Elon Musk has been very successful in his entrepreneurial career making billions and changing the world! But he has been very close to complete failure, risking it all on something that people thought was very unrealistic and would never happen or become a success.

Elon Musk's success and failures

Elon Musk made a few million by selling the very successful maps technology company called Zip2 and also by selling his share in PayPal for roughly $150 million. Overall he probably had $175 million and he risked it all on a space company called SpaceX, which nobody around the world took seriously, he had a few failed launches and was left with one more to save himself from going bankrupt and completely failing his ambition to make a dent in the universe. But very luckily the launch was successful which made SpaceX the first private company to launch a successful rocket into space! The launch also made him some money to continue with SpaceX, and to start his other companies like Tesla, Solar city...