15 Things You Didn't Know About Elon Musk

15 things you didn't know about elon musk [Music] welcome to alux.com the place where future billionaires come to get inspired hello alexers and welcome back to another amazing video we love talking about incredible entrepreneurs who change the world in their lifetime and today is an honor for us to cover elon musk the south african-born businessman engineer inventor real-life iron man and probably savior of the human race he has done an incredible amount in his 45 years he's the 83rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of 11.5 billion dollars that's rapidly growing and is the brains behind what are today some of the most exciting technology companies in the world we have to put this out there we'll be completely biased today and we don't really care as we are very big fans of his with that said here are 15 things you didn't know about our lord and savior elon musk number one he started out young coded his first game when he was 12 and sold it for 500 basically making him a prodigy the game was called blastar and he created it using commodore vic 20. a web version of the game is still available online so you can play it to this day much like bill gates he started coding when he was very young he'd been reading for five hours per day most of the days during his childhood and quickly assimilated knowledge one of the most memorable things he cured his own fear of the dark by studying basic physics he understood that darkness is the absence of photons in the visible wavelength and that it's silly to be scared of the lack of photons because he was pretty small and into science school was terrible for him as he was bullied every day so be careful who you bully in school they might turn out to be a future billionaire number two when musk was at college he fed himself for less than one dollar a day he might have come from a reasonably fortunate background but he lived on almost nothing while he was studying he said he used to prevent scurvy and illness by adding red pepper to his cheap ramen noodles something you guys might not know is that in order to make some money and pay for college he had a best friend turn their house into a nightclub they rented a 10-bedroom house and threw massive parties during the weekend sometimes up to 500 people would show up and you'd pay five dollars per person while his friend made sure the party was lit musk remained sober to maintain control of the party number three musk dropped out of his applied physics phd course after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial visions after completing two degrees in both physics and economics he enrolled on a phd course at stanford in 1995 when he was 24. after two days he got bored and started a business with his brother called zip2 he borrowed 28 000 from his father and funded a software company designed as a city guide for newspaper publishers that was before google maps in a day and age when yellow pages were still a thing not sure how many of you aluxers know what that is just a couple of years later he sold it for 22 million dollars number four he bought a mclaren f1 and didn't insure it and then wrote it off he bought it in 1999 when he was 28 years old for one million dollars it's probably quite difficult to get an insurance quote for a mclaren so he didn't bother and then he crashed it he even made fun of himself at that age but his passion for cars was clear he also owns the lotus israel from the 1977 bond film the spy who loved me he bought the car at auction in 2013 for nearly one million dollars and intends to convert it into a submarine for real as a pet project he loved the film as a child and was quote disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform into a submarine number five robert downey jr modeled his tony stark character on musk the eccentric genius billionaire playboy philanthropist tony stark in the marvel films was flatteringly based on elon according to downey jr and the franchise's director tony stark's character was just more or less a more flamboyant version of elon musk musk got a cameo in iron man 2 as a thank you for letting downey jr pick his brain number six musk was a co-founder and member of the paypal mafia after his zip to success it didn't take long for elon to pick his next target the banking industry so he started x.com x.com and paypal went head-to-head for a couple of years until they decided to join forces unfortunately though he was ousted from his ceo role in 2000 because of leadership disagreements when they sold paypal his cut was 165 million dollars but what is the paypal mafia you'd think that cashing in on paypal money would be enough but the people who created paypal all went on to create other companies of humongous success three of them went on and created youtube the website you're watching this on right now one of them created linkedin which was recently acquired by microsoft for 26 billion dollars another created yelp another founded kiva and a few others have become some of the most respected investors in silicon valley with very early investments in facebook twitter snapchat uber and more along these guys was elon who went ahead and is changing the world with tesla and spacex number seven he went through what we call it a lux a maksha moment where he was all in if you click on the top right corner you'll end up on an article showing something incredible many of the world changers went through maksha or the monk moment is more or less when someone puts everything he owns on the table and success is the only option for survival after the sale of paypal with all of his savings he had 180 million dollars he put 100 million in spacex 70 million in tesla and 10 million in solar city at that point he had to borrow money to pay rent number eight like elizabeth taylor he married someone divorced them and then remarried them again musk married british actress tallulah riley in 2008 and they announced their separation in 2012. it all seemed quite amicable and then they remarried in 2013 and filed for divorce again in 2014. their divorce was finalized in 2016 and hopefully they won't do it again it's clearly not working elon is sacrificing his family life for his goals and ambitions and at alex we can even compare him to a modern-day henry ford or even to the original tesla number nine his basic tesla salary is just one dollar a year few people know that he wasn't a founder at tesla he discovered the company and bought himself in after arguing with the ceo he fired him and installed himself a few weeks ago we ranked the most expensive electric cars in the world and tesla has two of them in the top 10. you might want to check it out but we're most excited on finally getting our hands on the model 3. deliveries can't start soon enough for us number 10 musk has said that he wants to die on mars not earth musk's spacex is planning an ambitious mission to mars with a view to making our lives interplanetary he is spearheading a movement to colonize the planet mars his main goal is to drop the cost of interplanetary travel to close to one hundred thousand dollars the current price is at around 10 billion dollars so there's a long way to go but he's serious about it he wants to put people on mars in six years from now before that he'll be sending several rockets filled with resources in order to get the colonization process started mars has already proven to be our best option and elon even came up with a few theories on how to terraform mars one would be to nuke the north and south pole of mars in order to heat up the planet and begin creating an atmosphere his personal goal is to send 1 million people to mars in order to make sure our species gets a better shot at survival number 11. musk thinks that a.i is the most serious threat to survival of the human race and believes the world is coming after a.i in the wrong way it's easy to assume that a tech entrepreneur would be head over heels in love with the idea of artificial intelligence but musk is apparently not one of them confusingly however he's invested in various ai firms and even founded a non-profit ai research company he believes that creating a neural network which basically means we all connect our brains to the internet is the way to go that way we can democratize the artificial intelligence and if we're all a part of it it cannot kill us he's compared traditional ai to summoning a demon number 12 he's building the second largest building in the world from a footprint point of view it's called the gigafactory because he's serious about shifting the world from fossil fuels to sustainable energy he'll be needing a lot of batteries more than the rest of the world combined could produce so he built his own factory this place is massive when completed and running at full capacity it will be able to create more batteries in one year than the entire world ever created to put things into perspective if there were 99 more gigafactories the entire planet would be completely sustainable from an energy standpoint number 13 you can go completely off grid from an energy point of view because of him a few months ago he unveiled a new type of solar panel these look like traditional roof tiles but have the capacity to capture sunlight add that to the tesla power all an advanced battery that could power an entire house and a tesla car and you don't need to be on the grid anymore the best thing is that the price for buying the model 3 is cheaper than buying a petrol car and paying for petrol for one year the price of the magical rooftop that captures solar energy will be lower than that of a normal roof that's insane oh you want more if you buy a tesla car you will get free energy for life from his super charging stations that he's building all over the world number 14 he's had three official nationalities musk was born in south africa but left for canada when he was 19 and became a citizen he then became an american citizen in 2002 and has described himself as passionately patriotic about his adopted country number 15 he's donated money to both republican and democrat presidential candidates musk has described himself as between republican and democrat so he's fittingly donated to both parties there are some noticeable discrepancies in terms of amount though he contributed 100 000 to obama's re-election campaign and just 2 000 to george w bush's in a recent statement he said tesla's future is not threatened by the trump presidency despite trump saying he does not believe in climate change in an interesting turn of events peter theo member of paypal mafia and friend of elon's is currently in trump's cabinet helping trump with the transition we know this is where we normally should end the video but what the hell let's keep going number 16 he wants to bring the entire world online just a few days before doing research for this video elon musk asked the government to allow him to put 4425 satellites in earth's orbit so he can provide free internet for the entire world this is an incredible project that would generate him enough money to create the first city on mars the internet problem is something both facebook and google are trying to solve facebook with solar drone-like planes and google via helium balloons out of the three of them elon has the best shot at getting this done because he already has the infrastructure in place people like elon don't come around that often that's why we look up to him as much as we do we really hope that he succeeds and who knows maybe just maybe in this lifetime we'll do a live video stream from mars with everything you've learned about him and what he does we wanted to ask you would you go to mars if you had the option we're really curious to find out and as always we'll be in the comments you know we don't do this often but today we'll make an exception our friend tim urban from waitbutwy.com spent some time with elon and his engineers in order to give a complete analysis of what makes him such an incredible human being we'll link to that post in the description we strongly recommend you read it if you're digging what elon is doing thank you for spending some time with us a luxer make sure to subscribe so you never miss a video if you want more we hand-picked these videos you might enjoy or head over to alox.com for the best in fine living content on the planet be a part of the largest community of luxury enthusiasts in the world and tell your story

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Length: 15min 41sec (941 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 05 2017