Interesting facts about Elon Musk

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The richest person in the world has had major success with Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal. But you probably don’t know this about him.

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Musk reached out to Google CEO Larry Page about buying the failing car company,

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Musk lasted two days at Stanford before dropping out of school. He was there initially to pursue a doctorate in physics.

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