investor in 2004 and became its ceo and product architect in 2008 it has since become

01:50a leader in electric vehicles in 2015 he co-founded open ai to advance artificial intelligence ai research

01:57but later left growing discontent with the organization's direction and their leadership

02:02in the ai boom in the 2020s led him to establish xai in 2022 he acquired the social network twitter

02:10implementing significant changes and rebranding it as x in 2023 his other businesses include the

02:17neurotechnology company neurolink which he co-founded in 2016 and the tunneling company the boring

02:23company which he founded in 2017 musk was the largest donor in the 2024 u.s presidential election

02:29and as a supporter of global far-right figures causes and political parties in early 2025 he served

02:36as senior advisor to united states president donald trump and as the de facto head of doge after a public

02:42feud with trump musk left the trump administration and announced he was creating his own political

02:47party the america party musk's political activities views and statements have made him a polarizing

02:53figure especially following the covet 19 pandemic he has been criticized for making unscientific and

02:59misleading statements including covet 19 misinformation and promoting conspiracy theories

03:04and affirming anti-semitic racist and transphobic comments his acquisition of twitter was

03:09controversial due to a subsequent increase in hate speech and the spread of misinformation on the

03:14service his role in the second trump administration attracted public backlash particularly in response

03:20to doge elon reeve musk was born on june 28 1971 in pretoria south africa's administrative capital

03:28he is of british and pennsylvania dutch ancestry his mother may nay haldeman is a model and dietitian

03:35born in saskatchewan canada and raised in south africa his father errol musk is a south african

03:42electromechanical engineer pilot sailor consultant emerald dealer and property developer who partly

03:49owned a rental lodge at timbovati private nature reserve his maternal grandfather joshua n haldeman who

03:56died in a plane crash when elon was a toddler was an american-born canadian chiropractor aviator and

04:02political activist in the technocracy movement who moved to south africa in 1950 haldeman's anti-government

04:09anti-democratic and conspiracist views which included the promotion of far-right anti-semitic conspiracy

04:16theories fanatical support of apartheid and according to errol musk support of nazism have been suggested

04:22as an influence on elon during his childhood elon was told stories by his grandmother of haldeman's

04:28travels and exploits and elon has suggested that all of haldeman's descendants have his desire for

04:34adventure exploration doing crazy things elon has a younger brother kimball a younger sister tosca and

04:41four paternal half siblings musk was raised in the anglican church in which he was baptized musk family

04:48was wealthy during elon's youth despite both elon and errol previously stating that errol was a part

04:53owner of a zambian emerald mine in 2023 errol recounted that the deal he made was to receive

04:59a portion of the emeralds produced at three small mines errol was elected to the pretoria city council

05:06as a representative of the anti-apartheid progressive party and has said that his children shared their

05:11father's dislike of apartheid after his parents divorced in 1979 elon aged around nine chose to

05:20live with his father because he had an encyclopedia britannica and a computer elon later regretted his

05:26decision and became estranged from his father elon has recounted trips to a wilderness school that he

05:32described as a paramilitary lord of the flies where bullying was a virtue and children were encouraged to

05:38fight over rations in one incident after an altercation with a fellow pupil elon was thrown down concrete

05:45steps and beaten severely leading to him being hospitalized for his injuries elon described

05:51his father berating him after he was discharged from the hospital errol denied berating elon and

05:57claimed the boy had just lost his father to suicide and elon had called him stupid elon had a tendency

06:03to call people stupid how could i possibly blame that child elon was an enthusiastic reader of books

06:11and had attributed his success in part to having read the lord of the rings the foundation series

06:17and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy at age 10 he developed an interest in computing and video

06:23games teaching himself how to program from the vic 20 user manual at age 12 elon sold his basic

06:30based game blastar to pc and office technology magazine for approximately 500 musk attended waterkloof

06:38house preparatory school bryanston high school and then pretoria boys high school where he graduated

06:44musk was a good but unexceptional student earning a 61 in afrikaans and a b on his senior math

06:51certification musk applied for a canadian passport through his canadian-born mother to avoid south

06:56africa's mandatory military service which would have forced him to participate in the apartheid regime

07:02as well as to ease his path to immigration to the united states while waiting for his application to be

07:07processed he attended the university of pretoria for five months musk arrived in canada in june 1989

07:14connected with a second cousin in saskatchewan and worked odd jobs including at a farm and a lumber

07:19mill in 1990 he entered queen's university in kingston ontario two years later he transferred to the

07:27university of pennsylvania where he studied until 1995. although musk has said that he earned his degrees in

07:341995 the university of pennsylvania did not award them until 1997 a bachelor of arts in physics and a

07:42bachelor of science in economics from the university's wharton school he reportedly hosted large ticketed

07:49house parties to help pay for tuition and wrote a business plan for an electronic book scanning service

07:55similar to google books in 1994 musk held two internships in silicon valley one at energy storage

08:02startup pinnacle research institute which investigated electrolytic supercapacitors for energy storage

08:09and another at palo alto based startup rocket science games in 1995 he was accepted to a graduate

08:16program in materials science at stanford university but did not enroll musk decided to join the internet

08:22boom applying for a job at netscape to which he reportedly never received a response the washington

08:28post reported that musk lacked legal authorization to remain and work in the united states after

08:33failing to enroll at stanford in response musk said he was allowed to work at that time and that his

08:38student visa transitioned to an h-1b according to numerous former business associates and shareholders

08:45musk said he was on a student visa at the time in 1995 musk his brother kimball and greg curry founded

08:53web software company zip2 with funds borrowed from musk's father they housed the venture at a small

08:59rented office in palo alto the company developed and marketed an internet city guide for the newspaper

09:05publishing industry with maps directions and yellow pages according to musk the website was up during the

09:12day and i was coding it at night seven days a week all the time the musk brothers obtained contracts with the

09:18new york times and the chicago tribune and persuaded the board of directors to abandon plans for a

09:24merger with city search musk's attempts to become ceo were thwarted by the board compact acquired zip2

09:30for 307 million dollars in cash in february 1999 and musk received 22 million dollars for his seven percent

09:38share in 1999 musk co-founded x.com an online financial services and email payment company the startup

09:46was one of the first federally insured online banks and in its initial months of operation over 200

09:53000 customers joined the service the company's investors regarded musk as inexperienced and

09:59replaced him with intuit ceo bill harris by the end of the year the following year x.com merged with

10:05online bank confinity to avoid competition founded by max levchin and peter thiel confinity had its own

10:12money transfer service paypal which was more popular than x.com service within the merged company

10:19musk returned as ceo musk's preference for microsoft software over unix created a rift in the company and

10:26caused thiel to resign due to resulting technological issues and lack of a cohesive business model the board

10:33ousted musk and replaced him with teal in 2000 under teal the company focused on the paypal service and was

10:40renamed paypal in 2001. in 2002 paypal was acquired by ebay for 1.5 billion dollars in stock of which musk

10:49the largest shareholder with 11.72 percent of shares received 175.8 million dollars in 2017 musk

10:58purchased the domain x.com from paypal for an undisclosed amount stating that it had sentimental

11:04value in 2001 musk became involved with the non-profit mars society and discussed funding

11:10plans to place a growth chamber for plants on mars i stop at this point today until next time stay

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