The Elon Musk Story | PayPal & Zip2 | Stories of Success

The story of Elon Musk, from his first ideas to his first millions.

This episode covers Elon Musk's early life, from South Africa, to Canada, to his first businesses Zip2 and Paypal.

All feedback and suggestions are welcome!

[storiesofsuccess]

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[olliegilpin]

Love the more conversational and casual style. Easy to listen and refreshing!

[theelysiumtimes]

You got a great voice, pal! I mean, good script and sweet music.

I would be down to see a back story of David Sinclair and George Church.

I was taking this youtube course... and someone mentioned something interesting, it's called the 90/10 rule, which is 90% mainstream, 10% controversial. Middle of the road stuff can be boring. For example, doing a story on Martin Shkrelli. I know it would be depressing to do that, but it would get views and you could give it a more dramatic and shocking tone...

Look forward to coming back to check up on you in a few months. Keep it up!

[vonsassy]

Loved this. I hope to be the next female Elon Musk. Thank you!

[GR-sglv]

One hell of a story. Timing. And circle of close colleagues. And perserverence.

[bwing]

Fantastic music. You have the voice and story telling ability.

[jinyos]

Bro keep it up your voice is made for this

[MT-ubcq]

Hey, can I translate this vid into Japanese and post it? Many Japanese youtube users wish to know more about these stuff but has no access to it
I’ll paste your channel and original vids link

[outside_matrix]

what's the name of the background music?

[subijoyacharya]

Thanks for that amazing video. It was a very detailed discussion of his origin story.

Suggestion: Do video on Indian Startups, you will build more audience.

[patradoxon]

Great Content, why dont you have 100k?!

[clew]

Really good stuff mate! Keep those videos coming 😉

[MindsetHome]

Thanks, I see one day I'll be here too!

[himanshusingh]

Now his rivals might be regretting that why they bullied him tremendously.

[lucst-laurent]

The subtitles are wrong a lot of times...

[juliabond]

Elon began writing software for Zip2 in 1995. His brother joined him from Canada. The company was ready to sell and had sold as Zip2 for $307 million! At this time his mother was having problems with her computer in Canada. His brother was very close to his mom so he flew the day before sale to Canada. The following day Kimball started driving back to US to meet with Elon to sign papers for sale of $307M. He was stopped at border because he had no green card and was not A USCitizen. Kimball called a friend to drive him across the border at a different spot. He made it in time to close the sale either in 1999 ( I read one place) or 2000. Elon filed for a green card in 2002! In July 2022 he became a citizen. I believe he had to take all cash for this sale. Could this be reason why he had no choice other than cash?
This was totally illegal to be working as a non-citizen!! Biden must charge him and do whatever necessary to keep him out of government forever. This would include receiving any money from our government for either SpaceX or Tesla!
Everyone must write to or call Joe Biden immediately!

[maxbarton]

Fast forward 1 year you'll have 100k subs and and "want to be success too? Skillshare..."

[juliabond]

Elon began writing software for Zip2 in 1995. His brother joined him from Canada. The company was ready to sell and had sold as Zip2 for $307 million! At this time his mother was having problems with her computer in Canada. His brother was very close to his mom so he flew the day before sale to Canada. The following day Kimball started driving back to US to meet with Elon to sign papers for sale of $307M. He was stopped at border because he had no green card and was not A USCitizen. Kimball called a friend to drive him across the border at a different spot. He made it in time to close the sale either in 1999 ( I read one place) or 2000. Elon filed for a green card in 2002! In July 2022 he became a citizen. I believe he had to take all cash for this sale. Could this be reason why he had no choice other than cash?
This was totally illegal to be working as a non-citizen!! Biden must charge him and do whatever necessary to keep him out of government forever. This would include receiving any money from our government for either SpaceX or Tesla!
Everyone must write to or call Joe Biden immediately!