Written by: Manip Maharjan - 1178022, Grade XI
Posted on: 08 July, 2021
If you are not living under a rock you probably know Elon Musk and his feat. Elon Musk is a tech entrepreneur and one of the founders and investors of big-name companies such as Tesla which is named after Nikola Tesla and SpaceX. He also has multiple companies under his belts such as the Boring company, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
Elon musk is a pretty eccentric fellow whose bold and risk-taking demeanor has made him international fame and wealth. Elon was born in the country of South Africa to a South African father and Canadian mother and moved to Canada at the age of 17 to not indulge in compulsory military service to a systematically racist military to caucasian like Musk. Though he had a rocky start it didn't stop him from making his first company Zip2 which provided people city guides and other useful commodities alongside his brother, later was sold for a whopping 307 million dollars and other tech start-ups such as X.Com which merged itself to PayPal and was sold to eBay for 1.5 billion dollars.
Why has Elon Musk gained so much traction?
The reason Elon Musk has gained a lot of traction is his presence in social media and his good side of humor and his frequent posts about memes and other things such as podcasts which appeal to a huge number of people. Elon Musk is also known for his creative yet thought-provoking names such as naming his company “the boring company” and naming his flamethrower “not a flamethrower “ and smoking weed in a podcast. You can say Musk is kind of a walking talking billboard but he is something more than that, his extreme level of work ethic of putting out 120 hours per week and his tendency to not take any breaks has made him billions of dollars.
His ambition for his two most prominent companies is to make space travel more accessible and to make electric cars cheaper and cooler. His ambition for SpaceX and Tesla are going pretty good per se with SpaceX’s reusable rockets which have earned him multi-billion dollars of contracts with NASA and other investors and unlike most companies. Elon Musk’s company Tesla does not even have to spend a dime in advertisement and the product does the advertise for itself by a huge content creator making a ton of videos of them and numerous media outlets making news coverage about the upcoming product. Elon Musk’s aspiration to make human beings extraterrestrial species and says that the human species are in imminent threat which is emphasizing on building homes for humans beyond this world is pretty self-sufficient.
In conclusion,with enough aspiration and a mind which is willing to yearn for as much information as it can, anyone no matter their background or heritage, can be as successful and affluential as Musk.
