Elon Musk’s failure

What did Elon Musk try for two days before he gave up? Was it … eating only carrots, getting his Ph.D., living in a Mars space simulator or saying “good enough” to any project?

The answer: Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford University’s Ph.D. program in applied physics and materials science after just two days in 1995. In an interview, he said, “I could either do a Ph.D. or watch the internet happen.”

That same year, Musk co-founded Zip2, a city guide software company, which he sold to Compaq in 1999 for about $300 million. I don’t think he needed that degree after all …

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