@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries Their backstory is crazy. Maye's father was a member of Technocracy, which Canada feared aimed to overthrow the government. He worked in tons of random jobs, incl. help establish chiropracty in Canada. He took his whole fam to SA and they lived like Indiana Jones, looking for a..
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries ... lost city (which they never found). In SA, Maye started dating Errol Musk, who she too late realized was a serious manipulator and abuser; he even manipulated her into marrying him by telling all her friends and family that she had said yes, so she'd be too embarassed to...
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries ... back out. She finally did divorce him, with three children from the marriage. The older two wanted nothing to do with Errol, but Errol's mother convinced a young Elon that his father would be lonely without him, so he chose to stay - which he quickly came to regret. Errol...
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries - while not super wealthy - was successful (he bought a stake in an emerald mine in Namibia for half the value of a used bushplane, which did well for several years before going bankrupt), so it paid to send Elon to a good private school and get him a computer and books. But...
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries he was constantly involved in all sorts of questionable activities - as Elon put it, he was the sort of person who would sit down and spend hours plotting together a meticulously crafted plan of Evil. Was even charged with murder once, but got acquitted on self-defense.
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries Elon, meanwhile, was extremely bullied, to the point of being nearly murdered by his bullies on two occasions (once drowned / needed rescue breathing, another beaten badly enough to go to the ICU and left unrecognizable). And as his 18th birthday approached, he faced being...
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries drafted into the SA military, which at the time was primarily responsible for enforcing apartheid. So he fled SA to Canada (using his mother's family connections). Not much of a plan - he had $2k to his name and a bag of books - so he had to get by on odd jobs, including picking
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries ... fruit at a distant relative's farm in SK, working as a lumberjack, cleaning out boilers, etc. He eventually got into Queens College, then later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, studying both business and physics (did an internship on making advanced...
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries ... ultracapacitors for electric vehicles), and was about to start grad school at Stanford when his startup, Zip2, took off. Zip2's sale to Compaq gave him the money to start X.com, which joined with Confinity to form Paypal, whose sale to Ebay gave him...
@momsbyof3 @seastar898 @Creeks2013 @oldcanadaseries ... the money to start SpaceX and Tesla... both of which nearly went bankrupt, so he sold everything he owned to keep them afloat... and both managed to make it and ultimately become huge.
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