The Chad Musk: >After South Africa, Musk found his way to Canada, where his mother recalls “having very little money … in a rent-controlled apartment in Toronto with Elon on the couch.” He eventually received a scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. Musk didn’t know what to do after graduating. He admits, “I actually wasn’t sure what I wanted to do growing up. I think at one point I thought inventing stuff or creating things would be a cool thing to do. But I wasn’t really sure if that meant starting a company or whether that meant working for a company that made cool stuff.”
>It all worked out. Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. That laid the groundwork for Paypal … which ultimately set the stage for SpaceX and Tesla. Now, Musk is involved (albeit in a smaller capacity) in many forward-looking companies like The Boring Company and Neuralink. In retrospect, things may have turned out differently. After all, he could’ve made a connection in Netscape’s lobby, landed a job, and found himself coding in a cubicle at a failed internet company.
The Jow Forums virgin: > land a job, and found himself coding in a cubicle at a failed internet company.
-Arrives in Canada with barely any money. -Gets a scholarship in the US.
Elon did not start with the same perks as everyone so there's no excuses to give. He's either a genius or had contacts worth more than money.
Jace Hernandez
>just be a boomer in the tech boom
Brandon Campbell
>being proud that you started with more than what 70% of the population have This nigga is retarded if he thinks that the average mutt simply has 2k stuffed in a bread can or something. The average middle class person las like 130 bucks.
Wyatt Peterson
>get born >get a good RNG seed
wow so easy. there are probably millions of people in the world smarter and better than Elon
Easton Reyes
his dad was a multimillionaire engineer/diamond mine owner and his mother was a famous model, he got taught things like programming from a very young age, also had family around canada who he worked for while in college, his dad loaned him the money for his first startup and he created it during the internet bubble, no clue why you're trying to pretend elon was just some random poor immigrant who "made things happen"
Evan Reed
the same apartment in toronto now goes for 15x the rate it did back then in terms of after tax wage ratio btw. thanks boomies.
Mason Howard
His parents were rich, though.
Adam Morales
I arrived in the US with 10 dollars. My parents then transferred me 10000 for my monthly allowance
Christian Thomas
>What's your excuse? The CIA didn't hire me to steal technology from NASA and Obama didn't look the other way when I did it.
Eli Morgan
Elon was a Dreamer, just like Bezos.
Kevin Turner
>just max out your luck bro
Aaron Diaz
Oh the cope
Lincoln Morris
Seethe
Elijah Ward
I was born in this country not immigrating into it so that means on top of having a cut cock I dont get special grants, loans and benefits.
Parker Murphy
if you were a boomer you wouldn't have needed it
Nicholas Cook
>just go back in time and cash in on the dotcom bubble, bro! Kill all boomers.
Carson Lee
True. I am not though.
So privileged indeed! Gods I love being a wh*te male
Benjamin Nelson
boomers are one of the rare generations in history that will have done better than both their parents and their children
Brayden Reed
>Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa,[20] the son of Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,[21] and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974).[25] His maternal grandfather, Dr. Joshua Haldeman, was an American-born Canadian.[26][27] His paternal grandmother was British, and he also has Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[28][29]
>What's your excuse? I'm a complete brainlet. You can't fix retarded.
John Moore
>family are all rich and smart doctors, engineers etc.
Truly a poor neet. One of us.
Angel Martin
He got none of his dad's fortune due to disagreements with him. Regardless of what his dad does, if Elon didn't get any, its as good as nothing.
Jose Phillips
I fucking wish I had my own cubicle. I'd bring in my own monitors and decorate it.
Kayden Allen
imagine boomers shitting up the world so hard that cubicle life seems like an unobtainable dream world
Eli Morris
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say he started when the competition wasn't so hostile and the economy hadn't gone to shit yet. That's my excuse.
Colton Parker
the dotcom bubble
Luis Fisher
This lol.
Elijah Edwards
he started at a time when being able to turn on a computer was considered to be a tech genius level task
Sebastian Sullivan
If I remember right, he stopped doing grad level physics few days/week to invest his resources/time into the dot com bubble. He cashed in with his Zip2 right around the time bubble was bloated, so he made the right decision given his situation.
Large situations like that come up every few years. Smaller situations like that come up every day or so. AMD for example was at a perfect time invest just few years ago, sitting at $3. Now its close to $30. Many of the silicon valley companies/startup are ripe investment and cashout within few years afterwards. Ofcourse unicorns are bit rare, so you'll have to work bit harder than unicorn makers. Musk has made like 3-4 unicorns, that is something very exceptional already.
Zachary Hernandez
>Musk has made like 3-4 unicorns, that is something very exceptional already. it's a lot easier when you have momentum, tons of connections, money, and autists willing to work for you
but you're right it is still exceptional, most startups fail even with a lot backing them
Nicholas Kelly
this
id just do my work in 2h and the rest 6h id just shitpost here
So right, where are the success stories of the other 50,000 people who arrived under similar conditions?
Joshua Jenkins
>got scholarship >lucked out >tons of money
WOW IMPRESSIVE
Lincoln Stewart
this is story is faker than your mom's boobs
Ryan Gonzalez
>He's either a genius or had contacts worth more than money. This, he had connections and good background and simply didn't waste them like such people often do.
Easton Lee
the most money i've ever had at once was about 1400$
Hunter Perry
Most people are repressed by the Judeo-Christian save morality and/or Protestant work ethic ideals. They're mentally incapable of selling lies to be a billionaire.
Or have we all forgotten that Paypal would regularly scam people when processing errors happened? Well, i guess a lot of people on this board are too young to know about things that happened in the 00's
Brayden Hill
>Judeo-Christian >jews killed jesus and rejected his teachings fuck off
Wyatt Flores
>save slave*
Logan Young
>based they probably didnt get off on the white foot
Justin Price
Found the autistic christcuck 8ch browser.
>I'm sticking it to the Jews by worshipping yahweh!
Adam Long
>we judeo-christian you're really dumb, even for a jew
