The guy who is saving the world.

hi I'm Dave from boyinaband sometimes you come across people who completely change your perception of what the human being is capable of today I'm going to show you one of those people someone who was basically a real-life Iron Man but less of a Duchenne with slightly fewer glowing blue fusion reactors embedded in his chest or at least he hides it well I'll set the scene of my discovery after committing to the imminent destruction of my dear sleeping pattern I was perusing through the internet until I happened upon an article about Tesla a company developing electric cars now I know less about cars than I do about spotting continuity errors but this article mentioned the owner of Tesla had just been asked if you would pay for a Museum of the company's namesake Nikola Tesla an inventor who is as badass as he is dead the owner of the company gave him million dollars to fund the museum and I thought that's a lot of money for a random Internet publicity stunt this guy seems freakin cool what another cool stuff he's done oh wow his company is forced all the massive car manufacturing companies towards practical electric vehicles have a way the power plants will still have to burn those fossil fuels in the first place Wow is chairman of another company that's put more solar panels on people's houses than any other way what if it's already too late to curb climate change and the planet is doomed oh wow he's made another company that is single-handedly pushing humanity towards colonizing Mars to avoid the accidental extinction of the human race so who is this superhero that's saving us from the brink of collapse there was a genius billionaire in that picture but it wasn't Robert Downey jr. dude chilling with Tony Stark was Elon Musk who Robert Downey jr. actually based the character of Iron Man on by analyzing eelain's mannerisms talking to him and adding a healthy scoop of douche so it's fine to say scoop of do scoop of new scoop so I was like holy crap this guy is literally fixing the world how did I not know about him is he famous okay whew he's got over a million Twitter followers that seems like a lot right oh okay Nikki I guess you do sing some pretty catchy oh okay Kim I guess you do have a pretty good-looking ho okay Beauty do have some pretty funny videos and make it incredibly satisfying way of pronouncing the word haters oh okay people you do shout your name very effectively on a lot of songs but I think it would be more beneficial if people were aware of the fate of the planet rather than your favorite number three or five nah what do you see what the value was darling how is this possible how does someone freaking come out of nowhere and found three world-changing companies well they weren't his first world changing companies and he didn't actually come out of nowhere and the South Africa is nowhere to you in which case you're a silly-billy right here it's really silly Billy and in terms of business - he didn't just pop into existence with multi millions of dollars he started pretty early when he was 12 he taught himself to program programmed a game and sold it for $500 know what I was doing at age 12 getting told by my school that long hair was for girls and I had to cut it or get suspended well screw you mrs. Jetta who's laughing now he was 17 he moved to Canada and after casually getting two degrees moved to America and started a company with his brother to make the Internet's first yellow pages and bear in mind at this point the majority of people thought the internet was a fad like Tamagotchi or five nights at freddys or caring about debilitating diseases they didn't actually have enough money for a dedicated computer to host the website on so Elon became nocturnal and coded it at night then use the same computer to host it during the day the concept just makes me laugh so much like imagine if Facebook was suddenly like oh sorry guys it's nighttime now and I've got to fix the messaging system see you in 12 hours sucky but the work paid off in January 96 they got three million dollars in funding to grow the company just gonna stop there for a sec that's quite a jump for less than a year you can't change the world on a measly three million dollars fortunately that amount paled into comparison when the company was sold three years later for 307 million dollars the most money ever paid for an Internet company at the time and Elon got 22 million of that instead of buying an island and carving his own face into it the semia he started a company XCOM which as we all know is the most awesome letter of the alphabet it's so goddamn futuristic on the good XCOM was an Internet payments company but they were against some pretty big competition so they ended up merging with another company with a product called was it oh yeah PayPal he wasn't just some random manager not only was he the CEO that ran things he was a guy who figured out how to make people use PayPal think about it how would you get millions of people to trust this random website they'd never heard of well he started by offering $20 to everyone that made an account in $20 for every friend they referred this one interview and he was talking about this maybe laughs where he was like I think was probably 60 or 70 million dollars okay so we're not talking peanuts here yeah this is yeah it depends on your relatives game yeah / freaking team but things weren't easy for him during this time there are a lot of disagreements with how PayPal should be run because people who make successful companies tend to be pretty opinionated and driven like imagine if Nicki Minaj Kim Kardashian and PewDiePie had to get together and make a group and agree on a direction actually that's a really bad analogy because they very quickly conclude huge amounts of twerking and become more successful than anything in history so after he ran the company is the CEO for like a year he went on this two-week road trip to meet some possible investors and when he got back the rest of the people on the board of the company fired him so that was pretty crap things went all bad for him because he kept his share of the company even though he was fired you might know that in 2002 PayPal was bought by eBay you might not remember that it was for 1.5 billion dollars his share of that got him 165 million instead of buying several islands and carving his entire Anatomy into them hit oh wait he did buy an island at this point that's when he created his company hang on SpaceX I thought Google X was a freaking cool name but SpaceX that's literally like my eight-year-old self was asked what is the absolute coolest name possible for a company SpaceX what do they do going to space how is that financially feasible space this is where old Li Delin is a slightly better rocket engineering CEO than my eight-year-old self he funded SpaceX with a hundred million dollars of his own money because funnily enough most people didn't think pouring money into a space company was a sound investment I guess they thought the company fronted by someone with no prior practical rocket science experience couldn't be more efficient than NASA idiots well he had a degree in physics but anyone that's taken a degree knows exactly how prepared it makes you for the real world so how did he learn enough about rocket science he taught himself he read a lot of books talk to some rocket scientists and watch some YouTube tutorials or something and after calculating that he thought he could do things better than NASA founded SpaceX with just enough money for three attempts at launching a working rocket guess which attempt the rocket launched on that's right the fourth we're going to come back to that in a sec because one world-changing company wasn't enough this is where he made Tesla Motors in 2003 with 20 million dollars you know just leftover cash because as he explained it climate change needs to be dealt with and the biggest consumption of that is cars he did it because it was important so we just has really challenged the entire car industry like yeah I know you're a multi-billion dollar industry but I think I can do better and then he did better Tesla made the first production line electric car that went over 200 miles on one charge and also didn't make the car look stupid meaning it was the first practical and cool electric car by the way when I was trying to find a way to prove to you with data that people weren't a fan of the style of electric cars I typed in electric cars look into Google and yes that is actually the top result there's all kinds of stories about the big car companies getting the government to try to restrict Tesla in all kinds of ways but basically they failed Tesla won a trap dance around 2008 though you might remember the financial crisis happened which was not a good year if you happen to own multiple cutting-edge technology companies Tesla was about to go under so Elon injected the rest of his money into it and I mean all of it yet to borrow from his friends in order to support his family at that point no matter how rich you are it's freaking scary to put everything you own into something and again to clarify he wasn't doing this to make the most money it's not like he sat down and after careful consideration mused hmm yes space is where the money is he'd have gone to like the financial sector or real estate or something for that he was doing it because it was important to progress humanity so he sank all of his money into Tesla all three rocket launches failed and he had a freaking divorce in the same year but at the end of that yeah three two one zero or it's terrible flawed we have liftoff yay on the third launch he said he knew why it failed fixed it and successfully launched soon after with the last dregs of funds the company had this single human being had organized and helped design what most governments are not capable of doing and the American government noticed NASA gave SpaceX a 1.6 billion dollar contract to fly staff to the International Space Station so to my eight-year-old self that is how a space travel company can be financially feasible now there is a fun game it defined a generation soon after the skyrocketing success hahahahaha of SpaceX elands other company Tesla began to pay off its model s car was released and out of a possible 5 star safety rating it got 5.4 stars potentially because there wasn't an explosion happening in front of the driver at all times they started selling shares and made two billion dollars and all the other car companies started making electric cars because they realize fully crap we can't be lazy anymore stupid Elon Musk with your space rockets and your occasional relatable tweets seriously as twitter makes me laugh so much like who else can credibly get away with saying by the way we're actually working on a charger that automatically moves out from the wall and connects like a solid metal snake for reals for reals what freaking billionaire uses superfluous heads probably dr. Dre I guess the kind of billionaire that when choosing the vehicle names to trademark for his car company chooses the models s3x and why because and I quote there's not much humor in copyright law brilliant his sense of humor is so deadpan when we got me particularly strongly was in an interview when he was asked about his plan to build rockets that fly to Mars do you want to be on that flight I'd like to go to Mars absolutely I think it'd be great to be born on earth and die on Mars just hopefully at the point of impact amazing and he's one of the only people in the world that could pull that one off because he's joking but simultaneously he's going to Mars but what does he do when he isn't working surely his brain can't be on all the time he actually has time to play video games occasionally including Kerbal space program which made me laugh but more often he invents new things like one weekend after hearing California's government was about to have the dubious honor of building the world's most expensive and slowest a bullet train he got annoyed so we met with a few friends had a few coffees and developed a design documentation for an entirely new method of transport cheaper than trains than planes that works like an air hockey table called prepare your inner eight-year-old self the Hyperloop he just made it then put the document out on the internet for free because he didn't have the time to do it you know multiple world changing companies already gotta bet on apply' and three other ideas he suggested potentially working on worth one an electric play in which because of the lack of oxygen required because there's no jet engines it can fly way higher meaning less air resistance meaning getting from London to Shanghai in seven and a half hours to a way to add a double-decker element to roads to reduce traffic in rush-hour please make this one and third he actually said in an interview well one of the third one would be I think you could make Fusion work and you know just casually and I believed him so his companies have continued to go from strength to strength which brings us to now a Oh day how would you work eight point three billion dollars they keep in mind that point three is enough to buy multiple islands and unlike many other billionaires like the Walmart family for instance who have a tendency to sociopathically keep it all to themselves despite having literally enough money to cure world hunger I have the stats to back that up Elon is invested in making businesses that will save the world he realizes that people who deny climate change of the world ending threat are idiots and instead of getting involved in that kind of debate found a way to make it financially beneficial for the world to work towards not destroying the planet I just can't believe that Elon is not more people's hero but all this said the coolest thing is not the achievements he's done but why he does them he didn't go into these businesses purely for profit he sat down and thought logically about what the world needed the most then found a way to make it work he cares about people in a way that so few people with his ability do and he's smart enough to make an impact bigger than governments because he's not afraid to choose a direction that could fail against everyone's conventional advice and work a hundred hours a week to prove them wrong Elon Musk is probably the guy I respect the most in the world people tend to find it a lot easier to have that level of respect for dead people like Nikola Tesla Ellen's company's namesake but I keep thinking imagine what this guy could do if enough people were aware of his intentions and achievements and gave him that level of respect while he was still alive so even though he isn't as well famous as some rappers or TV stars that's the kind of person with the kind of mindset I think more people should know about and if you're interested in Ellen's achievements you'll probably also be interested in what Google have been doing with their secret research facility Google X and you can check that video out here or linked in the description like oh and Ilan please be a rapper you have the perfect came from nothing now I'm something story you fricking could film your video with a rocket taking off the background from your own Island and all the best rappers are from South Africa it would just be amazing I'll make you the song please please please tweet me

Channel: Boyinaband

Views: 1,787,089

Rating: 4.8907514 out of 5

Keywords: elon musk, iron man, space x, spacex, tesla, tesla motors, paypal, pay pal, google x, what the frick, elon, musk, business, bloomberg, pandodaily, interview, chat, fireside chat, nikola tesla, museum, saving the world, documentary, ice bucket

Id: WaAJAwi3Q1U

Length: 13min 2sec (782 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 21 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/SgtSanchez]

Not gonna lie, thought that was a woman in the thumbnail... voice took me by surprise immediately

[u/arsonall]

To add to what boyinaband guy forgot. Elon also gave away the tesla motor plans away for free.

He wants all the motor car companies to use it, he doesn't want them to compete, just move away from gas-driven cars.

[u/meplusplus]

Elon did an AMA a few weeks ago, if you are interested here it is: Elon Musk AMA

[u/DumdeDumdumdumb]

I hated this guys video less than I thought I was going to hate it.

[u/tmbgisrealcool]

fucking quick cuts....

[u/dannijai7]

I could not quite make out was Elon said after being born on Earth and dying on Mars.

[u/soupi77]

this is the video I have always wanted to share with people.

[u/sciamatic]

This is a really cute and funny video. Even knowing who Elon Musk is, it was really enjoyable to watch.

[u/MattJRice]

Turns out I went to University with this guy....He should stick to Youtube, our University sucked.