Name: エロン・ムスクはどのようにして彼の敗北者を打ち負かしたのか (How Elon Musk Defied His Detractors)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:14:00.000Z
Duration: 8 min 29 s
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Now, we know that you're only watching this video because

Elon Musk was in the title, but we're not alone here.

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The Internet is saturated with Elon Musk, his name and likeness

Here's a meme asking the Internet to stop with all the Elon Musk memes.

So what is it about Elon Musk that seems to have captivated the entire Internet?

We decided to ask Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance,

next big figure people were going to latch onto

Building rockets, electric cars, nobody else does things like this.

"He's a force in society that's like a cross pollination of Thomas Edison and Tony Stark."

He is probably the biggest risk taker on the planet.

Every single time one of his companies does well

he seems to just go all in again and take another,

even bigger risk. And he seems to enjoy living

Elon, ultimately, is this huge brand. Even more so than his companies.

Musk got his business and physics degree from UPenn,

and he pursued a Ph.D. program at Stanford for a short time

but changed course to pursue business opportunities

His first big payday came from a company they launched

Zip2 began as a sort of online Yellow Pages,

offering local businesses a way to launch

But it quickly went national, as a way for newspapers

to harness the power of the burgeoning Internet.

After securing partnerships with 160 publications

across the country, Compaq Computer took an interest

in incorporating Zip2 software into their AltaVista

search engine, and acquired them for $370 million in 1999.

Musk then spent about half of his new fortune

to create one of the world's first online banking systems called X.com.

X.com quickly merged with a competing financial software

company founded by none other than Peter Thiel called Confinity.

Confinity eventually morphed into PayPal, with Musk,

PayPal was sort of a disaster for Elon, he ran the company

Co-founders Peter Thiel, David Sacks met one night while

and threw him out of the company more or less.

But Elon remained a majority shareholder,

which was ideal when PayPal was bought out by eBay

Elon personally made around $170 million from that.

Now, if most people were to receive that kind of money at the age of 31,

Listen to the ocean breeze for the rest of your life,

He ends up putting about 100 million in the SpaceX

You're more or less just literally lighting your money on fire.

Both SpaceX and Tesla remained notorious money pits for over a decade.

"This is what financial armageddon looks like."

In 2008, the whole economy is tanking while

he's trying to raise money for these companies

that he's blown through his whole fortune.

"Tesla stock voted by Wall Street as the least likely to succeed."

At the same time, he's just had a divorce.

It was the darkest time in his life, without question.

Musk kept his sights high, played the long game,

It's one of the great, sort of, escape acts in business history

is that he actually manages to keep both companies alive,

and to get the Tesla Roadster out the door.

which is valued at $33 billion and has become the

number one private space exploration company in the world.

Tesla's profitability has remained spotty over the years,

but in 2019 they posted a quarterly profit of $143 million.

"A few years ago, people were laughing at you.

Today, Elon Musk's total net worth is at around $23.6 billion.

Musk has launched multiple future facing side projects

like The Boring Company, OpenAI, and Neural Link,

all of which are inspired by a passion for making

But ultimately, Elon has his sights set on redder pastures.