Recently, according to the Sound of economic "world Company" reported that the Earth people know Marx, but Musk may not be known. At least he's not as famous as Zuckerberg. But it seems to me that Musk's value in the tech industry is much more than Zuckerberg, and even more than Steve Jobs, and I've even asserted that if nothing happens, Jobs's successor must be Matt.
A few days ago, Musk on Twitter announced that the design of the super circuit will be officially announced, in his eyes, the super circuit is the car, ship, train, aircraft after the fifth mode of transport. According to the design, the future of the Super circuit from San Francisco to Los Angeles will take only half an hour, San Francisco is a good 960 kilometers away from Los Angeles, driving 8 hours, the plane also 1.5 hours.
If Musk is a nobody, the super circuit must be treated as a joke, but he had already done three great things before that.
In 1999, 27-Year-old Maersk sold a software developed by himself, earning 22 million of dollars, and then immediately he used the money to start an online payment system, which later turned into the world's largest online payment system--paypal. 2002, the world's largest E-commerce platform for international trade in the 1.5 billion U.S. dollars to buy PayPay, as a founding shareholder, Musk got 160 million dollars.
Leaving PayPay, Musk immediately took the 160 million-dollar launch of the SpaceX, the company's ultimate goal is to open up Mars, providing affordable and safe space travel, when most people think Musk crazy. But August 18, 2006, SpaceX won the first U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration business contract. On December 23, 2008, SpaceX also received a 1.6 billion dollar commercial replenishment contract from NASA, with the main task of replenishing the International Space Station. The current SpaceX value of more than 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, is expected by the end of this year, once the successful completion of the expected air transport contract, the company market value will reach 2.4 billion U.S. dollars.
In 2004, he invested heavily in Tesla, believing that electric cars and solar energy would help people get rid of the imminent threat of oil depletion and win time to curb global warming, a company that makes electric cars and the world's first company to use lithium-ion batteries as a vehicle. In the 2008 days of October, Tesla's first batch of electric cars was produced, and the first client list was filled with Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Google's two founders. Tesla's client list is almost a global network of wealth, according to earnings, the first quarter of 2013, Tesla's marketing revenue reached 555 million U.S. dollars, the year-on-year growth of 27 times times. At present, Tesla's super charging station can be full of electricity for its electric vehicle within one hours, but mast thinks one hours is too long, his ideal charge time should be 5-10 minutes, this idea again brought him "crazy" name.
Musk was born in South Africa, he was very smart when he was a child, he read a lot of science fiction in his childhood, his hero has always been the role of saving the world, such as Superman and Batman, in fact, the American blockbuster "Iron Man" is the prototype is Musk, but even so, Musk did not stop. In my opinion, the most valuable thing about Musk is not the accumulation of personal wealth, but the constant creation, to change the world, in order to make the world a better place, on this basis, Musk is worthy of all the scientific and technological entrepreneurs in China to study well.