Elon Musk on how his elementary school teacher encouraged his ideas and thoughts

Elon Musk is one of most powerful entrepreneurs who has created many billion-dollar companies over years. A workaholic, Musk has experienced some astounding success that gave rise to people comparing him to likes of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Henry Ford, among ors.

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Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk began his schooling at private Waterkloof House Preparatory School before finally graduating from Pretoria Boys High School. He launched his first company called Zip2 Corporation in 1995 and became a U.S. citizen in 2002. His work with companies like PayPal, SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and X helped him defy critics as he soon went on to make advances in all three of those frontiers. His aero manufacturer and transportation services company, X, recently made history when it launched first crewed mission to .

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Elon Musk opens up on favourite school teacher

Musk, who is kwn for inspiring  youth with his success stories and life lessons, once opened up on how one of his school teachers would push students to work harder to achieve something big.

entrepreneur was sharing his opinion on how his elementary school teacher principal help encour ideas among students after he subbed in for a math teacher. Musk furr explained that it actually led to extra burden and pressure, but re was a motivating factor that encourd all students to complete ir work. Musk was actually responding to a thread on Reddit from a school teacher.

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Elon Musk's school

Elon Musk had built an experimental school for students called Ad Astra, on his company X's Hawthorne, California campus. private school was opened quietly in 2014, right after Musk had pulled his kids from Mirman School in Los Angeles.

Elon Musk net worth

According to many reports, Elon Musk has a net worth that stands as an estimated $40.4 billion, as of June 2020.  49-year-old has been placed at 24th position on  Forbes list of real-time billionaires. 

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