"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
- Unknown
Successful, multi-talented, and philanthropic businessman and entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man of many interests who does not let success get to his head. While he may have an enormous ego like any other successful person who's achieved something big, the billionaire doesn't let it go to his head and instead focuses on what matters: family. Elon Musk even donated $10 million in 2010 to the Future of Life Institute with the hope that artificial intelligence not be used in military purposes. Although his personal life is a mystery, we know that Musk has two children from his first marriage with Britany Shiloh, a girl named Nevada and a boy named Ian.
What's interesting about the billionaire is his passion for space flight and his continued goal to be able to explore and lead humanity into the next stage of its existence. While he may want to explore other planets, it seems that in order for him to continue with that goal, he will have use an interplanetary transport system (ITS). This will allow passengers to travel from one place in the solar system or even across the universe at faster than light speed through fold relativity. And while it's still in a prototype stage at the moment, Musk is working on a UFO that he plans to make public in order to help him with his space exploration goals. For the billionaire, it's not about being famous or receiving accolades like other people. It's about finding a solution to humanity's problems by exploring and discovering what it means to be human.
As for Musk not dwelling on success, this may be because he seems to have forgotten about the $100 million that he lost in 2014 after completing his launch of Space X and Tesla electric cars with Hyperloop. What's more, after having sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion and Tesla to Google for $6 billion, it seemed that nothing could stop Musk from achieving his goals. However, although he was able to build from ground zero an electric car company that eventually took over the auto industry, and sell a rocket company that NASA has used for resupplying the International Space Station and launching satellites into space, there were always those who questioned his ideas. In fact, the debut of Hyperloop was a failure because people had no clue how it worked or even what it was.
Two years later he launched Space X's Falcon 9 rocket which made history by delivering a mission payload into geostationary transfer orbit. After twice successfully launching cargo and supplies to the International Space Station on its Dragon spacecraft and the most recent successful launch of Falcon 9 rocket in February, another problem was found during a test flight of rocket booster's helium system. This is when the billionaire used his wealth to try and fix his problems with both Tesla and Space X. He has been even more generous in donating large amounts of money to universities.
Musk has not only given millions to ordinary colleges and universities like Stanford, MIT, Princeton, the University of Southern California (USC), and many others, but he also has given millions worth of donations to science institutes as well so that engineers are trained for his future projects. For example, the billionaire has donated $33 million for the creation of an engineering school at MIT. This was followed by a donation to study the brain at USC and another of $10 million to NASA's Space Research Lab in 2015.
Although Musk has remained quiet about technology and his personal life, he's attracted attention from the media in recent years because of his plans to start another space exploration company called Boring Co with technology that will allow vehicles and passengers to travel through tunnels in Los Angeles that will be underground. Just like Musk's other projects, his new company will not only create a futuristic transportation system for people, but also make it possible for people living under cities (burrows) underground to travel safely through subterranean tubes.
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