"Moon Walker to Star Walker: How Elon Musk Built a Galactic Legacy"

 Elon Musk didn’t start with his eyes on the stars—he began as a curious kid in South Africa, teaching himself to code at 12. Back then, he was a "moon walker," grounded in the everyday, building simple video games like Blastar and selling them for pocket change. It wasn’t flashy, but it sparked something bigger: a hunger to shape the future.Fast forward to 1995. Musk dropped out of a PhD program at Stanford after just two days, deciding to chase real-world impact instead. With his brother, he launched Zip2, a digital city guide, pouring every dime and hour into it. They slept in the office, showered at the YMCA, and lived on grit. That hustle paid off when Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million in 1999, netting Musk $22 million at age 27. It was his first step beyond the moon.But Musk wasn’t done walking. He co-founded X.com, which became PayPal, revolutionizing online payments. When eBay acquired it for $1.5 billion in 2002, Musk pocketed $165 million. Most would’ve stopped there, but Musk saw stars—literal ones. He founded SpaceX in 2002 with a wild dream: make humanity multiplanetary. Experts laughed; rockets were for governments, not dreamers. Yet, after three failed launches and near bankruptcy, SpaceX’s Falcon 1 soared in 2008, proving him right.Today, Musk’s a "star walker"—CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and more, with a net worth topping $250 billion. His Starship aims to colonize Mars, while Tesla redefines Earth’s roads. From a coder scraping by to a visionary touching the cosmos, Musk’s journey shows what happens when you refuse to stay grounded.

Takeaway: Start small, dream big, and don’t fear failure—every step can lead you from the moon to the stars.

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