Meet Elon Musk The First Future Trillionaire in the US • 1971: Born in Pretoria, South Africa • 1988: Left for Canada with $2,000 in his pocket • 1995: Got into Stanford PhD. Dropped out after 2 days, "too much to build" • 1999: Founded , his first online bank and payments company • 2000: merges with Confinity. It becomes PayPal • 2002: eBay buys PayPal for $1.5B, Elon walks away with $180M • 2003: Puts every dollar into SpaceX. Tells friends "I think we will fail" • 2008: SpaceX and Tesla nearly go bankrupt in the same week. He cries on national TV • 2010: Tesla IPOs. First US automaker to go public since Ford in 1956 • 2012: SpaceX docks at the ISS, first private company in history to do it • 2018: SEC charges him for a tweet. He settles for $20M and steps down as chairman • 2020: SpaceX launches the first private crewed mission to the ISS. Tesla up 700% that year • 2021: Becomes the richest person in history at $300B • 2022: Buys Twitter for $44B • 2023: Rebrands to X. Vision: the American everything app • March 2026: Net worth $800B, richer than the next person by $500B • April 2026: X Money launches, P2P payments, savings accounts, debit card He built the world's first payments app in 1999, 27 years later he's doing it again @elonmusk