Fun facts you didn't know about Elon Musk

Believe me, no one is a billionaire by chance, see surprising facts about Musk

I think it's very difficult that you've never heard of Elon Musk, right? He's the guy behind companies like Tela, Spacex and Solarcity, among others, but did you know, for example, that he's South African? Well, actually, Elon Musk's life has a lot of curious things, you know, so come check out some things you might not know about the technology billionaire who makes reusable rockets and sends cars into space.

• In 1984, when he was just 12 years old, and still living in South Africa, Elon Musk programmed alone a video game called Blaster, at the time he sold the game code for 500 dollars to a magazine called pc 9 technology, if you are curious and want to play blaster, then know that it is available on the internet.
• Before having assets valued at 19.6 billion dollars, Musk lived on one dollar a day, well this happened when he was trying to start his first company after leaving South Africa, and according to the billionaire himself, the goal it was not to die of hunger and also to see if he had the necessary determination to be an entrepreneur, well he managed to learn that he didn't need a super salary to survive at that time. His diet was basically based on hot dogs, oranges and pasta with tomato sauce.
• In 1999 Musk founded X.com, an online financial services and email payment company, a year later the company merged with Confidant and gave rise to the famous Paypal, of course Musk is not alone responsible for the success of PayPal. right, so much so that the executives involved in the project became known as the Paypal mafia, and since the founding of the company, six of its members, including Musk, have become billionaires, in 2002 e-Bay bought Paypal for 1.5 billion, and Musk received 180 million for his share of the company.
• Still in 1999, a little after having sold his startup called Zeptil for around 300 million dollars but decided to buy a McLaren F1, the model was super exclusive, only 64 units of the car were produced, the detail is that he destroyed a car in an accident, at the time he was with the co-founder of paypal in the passenger seat and Musk who admitted that he perhaps didn't know very well how to drive a Mclaren, and detail, he didn't have insurance.
• in fact, Musk's relationship with these cars also involves the purchase of spirit motorcycles, the submarine car in the 1977 James Bond film and he paid almost a million dollars for it.
• Actor Robert Downey Junior was also inspired by Elon Musk to bring the character of Tony Stark to life, he even did a shift at Space-x guided by Musk himself, the two spent time together and the actor learned the accessible eccentricities of Musk, after personally meeting the man behind Space-x and Tesla when he returned to Iron Man's production territory, he asked the director to place a Tesla roadster in the Workshop of Tony Stark, the real-life billionaire until He made an appearance in the Iron Man 2 movie, in fact he likes to appear a little, since he also made an appearance in the series The Big Bang Theory.
• The guy is really intelligent, you know, you learned what you know about rockets from him? reading books on the subject, well that's right he taught himself, and helped develop some of Space-x's most innovative projects, in addition when he was just ten years old, he learned to program alone, at the age of four he already He read and that's why he was able to start school early.
• The problem with having started school early is that he was the smallest in the class, you know, adding that to the fact that he was very studious, the result was good bullying, there is a story that he went to the hospital when he was 13 years old, after a group of boys threw Musk down the stairs at school, and then beat the boy until he lost consciousness.
• When he was studying at the University of Pennsylvania, Musk and a friend rented a ten-bedroom dorm and turned the place into an unofficial club. , legend has it that Musk didn't get high, as he only took care of the administrative part of the event. Well guys, that's it for today, but that's it, would you like to know a little more about the life of this eccentric billionaire? Tell us in the comments, until next time.