{"id":102445,"date":"2020-02-17T01:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T09:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/how-billionaire-tesla-and-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-went-from-getting-bullied-as-a-child-to-becoming-one-of-the-most-successful-and-provocative-men-in-tech"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:25:11","slug":"how-billionaire-tesla-and-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-went-from-getting-bullied-as-a-child-to-becoming-one-of-the-most-successful-and-provocative-men-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/how-billionaire-tesla-and-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-went-from-getting-bullied-as-a-child-to-becoming-one-of-the-most-successful-and-provocative-men-in-tech","title":{"rendered":"How billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went from getting bullied as a child to becoming one of the most successful and provocative men in tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-billionaire-tesla-and-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-went-from-getting-bullied-as-a-child-to-becoming-one-of-the-most-successful-and-provocative-men-in-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems like there\u2019s nothing Elon Musk can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p>As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink, Musk seems to be everywhere all at once, pushing all kinds of futuristic technologies. He\u2019s said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-humans-mars-mission-2025-spacex-2016-6\">won\u2019t be happy until we\u2019ve escaped Earth and colonized Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, and the billions he\u2019s made along the way, Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark \u2014 which is why he served as an inspiration for Marvel\u2019s 2008 \u201cIron Man\u201d film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like there\u2019s nothing Elon Musk can\u2019t do. As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink, Musk seems to be everywhere all at once, pushing all kinds of futuristic technologies. He\u2019s said he won\u2019t be happy until we\u2019ve escaped Earth and colonized Mars. Between space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102775,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102445\/revisions\/102775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}