Let's Find Out - Elon Musk Biography (Part 2) | ASMR

Episode Date: July 7, 2019

Part 2: Elon Musk is a shining example of a self-actualized human being in the 21st century. He's intelligent, disciplined, visionary, and most importantly, passionate about technology's relationship to the human race.

Do you guys know that Tesla Roadster in the space is really just a modified version of the Falcon 9 that you see? Two extra Falcon 9s strapped on the side of it to give it three times as much payload thrust. Strap-on boosters. The Falcon Heavy was designed to carry humans into space and not just low Earth orbit like the space, the altitude the space station's at, I've designed to go to the moon, asteroid mining. Impress you, then this would be better for you to watch right now because I'm about to talk about the man who made all that happen for the next. So hopefully not too much longer than that, because I have to work.

This man's inspiring me to more than just my 9 to 5. So I guess a video I've made in a while. Some trivia to tell your friends for the next conversation you have around the water. 15 years. And in fact, I think stick with me and that's coming up. Stay tuned. Just as a brief overview, 71, week until he was about three years old. And he tended to drift off as though he was deaf. His parents thought he was. So they actually got his adenoids.

To his own stories, he read about 10 hours a day. actually reading, but actually reading the Encyclopedia, Britannica, science fiction books to read. He was still to live with his father. He got bullied at school, which basic. He wrote his own game called Blastard actually sold it for $500. It's set his childhood before 12 years old, so you can imagine where he goes from there. He gets some work from his father. 17 got his Canadian citizenship and went to school there. I think an important, what is he not even? He's like 18 years old and he has the you know the courage the gusto to all the executives.

He got a degree in a degree he's going for and he doesn't wait, you know, to, doesn't wait to do anything. He doesn't waste his time at least. He goes straight into gold calling bank execs. He actually gets a job. So he has issues with authority figures and he gets chewed out apparently and leaves his job. Maybe he gets fired for using the executive coffee machine. He sells computers out of his dorm room. He actually makes some good money from the...

You can see all these things. He wasn't a passive child. He wasn't a passive kid. It wasn't a passive teenager and young adult. So he got his degree in economics. Doesn't really say what else, but I think it was engineering or maybe it was computer programming. I guess he got his master's, but he went into Stanford to get his PhD. He left after two days, realizing that it was too traditional of a track.

He probably wanted to just see, he'd be, at that point had enough experience and knowledge and make his own. He started a zip two. Of course he got 30 grand from his dad grand. But you know what? Like at least he had to use that money and not piss it off, you know, so become who he is today. So although it was handed a silver spoon, at least he took advantage of it. And is most people without a silver spoon, maybe including myself. Or an industrious, you know, use that knowledge that you know to start to start. company that you can sell for $300 million. Yeah, he's pretty industrious, pretty conscientious, I guess you might say, pretty impressive dude. So it's for his first company, Zip 2. He raises this first investment, which is $3 million. It takes a lot of, man, just everything he's doing most people wouldn't do. We wouldn't have the balls to do, you know?

you're sticking your neck out asking people for not just a couple thousand dollars but three million dollars shortly after he gets pushed out as oh from CEO to ctio but he gets 22 million dollars from the sale of zip two so he's up he's up by 1999 he's already millionaire eight years old as old as me actually i'm 29 so he's way the fuck ahead of me starts ex-top It's the precursor to PayPal. Bies a McLarenough one, crashes it for a million dollars, crashes it, competes with customers with another banking startup call, converges with Confinity. It's ousted from PayPal as CEO to PayPal because he knows it's gonna take off. But then he goes on vacation, a little side note almost dies from a living in Africa, right vaccination or something like that.

like that. It was something to do with a doctor misdiagnosing what he had and he literally almost would have died because he wasn't given the appropriate vaccinations. Okay so now 2001 he moves to LA and this is because I am but it's because in 2001 as early as 2001 after he uh you know he's a multi-multimic he's getting kicked out uh he got kicked out of PayPal recently got married He's 2,000 ways learning how to build rockets, pretty much on his own from books. Of course, people with that much money, you have connections to very intelligent, very successful people. So, you know, I'm sure he's getting some streamlined information. I'm sure he's not just approaching it blindly.

I'm sure he has access now that he has millions of dollars to the appropriate people to talk to. But nonetheless, he's still looking through aerodynamics. himself all these topics. So anyways, interested in starting SpaceX. Essentially, this is the seed of SpaceX. He's starting the seed of SpaceX. Takes a trip to Russia. This story's crazy, is that he wants to, at the time,

the NASA, our budget was being decreased. We were starting to use Russian ICBMs in our con launch, our astronauts in Russia. So he went over there and tried to buy some demilitarized ICBMs, you know, negotiation fails. And so, you know, he literally said that it was kind of sketchy. Like he was talking to these ex-Soviet Union bosses. And it was, he's sitting there potentially spending millions of dollars over in Russia,

talking these ex-military KGB, you know, high-level government officials. And, uh, they're very, skeptical, he's skeptical. It's kind of sketchy. Really that negotiation fails. It might be worth looking at conceptualized Mars Oasis, a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars, containing food crops grown space exploration, could travel to Moscow, Jim Cantrell, a aerospace supplies fixer, and Adio Resi, his best friend from college, I refurbished. ICBMs looked at as an amateur and was spat on. I forget if that was literal or not, it could have been literal though.

He was spat on by one of the Russian chief engine designers and the group returned to the United States empty-handed. Six months later the group returned to Russia named Griffin, who was part of the CIA's venture capitalist arm. NASA's jet propulsion laboratory, Mostras, one rocket for $8 million. However, Musk saw that this was, he thought it was way too expensive. So, Musk actually stormed out of the meeting.

Flight back, Musk realized that that could build as he needed. According to early Tesla and SpaceX investor, Steve Jervison, Jervetson, Musk calculated that the raw materials needed for building a rocket were actually only 3%, about $400,000. They were trying to get must-a-pay from Russia there. So it was concluded, theoretically, by applying vertical integration. And this concept, Nipsey Hustle, actually raps about in his songs,

which I think is cool as fuck. That, I think it's a... I love it when successful people aren't afraid to... afraid to share knowledge, how to be successful. Vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company. So it's like Budweiser trucks to transport all the beer, to act as a distributor to all the actual stores and, you know, all the vendors, baseball parks. And also just out of which they can sell that beer. So, and that's not the case because legally, legally I don't.

don't think they're allowed to actually do that. There's something, because it would be a monopoly or something like that. But I think that's only in the service industry. I have to buy from the middle. It's really a crazy concept. Nipsey Hussle, for instance. He's a rapper. But he's also a hugely successful businessman who integrated vertically,

vertically, obviously, produces his own music and something. you guys might not know because I didn't. He owns his own masters, which most rappers don't. A few smart ones like Jay-Z and Master P. They own all their masters, which means that everybody has to pay them 100% to use their music. Most rappers you know about, pretty much all rappers, with the exception of a few,

actually don't own the rights to their own music and actually don't own the rights to their own name. So an Eminem, or, you know, I might be wrong about him, but I don't know. Most rappers' names you think about, the record companies actually own the rights to their name. So whenever they personally want to use their name, their rap name, they have to pay to use it or okay it with a record company. And likewise, with their music, if they want to use their songs, You don't want a project. Anytime someone uses their songs, whether it's them or anyone else, the record company owns the rights to them.

They own their masters. So, it's something to think about. I'm thinking about if I get in the music business. It's those contracts, you know, you get a million dollars up front cash, but then you lose the rights to your name and your music. It's because they get paid. They get royalty checks. that's what Kurt Cobain was talking about on he probably signed a very terrible deal

and all the music he made he probably made maybe 5% off of what every song sells for you know every time it gets played or whatever however that works he only gets 5% the record companies get 90%

whoever someone else might get 5% so anyways Elon Musk was a boss he knew hey fuck it I'm an engineer, I'm a scientist, or at least I'm knowledgeable enough in science to know that I don't have to pay $8 million for a rocket. He starts his own company, SpaceX. Yeah, this is crazy. His first son dies from sudden infant death syndrome.

So just so you know, Elon Musk is starting a company. Of course, he's a millionaire at this point, so it's not like he's got too much stress, but your first son dies. I mean, it doesn't matter what sun it is, but in your first one, I feel like that's got to hurt that much more. So, that's really fucked up. And shortly after PayPal sells for 200 and it sells, and his cut of the sale is 250 million. But to be real, it's only $180 million after tax. So at this point, at the same time, he's got a quarter billion dollars. So he's got money to full.

float to start companies, but at the same time, he's also, he's also really spreading himself very, very thin. I think at one point, he left himself only like, like $500,000 or a million or something like that, which to us, to everybody, that's a lot of money, but realistically, so the rest 40 years of your life, it would actually be really hard to do. If, you know, if you're living in moderately in a nice area, property tax. And so we're up to 2006 now. Build rockets and the first three of them explode. And mind you, he's putting out all this money, all this infrastructure.

He didn't just, you know, it doesn't just hire a team to build rockets. He has to create his own factories and pay for that. And, uh, and then it's a lot of money. So he, the test for rockets, like literally he would have went bankrupt. He would have had to shut down and file for bankruptcy or at least close down SpaceX and not be able to invest any more money into it and to make it. And I'm sure he had a lot to do with that. You know, I'm sure he pushed his engineers like he's known to do.

So he started his NASA contract 2006 to make cargo delivery. to the International Space Station. It's the first investor in his cousin's Solar City. Compass pair of triplets. So now he's got five kids. 2007. Second launch fails. Rocket launch.

Just over the first Tesla owners get their cars. Tesla roadsters. I'm assuming that's when Elon's roadster that he just sent into space was built. Divorces his wife. The third rocket launch happens. So yeah, that's what it is. His fourth successful rocket launch happens.

Void's bankruptcy. Gets the NASA contract for 12 flights for $1.6 billion. So, assuming that each rocket is about a million dollars, something like that, that's a pretty good profit margin. This is 2008. Yeah, you know, like, if you're really interested, read an article. If you're super interested beyond that, read the book. Well, it's actually pretty interesting. I mean, it's pretty captivating.

It's pretty inspirational. There's a lot of anecdotes in there that just much of a chess player. Elon really is. He thinks out all his moves, but he also takes a lot of risk. So he unveils his first Model S. But he almost Tesla and SpaceX together at the same time, because he's so spread out. They almost go into bankruptcy.

I mean, the guy was just so impressive. I mean, he literally buys a car factory really cheap. I had a failed Toyota truck car factory. Refurbishes it, retools it, and modifies it to produce Teslas, obviously. He marries some other chick. 2011 promises to send humans to Mars by somewhere between the year 2021 and 2031. He announced his reusable rockets. unveils the Tesla Model X, so that's three different models of almost four of Tesla's he's got now

three years after his marriage to that chick who's the reason I didn't mention her name. He divorces her. He's concerned about that. The Dragon, SpaceX vehicle, docks to the International Space Station. Superful achievement. He, uh, well, he starts trying to land the rockets, like feet first. launches his supercharger network for the Teslas. Shortly after, a year later after his divorce, he marries the same chick again.

What's up with that? But whatever. Publishes in 2013, the design for the Hyperloop. This guy's constantly going. I love that about him. He's just probably wakes up every day. Just so thrilled to like start a new project and somewhat finish. his old projects. He has a couple

failed attempts for like a year or two. It is a grasshopper rock of falconine rockets. Successful. A gigafactory. A lot of solar power, if not 100%, at least a lot of solar power to run it. 2015 gets his first Model X.

Jeff Bezos to a rocket competition that's still actually still going on in 2015. So three years later, it's still going on. It's his first reusable rocket. So we jump ahead now in 2017 and he works, starts working on the big fucking rocket. Not my words. That works on cheap methane fuel. Starts the boring company, 2017 May, summer. The first customers get their Model 3 car. It's meant to be the Model E but there already was, I think, Ford or something like that. Already had the Model E going. So he had the

name of the three because he wanted his cars to spell sex. As model S, E, and X. Uh, 2017, he divorces that lady for the second time. And I know now he has a, some... In all the pictures I see, she doesn't always look like she's too impressed to be with him, despite, probably just, maybe just there for the money? Who knows? I don't know.

Maybe he's okay with that because he needs company and needs someone to raise his kids. Who really knows? shortly after his divorce I love how he just gets married and divorce has kids and all this and all these major milestones of all his companies are still just fearlessly relentlessly occurring

unveils the Tesla semi Tesla semi which actually just the other day you know I mean whatever you guys can see the upload date of this video if you care that much but he he just I think ran the first long-distance trip with an autopilot, completely automatically driving the semi.

So you better think about a new line of work if you're a truck driver. Unveils the new Tesla Roadster that escalates, escalates, and that too, accelerates 60 miles an hour. On this article, the Falcon Heavy hadn't been launched yet, but it is now a roadster into orbit. Mars orbit. First hyperlute should start running by 2020 which is the it might be subsonic but it's gonna be like 400 miles an hour. It's gonna be something crazy fast. You know actually I wanna look up see how 760 miles an hour. Jesus Christ. Oh my god. That's crazy. You guys just is impressive stuff I printed out but I'm not gonna get to read them because I'm late for work right now.

You guys might not like this one. A lot of you didn't. Just so cool, successful people, just stick your neck out and take risks, you know? Is it really that satisfying laying in bed all day and just having a mediocre life? You know, not that families and more scared to do what they don't know than it really...

Sometimes it is. It's crazy out there, but are you gonna have regrets on your deathbed? I don't think he'll want to ask. Maybe I will. Sharing the few of you who chose to donate on PayPal. Let me look up. News Patreon.

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