According to media reports, a few days ago, in an interview, Musk reviewed his legendary entrepreneurial journey from traveling alone in North America to attending a prestigious school and then starting a company.
Musk said that he came to North America alone when he was 17 years old. When he arrived in Montreal, Canada, he only brought thousands of Canadian dollars in traveler's checks. I wanted to go to my mother's uncle first, but I didn't know he had moved to Minnesota until I arrived.
Helpless, I had to stay in a youth hostel first, and then bought a plane ticket across Canada to Saskatchewan. I have done all kinds of work here. I did odd jobs on my mother's cousin's farm for six weeks, spent my 18 birthday there, and sawed wood in a timber factory.
Because I became a Canadian citizen through my mother, I was able to get some scholarships and student loans. And began to study in Canada. Relying on the subsidy from the school, I paid my own tuition.
Later, I applied to the University of Pennsylvania, but I couldn't go because the tuition was too high. But in the end, the University of Pennsylvania gave me scholarships and student loans, and now I can continue my studies.
By the time I graduated, I had owed about $654.38 million in student loans. Then I went to Stanford University for further study. At the same time, I started looking for a job, but it didn't go well, so I had no choice but to start an Internet company.
Through this company, I developed an online map navigation system, almost all of which were programmed by myself, including map navigation, yellow pages, white pages and so on. Because the old computer used at that time had a small capacity, the code should be very compact.
In addition, the company also applied for some patents on navigation, yellow pages and white pages. In the end, the company sold about $300 million and held 7% of its shares.
Later, the money was invested in X.com, and finally it merged with Confinity to become the current PayPal, and then it got $65.438+$80 million. Then I invested all the money I got in space exploration technology company, Tesla and Sun City, and finally achieved today's achievements.