{"id":12498,"date":"2023-12-28T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2023-12-28T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T06:30:11","slug":"how-did-elon-musk-become-the-worlds-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/how-did-elon-musk-become-the-worlds-richest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Elon Musk Become The World’s Richest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk is currently the richest person in the world, overtaking Amazon chief Jeff Bezos in 2020. But Musk’s journey to the top began several decades ago, when he dropped out of Stanford University to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. In the following decades, Musk worked on a number of projects including PayPal and SpaceX which helped him become one of the richest people on the planet.<\/p>\n

From an early age, Musk had the makings of an entrepreneur. Growing up in South Africa, his parents encouraged him to become inventors, pushing him to pursue ideas and concepts that others may not have seen. This motivated him to pursue projects such as software development and rocket engineering that eventually culminated in his today’s success.<\/p>\n

PayPal is what really helped Musk become well-known. He founded the company, which eventually became the leading e-payment platform in the world, in 1999. PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion, yielding an enormous profit for Musk and making him a millionaire and public figure.<\/p>\n

The SpaceX project was then his next big success. SpaceX, an aerospace engineering and transport manufacturing company, was intended to stimulate the space economy and make space travel cheaper. Through SpaceX, Musk was able to have a direct influence on the future of space exploration. In 2012, SpaceX was valued at more than $1 billion and continues to achieve remarkable successes in its various aerospace projects.<\/p>\n