00:00Think Elon Musk always planned to build a tech empire?
00:03Not quite.
00:04He just couldn't get a job.
00:06In 1995, Musk applied to internet companies like Netscape and got nothing.
00:11He even loitered in their lobby, too shy to talk to anyone.
00:15His solution?
00:16I guess I'll have to start a company, he said.
00:19Before that, life was tough.
00:21He left South Africa at 17, worked brutal jobs in Canada, shoveling grain, chopping
00:26logs, and crawling into toxic boiler rooms.
00:29One job paid $18 an hour, but could literally cook you alive if you stayed in too long.
00:34Out of 30 people, only three lasted.
00:37Musk was one of them.
00:38Eventually, he earned degrees, got into Stanford, and dropped out.
00:42Why?
00:43He bet everything on the internet.
00:45So he built Zip2, sold it for $300 million, and kept going.
00:48PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX.
00:51The world sees Elon Musk as a visionary.
00:53But it all started with rejection and the decision to keep digging.
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