Iron musk: the iron man who changed the world

Iron muskthe iron man who changed the worldThe real story of Elon Musk, the man who changed the worldHe has been called the real life Tony Stark, he's worth $12.5 billion, he has been labelled the world's 38th most powerful person and he has world leaders on speed dial.The 45-year-old changed the way you shop, and now he's working on the way you get there. When he's done he wants to power our home, fire us like bullets through tubes that link cities and then take us all to Mars. Apart from that, he lives a pretty chill life.The legend of Elon Musk has now gone further than the mighty Apple and he has become a cult all of his own.It's a tale of one man moving mountains. It is also a tale punctuated by massive, near reckless gambling of a fortune that he built from nothing on insane concepts that sound like drunk bar talk-----------------Sleeping in the office and showering at the local YMCA, he built Zip2, essentially city guide software for newspapers, with his brother, and sold it to Compaq for more than $300 million in February 1999. He was 28 and reportedly pocketed $22 million. It was the ideal time to ride off on a thoroughbred horse and live off the interest on a big yacht.He didn't do that. Instead he ploughed all that money into an 11.7% stake in PayPal, which translated into a $160 million fortune when the payments company sold out to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.Musk just about made time to marry Justine Wilson and they overcame the death of their first child, Nevada, at just 10 weeks old, to have five children together. Wilson reportedly never forgot the way Musk refused to grieve Nevada's death, even though they went on to have five children together.The two battled on for eight years together, but six weeks after their divorce he was seen with Inception star Talulah Riley. He married her in 2010, they divorced in 2012, remarried in 2013, almost divorced in 2014 and then finally Riley filed a massive suit in March 2016. They gave it a good try...