Elon Musk is now rich and famous, his last fortune according to Forbes in the range of USD 250 billion. He started from the bottom, even when he first went abroad, Elon once claimed that he only had a meager amount of capital.
Elon was born and raised in South Africa but as a teenager, he decided to study in Canada and then the United States. He didn't have much lunch with him at the time.
"I arrived in North America at the age of 17 with $2000, a backpack and a suitcase full of books," he told CNBC.
"I paid my own tuition fees. Once I dropped out of Stanford with a tuition debt of USD 110 thousand. Then created an internet startup with my brothers and friends," he added.
Long story short, he later succeeded in establishing large companies such as Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX. Elon did move to the United States to develop and eventually had tremendous success.
"It seems if there is technology or something cool, it happens in the United States. So my goal was to move to the United States," he said on another occasion.
At first, he didn't know what he really wanted. But fate led him to become an entrepreneur and establish big companies.
"Growing up, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. At one point, I thought finding or creating something was cool. But I wasn't so sure it meant starting a company or just working for a company that made cool things," he said. .
