Dan Martin

The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

@Amy_Siskind Imagine if Democrats weren’t fucking crooks.

@Amy_Siskind Imagine if you weren't economically illiterate.

@Amy_Siskind You are in the same space as good ole Bernie

@Amy_Siskind There’s no way to make a buck without benefiting others.

Imagine if Elon Musk did something to benefit others with his trillion.

@simonateba @elonmusk No, Thank God he loves the US!

Be brutally honest: Are you deeply outraged that, while hundreds of millions of Americans and I are struggling financially, @elonmusk has just now become the world's first trillionaire, with more wealth than he could spend in 1,000 lifetimes? Yes or no?

@ChrissyCasilio @MayorSeanRyan Marine Drive Apartments are sitting on what was the most valuable land in the city of Buffalo. And for some reason the city has been shrinking since they were built.

There are over 15,000 vacant lots in the city of Buffalo. The city owns about half of those lots. @MayorSeanRyan CAMPAIGNED about these lots. Why is Canalside even part of this conversation?

@megynkelly What are the benefits of diversity again?

This is one of the most inhumane things I’ve ever seen. Pure EVIL

@BladeoftheS Elon read that quote too and he disagrees.

Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind. "One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing." Amazing powers of prediction.

Yall know if Karmelo Anthony was the aggressor they would have been released that video 😳

@AndyFrancess It was smart by Chatfield and a little risky unless he knew right away that he was bleeding. If no blood, then probably no penalty, no matter how long he laid there.

Brilliant move by Chatfield here. You know you just got high-sticked and nothing was called so you simply stay down injured long enough for the refs to do that weird thing where they’ll just call a double-minor after the fact thinking they can rescind it, which they obv couldn’t.

@libsoftiktok @sues86453 Stay classy BLM!

There’s a new disturbing social media trend of BLM activists posting edited images of themselves urinating on Austin’s grave You can’t get much lower than this. Make these POS scum famous

@SteveLovesAmmo I would wave my no trade clause and join 2.

2 would win before lunchtime. Against 1 and 3.

@omgsidewalks Trillionaires must wake up even later. I can’t wait!

The Billionaires don’t wake up at 5am. Teachers, nurses, bus drivers, etc., wake up at 5am. Billionaires wake up whenever they want because their wealth doesn’t come from their own labor. It comes from the labor of people who will never be billionaires.

@DarrigoMelanie ‘Doing nothing about homelessness and hunger’??

It is a moral failure of our country that we changed the rules to create a trillionaire while doing nothing about the 771,000 homeless and over 18 million who do not have enough to eat.

@middle_class_us Hang in there

Living in America used to feel like winning the lottery. What happened? Why do accept $2500 rent for an apartment that used to be $1200 just a few years ago? Why do we accept $150 grocery trips that don't keep us fed for more than a few days? Why do we accept stagnant wages when we work harder than anyone else? We need to come together and fix this. While we still can.

Knicks fans really went after a Five Guys employee just because he was a Spurs fan

So can someone explain to me how John Cooper had the Vezina Trophy winner (Vasilevskiy) and the Hart Trophy Winner (Kucherov) and STILL didn’t win the division AND got bounced in the first round by the lower seed and he STILL won the Jack Adams? Seems like his team MASSIVELY under performed. If you have the Vezina and Hart winners on the same team you better AT LEAST be in the cup finals and win your division if not the conference. @NHL explain. #GoBolts

@ProfWBCarter Turns out that Karmelo didn’t have any peers. So they got 12 people with unbiased brains.

I have not yet read the full trial transcript. But so far, I do know this. Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a jury of his peers. He did not get that. On that ground alone, he is entitled to a new trial. Minorities are not interchangeable. The prosecutor’s reported proffered reasons for striking all black jurors —that they were teachers—appears to be pretext. Anthony needs a new lawyer on appeal and in a new trial. His trial lawyer allowed in opinion evidence that should have been struck. He also seemed unable to appreciate and counter the impact of racial overtones in that case. Those overtones are clear even on Twitter commentary as folks seek to paint Metcalf as having no culpability in what happened and Karmelo as a complete monster. The facts on how the matter escalated are more complicated than that. He and they had no such authority. They are also apparent in the statements that seek to deputize Metcalf and other kids with authority to remove Anthony. They had none and initiated the conflict. That does not mean they should have been killed but it means they have explaining to do. The lawyer for Anthony apparently did not require that explaining. It is fair to ask how the Anthony’s ended up selecting that lawyer. The trial judge must be disqualified in any new trial if he actually gave an interview about the case before the appeal was considered. He has negatively affected the appeal rights of the defendant. He should know better. He should also be disqualified if he has any relationship with the Metcalf side. In a criminal trial, the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The defendant does not have to prove he is not guilty. Those rules apply to everyone. They apply to Anthony.