1. Elon Musk was only 17 when he came to North America in 1989, with only $4000 to his name.
2. At 12, Elon Musk created a space game called Blastar and sold its code to a magazine for about $500 while living in South Africa.
3. At 18, Elon Musk took a dangerous job cleaning boiler rooms. After moving to Canada with little money, he stayed with a second cousin in the small town of Swift Current.