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From the Bullied Boy to the Flying Car: The Life of Elon Musk
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The true story of Elon Musk from 1971 to October 2026: a bullied boy in Pretoria, the year 2008 when SpaceX and Tesla almost died, rockets that land, Twitter, politics and a car that lifts off the ground. The wins, the failures and the price, told fairly.
Key takeaways
- At 12 he sold his first space game, Blastar, for about $500; space kept coming back in his life.
- In 2002 he put about $100 million of his own money into SpaceX; its first three Falcon 1 rockets failed, and the fourth reached orbit on 28 September 2008.
- In December 2008 a NASA contract worth about $1.6 billion and a last-minute Tesla funding round saved both companies.
- His success came with a price: a divorce, most of Twitter's staff cut, and bitter public fights.
- The boy on the stairs could not choose what happened to him that day, but he chose what he did next.
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Original from: Cypher original
Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk (2015)
Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk (2023)
Photo: Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0
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