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Genius, millionaire, playboy , philanthropist, Tesla techno-king , emperor of Mars and promoter of alternative education methods. Elon Musk has criticized America's educational system on several occasions, but instead of just making complaints, he got down to business. In 2014, the billionaire announced the creation of Ad Astra , a mysterious disruptive school with its own system , in which his children and only a select few study.

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The CEO of Tesla loves to show off his ambitious projects, but this time he preferred to keep Ad Astra , which is Latin for 'towards the stars', totally secretive. Very little is known about this exclusive school, located at the SpaceX facility in California . So little that only the logo and an email address appeared on their website. That until June 2018, because now not even that.

Elon Musk has seven children in total. With his first wife, Justine Musk , he became the father of Nevada Alexander (2002, died at age 10 weeks), twins Griffin and Xavier (2004), and triplets Damian, Saxon, and Kai (2006). His seventh child is little X AE A-XII Musk , born in May 2020, the result of his relationship with the singer Grimes.

Due to his innovative and eccentric nature, Musk did not want to take his children to a traditional elite school.

"I hated going to school when I was little, it was torture," confessed Musk, who was bullied as a child in South Africa.

So in 2014 he decided to found his own school with his own methodology , supported by a former teacher at the Mirman School for Gifted Children , located in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, which his children used to attend.

"I created a small school," said the SpaceX founder in 2015, in a television interview in Beijing. There he spoke for the first time about Ad Astra and explained that his educational model would be skills-oriented. According to the portal The Hustle , the goals of this hermetic school are:

In this school, Elon Musk explained then, the educational model is based on not qualifying students , but looking for their aptitudes .

"Indeed, there are no qualifications, instead of treating the school as an assembly line, I think it makes more sense to attend to education to match your skills and student abilities," the businessman explained in the same interview in 2015 .

"The school currently has 14 children and will increase to 20 in September," added the businessman at the time, but by 2018 it already had 40 students, according to the BBC .

There the children are not separated by degrees according to their age . Boys from 7 to 14 years old (which is the age range of students) are taught to work together as a team.

This is how the Ad Astra website looked before 2018, now you only see a gray background with the legend: "This site is currently private. If you are the owner or collaborator, please log in." Source: Ad Astra School .

The subjects are also different, because in Ad Astra , students study Artificial Intelligence (AI) , applied science , coding and design of many things, mainly the creation of robots .

The curriculum does not include sports subjects, foreign languages or music . The 50-year-old businessman considers that it is no longer appropriate to teach foreign languages in schools, because today there is real-time translation software. Very debatable for most, but perhaps reasonable for Musk's children.

"The philosophy of the school is experimental, it is not based on a curriculum. Musk decided that he wanted to educate his children and a small group of children that way. It is something that he developed, it is his idea, it is not a traditional school ," he said to the BBC Christina Simon , author of the book 'Beyond the Catalog: A Connoisseur's Guide to Private Elementary Schools in Los Angeles'.

"It was said at some point that Ad Astra was for the children of SpaceX employees , but it is not clear which workers are being offered the offer, or to how many or under what conditions," Simon said. "It is not known exactly who these children are ," he added.

In an informal visit made by BBC Mundo in 2018, which had the condition not to reveal many details of the program, they were able to verify that Ad Astra does exist , learn a little about its operation and clarify some rumors.

Among the discoveries they were able to reveal is that children do not have to pass an IQ test to be admitted . In reality, potential students visit the school and interact with the staff, who discuss whether the little ones will be able to enjoy and take advantage of the Ad Astra educational model.

For now, children whose parents do not work at SpaceX can request their income by referring someone they know. However, they plan to open the registration process a little more, always with a limited number of places to maintain the disruptive spirit of the campus.

The Los Angeles school specialist commented that she receives many emails from parents who want to enroll their children in Ad Astra and do not know how to do it.

"They are not concerned about what the school is like, how many teachers it has or how it works, information that you normally want to know before choosing your children's school. Only that it is about Elon Musk," said Simon.

As with other alternative systems, such as Montessori or Waldorf, many wonder whether Ad Astra graduates will have enough skills and knowledge to eventually enter university.

Of course, this does not matter one bit to billionaire Elon Musk , who has already made it clear that he does not consider a university education important.

"I think college is basically a place to have fun and show that you can do your homework, but that's not for learning ," Musk said in December 2020.

The mogul added that universities are forging students to accept "annoying tasks" when they enter the world of work. According to Musk, it is "absurd" for companies to hire personnel based on their academic degree, so it is not a requirement to have a university degree to work at Tesla , SpaceX or any of their companies.

He also pointed out that you can learn any subject online and for free, and gave an example to several billionaires who dropped out of college, such as Bill Gates , Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs , among others.

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Enlarge / Yulia Peresild will play the lead role in the Russian space film The Challenge.

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The leader of Russia's space program is desperate to have Elon Musk visit him. On multiple occasions, Dmitry Rogozin has invited the founder of SpaceX to come to Kazakhstan for the October 5 launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft carrying three Russians to the International Space Station.

More recently, during an interview on CNN, Rogozin gained a fair amount of publicity when he invited Musk to visit his home in Russia.

"We respect him as an organizer of the space industry and as an inventor who is not afraid to take risks," Rogozin said. Musk was welcomed "to be a guest of my family" and discuss "exploring the universe, extraterrestrial life, and how we can use space to preserve life on Earth."

"I already set the teakettle on heat," he added.

In a response on Twitter, Musk was noncommittal. It is a fool's errand to try to predict the actions of Elon Musk, but given his understandable security concerns, it's difficult to see the billionaire visiting Rogozin in Russia or attending the launch in Kazakhstan.

One might even read an ominous intent in Rogozin's invitation. The "teakettle" comment recallsthe poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who in 2000 fled to the United Kingdom after becoming critical of Vladimir Putin's rise to power. Six years after leaving Russia,Litvinenko was poisoned by drinking tea laced withpolonium. He died three weeks later, and Western intelligence services eventually concluded that the poisoning was conducted by Russian agents acting under the approval of Putin.

So Musk is probably not going to Russia. And he is probably not going to drink tea with Dmitry Rogozin. But it's nonetheless worthwhile to try to understand Rogozin's motivations for reaching out to Musk in this way.

Since becoming head of Roscosmos in 2018, Rogozin has had a passive-aggressive relationship with Musk. Rogozin has responded to SpaceX's success with bravado and bluster much of the time, saying the company's engineers are too gentle, or their rockets and spacecraft are not safe enough for Russian cosmonauts to ride upon.

At the same time, Rogozin has seen SpaceX largely destroy important revenue streams for Russia's space industry. Most notably, Crew Dragon has cut off the approximately $400 million NASA paid to Roscosmos every year for crew transport services to the International Space Station. Additionally, SpaceX lobbied for a congressional mandate preventing United Launch Alliance from buying RD-180 rocket engines from Russia. Finally, the low-cost Falcon 9 rocket has eroded the commercial launch business for the Russian Proton rocket, a former workhorse that now launches about once a year.Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin is photographed in October 2018 after the launch failure of a Soyuz-FG rocket.

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So why play nice with Musk now? There are at least two good reasons.

First, if Rogozin were to get Musk to actually visit him in Russia, he and the country's space program could bask in his reflective glory. Musk has a deep appreciation for Soviet rocketryhe recently spent an hour visiting with the grandson of Sergei Korolev at SpaceX's headquarters. Musk undoubtedly would say nice things about Russia's space program during such a visit. By meeting with Musk, Rogozin could project himself as an equal. This would be important propaganda for him and Russia's flagging space program.

It's likely equally important to Rogozin, if not more so, to attract Musk to the upcoming Soyuz launch. This is because Rogozin and Roscosmos have staked a lot on this flight, which will be commanded by cosmonautAnton Shkaplerov and carry two other passengers:Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko. The actress and director will spend about 10 days on-board the International Space Station shooting a film called The Challenge.

This film project has sparked criticism within the cosmonaut corps in Russia, as it has led to a rapid reshuffling of flight schedules, and the budget for the film has come out of the space corporation's budget. However, the movie is a high priority for Rogozin, as he is desperate to have something to show in the 60th year after Yuri Gagarin's historic first spaceflight in April 1961.

"The project is needed in order to demonstrate Russian technologies and to draw the attention of the worlds societies to the Jubilee of Yuri Gagarins flight," veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin said during an interview earlier this year with Novaya Gazeta. "So it has to be done by April 12, 2022."

To Rogozin, making the first "feature film" in space would represent another "historic first" for Russia in space, alongside the lines of Gagarin's flight, that of Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, and other Soviet exploits in the 1960s. But this doesn't satisfy some people, such as Yurchikhin, who see a country reliant on decades-old technology for human spaceflight and promises rather than real projects for the future.

"We must deal systematically with our space research plans and crew training without changing the script in the middle of the play,"Yurchikhin said, clearly referring to Rogozin's leadership. "If you promise and fail to deliver, have the guts to step aside for someone more worthy, and dont go unhinged on them.Demonstrating superiority requires real achievements and victoriesaccomplished in silence. Only then will we give our society the basis in the future to proclaim boldly before the world, 'Space is ours!'"

Having Elon Musk at the launch of The Challenge film project would attract the glitz and attention Rogozin so desperately craves as he seeks to craft an image of the Russian space program that is more Hollywood than Potemkin village.

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Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for you, but presumably it would handle any number of tasks involving manual labor.

Predictably, social media filled with references to a string of dystopian sci-fi movies about robots where everything goes horribly wrong.

As troubling as the robot futures in movies like I, Robot, The Terminator and others are, its the underlying technologies of real humanoid robots and the intent behind them that should be cause for concern.

Musks robot is being developed by Tesla. Its a seeming departure from the companys car-making business, until you consider that Tesla isnt a typical automotive manufacturer. The so-called Tesla Bot is a concept for a sleek, 125-pound humanlike robot that will incorporate Teslas automotive artificial intelligence and autopilot technologies to plan and follow routes, navigate traffic in this case, pedestrians and avoid obstacles.

Dystopian sci-fi overtones aside, the plan makes sense, albeit within Musks business strategy. The built environment is made by humans, for humans. And as Musk argued at the Tesla Bots announcement, successful advanced technologies are going to have to learn to navigate it in the same ways people do.

Yet Teslas cars and robots are merely the visible products of a much broader plan aimed at creating a future where advanced technologies liberate humans from our biological roots by blending biology and technology. As a researcher who studies the ethical and socially responsible development and use of emerging technologies, I find that this plan raises concerns that transcend speculative sci-fi fears of super-smart robots.

Self-driving cars, interplanetary rockets and brain-machine interfaces are steps toward the future Musk envisions where technology is humanitys savior. In this future, energy will be cheap, abundant and sustainable; people will work in harmony with intelligent machines and even merge with them; and humans will become an interplanetary species.

Its a future that, judging by Musks various endeavors, will be built on a set of underlying interconnected technologies that include sensors, actuators, energy and data infrastructures, systems integration and substantial advances in computer power. Together, these make a formidable toolbox for creating transformative technologies.

Musk imagines humans ultimately transcending our evolutionary heritage through technologies that are beyond-human, or super human. But before technology can become superhuman, it first needs to be human or at least be designed to thrive in a human-designed world.

This make-tech-more-human approach to innovation is whats underpinning the technologies in Teslas cars, including the extensive use of optical cameras. These, when connected to an AI brain, are intended to help the vehicles autonomously navigate road systems that are, in Musks words, designed for biological neural nets with optical imagers in other words, people. In Musks telling, its a small step from human-inspired robots on wheels to humanlike robots on legs.

Teslas full self-driving technology, which includes the dubiously named Autopilot, is a starting point for the developers of the Tesla Bot. Impressive as this technology is, its proving to be less than fully reliable. Crashes and fatalities associated with Teslas Autopilot mode the latest having to do with the algorithms struggling to recognize parked emergency vehicles are calling into question the wisdom of releasing the tech into the wild so soon.

This track record doesnt bode well for humanlike robots that rely on the same technology. Yet this isnt just a case of getting the technology right. Teslas Autopilot glitches are exacerbated by human behavior. For example, some Tesla drivers have treated their tech-enhanced cars as though they are fully autonomous vehicles and failed to pay sufficient attention to driving. Could something similar happen with the Tesla Bot?

In my work on socially beneficial technology innovation, Im especially interested in orphan risks risks that are hard to quantify and easy to overlook and yet inevitably end up tripping up innovators. My colleagues and I work with entrepreneurs and others on navigating these types of challenges through the Risk Innovation Nexus, an initiative of the Arizona State University Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute and Global Futures Laboratory.

The Tesla Bot comes with a whole portfolio of orphan risks. These include possible threats to privacy and autonomy as the bot collects, shares and acts on potentially sensitive information; challenges associated with how people are likely to think about and respond to humanoid robots; potential misalignments between ethical or ideological perspectives for example, in crime control or policing civil protests; and more. These are challenges that are rarely covered in the training that engineers receive, and yet overlooking them can spell disaster.

While the Tesla Bot may seem benign or even a bit of a joke if its to be beneficial as well as commercially successful, its developers, investors, future consumers and others need to be asking tough questions about how it might threaten whats important to them and how to navigate these threats.

These threats may be as specific as people making unauthorized modifications that increase the robots performance making it move faster than its designers intended, for example without thinking about the risks, or as general as the technology being weaponized in novel ways. They are also as subtle as how a humanoid robot could threaten job security, or how a robot that includes advanced surveillance systems could undermine privacy.

Then there are the challenges of technological bias that have been plaguing AI for some time, especially where it leads to learned behavior that turn out to be highly discriminatory. For example, AI algorithms have produced sexist and racist results.

The Tesla Bot may seem like a small step toward Musks vision of superhuman technologies, and one thats easy to write off as little more than hubristic showmanship. But the audacious plans underpinning it are serious and they raise equally serious questions.

For instance, how responsible is Musks vision? Just because he can work toward creating the future of his dreams, whos to say that he should? Is the future that Musk is striving to bring about the best one for humankind, or even a good one? And who will suffer the consequences if things go wrong?

These are the deeper concerns that the Tesla Bot raises for me as someone who studies and writes about the future and how our actions impact it. This is not to say that Tesla Bot isnt a good idea, or that Elon Musk shouldnt be able to flex his future-building muscles. Used in the right way, these are transformative ideas and technologies that could open up a future full of promise for billions of people.

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But if consumers, investors and others are bedazzled by the glitz of new tech or dismissive of the hype and fail to see the bigger picture, society risks handing the future to wealthy innovators whose vision exceeds their understanding. If their visions of the future dont align with what most people aspire to, or are catastrophically flawed, they are in danger of standing in the way of building a just and equitable future.

Maybe this is the abiding lesson from dystopian robot-future sci-fi movies that people should be taking away as the Tesla Bot moves from idea to reality not the more obvious concerns of creating humanoid robots that run amok, but the far larger challenge of deciding who gets to imagine the future and be a part of building it.

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This weekend, a report revealed thatJeff Bezos hasinvested in Altos Labs, a startup that seeks to reverse aging and prolong human life.

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And as expected, Elon Musk, his "rival" in some businesses, could not remain silent. The founder of SpaceX responded to a tweet that reported on Bezos' new investment and the possible salary of the scientists, with his usual characteristic tone.

"And if it doesn't work, he's gonna sue death!" the billionaire tweeted.

It is no secret to anyone that since the founder of Blue Origin sued the US Space Agency (NASA) for awarding contracts to Musk's SpaceX instead of his aerospace company, the media relationship between the two billionaires has been somewhat tense.

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Elon Musk has been a prime target, Public Enemy #1, facing off against Big Oil, Big Auto, and Big Aerospace. He lives in the crosshairs of the Mainstream Media, Short Sellers,and Twitter Trolls. Yet, regardless of the ongoing FUD, an army of supporters have attempted to fight back. Recentlyan award-winning author, Douglas Coupland, has joined the fray with abrilliant editorial inThe Guardian.

First, it's worth recognizing that whether or not you like Elon Musk, he's done a lot of good for the air we breathe. Coupland writes, "Musk pretty much single-handedly shamed and forced the global auto industry to accelerate the electric car rollout by seven to 10 years. Yet people kvetch, and it makes me wonder if there is something fundamentally flawed about our era that it is almost impossible to get people to say something nice about pretty much anyone else."

Andin an age of divisive politricks, Elon doesn't fit neatly into any box. "The left doesnt like him because he doesnt fund them or show interest in their causes. And the right doesnt like him because he messes around with the stock market and doesnt take classical capitalism seriously," writes Coupland.

"For example, he thinks short selling the stock market should be banned. Musk donates to Democrats and Republicans only because its the cost of having a voice in government. He seems to see left versus right as an obsolete binary and instead focuses his altruistic energies on ecology and invention," headds.

Fact: he's smarter than you, get over it. "Musk has a huge IQ. He is measurably, scientifically, clinically and demonstrably the smartest person in any room anywhere. He can tell you the square root of your Amex card number at a glance. He can tell you, I dont know the square root of zinc. He has mild Aspergers, which prevents him from snagging on details and talking himself out of trying new things. Hes a perfect storm,"says Coupland.

Okay... butisn't all that tweeting about crypto kinda sketchy? According to Coupland, "Cryptocurrency does seem to be the one topic where Musk genuinely enjoys messing with peoples minds as well as with stock market regulators. I suspect that he doesnt have a stand on crypto at all my guess is that he sees cryptocurrencies as being interesting simply because they exist at all, like Klein bottles or those Japanese Kit-Kats in flavors such as pumpkin or green tea."

In the end, does Elon Musk even care about all these haters? Perhaps he'stoo busy to care. Coupland concludes, "[Elon] isnt trying to save the world, only to make it better. Musk has created three multibillion-dollar companies in four profoundly difficult fields in which to create anything. And these companies are successful, usually without help from the people we once considered gatekeepers. Like lots of people who do lots of things, hes too busy for elaborate introspection."

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The rivalry between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has surfaced on Twitter. Again. (Musk Photo: TED via YouTube; Bezos Photo: GeekWire / Kevin Lisota)

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has fired a fresh volley of tart tweets at Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the Blue Origin space venture, in the midst of a regulatory tussle over SpaceXs Starlink satellite constellation and Amazons competing Project Kuiper concept.

And this time, space lasers are involved.

The spark that lit Musks latest flame war came after SpaceX sought the Federal Communications Commissions approval to amend plans for sending up tens of thousands of Starlink satellites to provide global broadband service. The amendment would let SpaceX use its Starship mega-rocket, currently under development, to put its Gen2 satellites into an assortment of orbits.

In response, Amazon urged the FCC to turn back SpaceXs request, saying that the amendment proposes two mutually exclusive configurations for the Starlink constellation and leaves too many details unsettled. And in response to that, SpaceX told the FCC that Amazons filing was only the latest in its continuing efforts to slow down competition.

SpaceX also complained that Amazon was neglecting to resolve the FCCs concerns about Project Kuiper. The FCC gave conditional approval to Amazons plans more than a year ago provided that the Kuiper satellites didnt interfere with previously approved satellite systems, including Starlink. SpaceX noted that Amazon hasnt yet filed documents showing how it planned to avoid interference and ensure safe satellite operations.

More than 1,700 first-generation Starlink satellites have already been launched in accordance with previous FCC approvals, and the internet service is currently in expanded beta testing.

The Starlink spat comes amid the backdrop of legal protests that Bezos other big brainchild, Blue Origin, has filed against NASA for awarding a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to SpaceX. Because of Blue Origins lawsuit, NASA and SpaceX have suspended work to adapt Starship as the landing system for a crewed mission to the moon, which is currently set for as early as 2024. (That date seems increasingly unlikely, however, and not just because of the lawsuit.)

In todays tweets, Musk touched on the FCC filings as well as the lunar lander dispute, referring to Bezos without mentioning him by name:

Musk also referred to Bezos last week in a Twitter exchange, although he misspelled the billionaires name:

Weve reached out to Amazon and to Blue Origin for any response, but its unlikely that Bezos himself will engage in return fire. The most recent posting to Bezos Twitter account is a year and a half old, and previoustaunts from Musk have failed to get a rise. Nowadays, Bezos prefers to post Instagram updates, one of which said nice things about SpaceX. (Musk swore off Instagram in 2018, but his old account endures as a fan site.)

Meanwhile, the FCC has just posted a new filingin which Amazon seeks the commissions go-ahead to test prototype antennas for Project Kuiper at its labs in Redmond, Wash.

This grant would serve the public interest by enabling Amazon to further enhance and validate the components of the Kuiper System, the company said.

No Kuiper satellites have been sent into orbit yet, but in April, Amazon struck a deal with United Launch Alliance for nine launches that would use ULAs Atlas V rockets.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk likes the social policies in the state amid a furor over its adoption of a strict new abortion law, following its tighter laws on voting and a loosening of gun rules.

The state, which in recent years has convinced companies such as Toyota to move U.S. operations from suburban Los Angeles and lured Apple to invest in a massive new campus in Austin, wont see a decline in businesses moving to Texas, Abbott told CNBC today. He predicted the states policies on social issues, rather than scaring away companies, will become a draw, pointing to Musk, who moved to Austin in 2020. Currently, Tesla is building a new plant near Austin and SpaceX is expanding launch and production operations at its Starbase in Boca Chica, in south Texas.

Elon had to get out of California because in part of the social policies in California, Abbott said in the interview, noting that he speaks with Musk frequently. Elon consistently tells me that he liked the social policies in the state of Texas.

Musk, without directly commenting on Abbotts remarks, said on Twitter that he believes government should rarely impose its will upon the people, and, when doing so, should aspire to maximize their cumulative happiness. That said, I would prefer to stay out of politics.

Texas has been a powerful draw for corporations seeking lower taxes and lighter regulation, particularly relative to states such as California for many years. It remains to be seen whether controversial policies Abbott and Texas legislators have promoted dim the states appeal for companies. The states ability to attract some skilled workers may be a bit diminished owing to its abortion rule, however. A poll by PerryUndem found that 66% of college-educated workers surveyed said they would not take a job in a state with the restrictions imposed by Texas.

Along with restricting abortion, voter access and allowing anyone 21 or older to carry a handgun without training or a license, Abbott has also worked to block public schools from requiring masks to stem the spread of Covid-19 and supported limits on what public school teachers can discuss with regard to current events and systemic racism.

Though Musk has moved from Los Angeles, Teslas biggest auto plant is in Fremont, California, and SpaceX headquarters, for now at least, remain in Hawthorne, California.

During the early days of the pandemic last year, Musk grew infuriated when local health officials set restrictions on operations at the Fremont plant, leading him to rant in an earnings call about local stay-at-home efforts that he called fascist. Tesla later filed a suit against Alameda County over the restrictions in early May 2020, but soon dropped it.

Though says he prefers to stay out of politics, thats not always the case. Notably, he joined a business council created by Donald Trump in the early days of his presidency in 2017 (he quit the group in June 2017 after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord). More recently, he was joined at a tour of Teslas Giga Berlin plant in August by Armin Laschet, the leading conservative candidate seeking to succeed Angela Merkel as Germanys next chancellor. Construction of the Tesla plant there appears to be complete, yet the start of production of electric vehicles there remains unclear owing to delays in securing regulatory approvals to do so.

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Elon Musk, in all senses, is an influential man. Everything that this man does has multiple layers of intentions and truth behind it, be it something as simple as a tweet. Recently, another tweet graced the Twitter space by the SpaceX and Tesla owner. Elon wrote, Time is the ultimate currency. In the digital space, Elon is known as the foster father of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which started as a joke but witnessed an 11,000% rise, thanks to Elon.

With this tweet, netizens were forced to scratch their brains about what the tweet means and what Elon plans to do next. Since shared, the tweet is retweeted, with and without quotes, by more than 61,000 people and has gained almost 3.7 lakh likes.

Commenting on the statement catapulted by Elon in the social space, Kunal Shah, founder of CRED, said, Entropy is the only truth. Anchor/Producer at OANN Morning News, Stephanie Myers asked, What crypto should I invest in? Time is what we want most, but what we use the worst! said Amit Bhawani, the popular tech blogger.

One user hinted at Elons affection for Dogecoin and said, Idk Elon, I have got to say Dogecoin is the ultimate currency.

Many users also commented that the tweet is derived from one of the dialogues of the 2011 sci-fi In Time, starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake.

Elons Twitter handle and the tweets on it are an interesting phenomenon. His tweets have been very influential on the cryptocurrency rates in the past. For example, Bitcoins value once sky-rocketed when Elon stated that people can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin.

He recently volleyed a tart tweet at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos where he said that filing lawsuits against competitors is Bezos full-time job.

The tweet was in the wake of Amazon requesting FCC to dismiss Starlink Generation 2 amendment.

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Dogecoin climbed up to $ 0.32 today, with the general optimistic mood in the crypto money market. This is the first time in two weeks for Dogecoin. For Dogecoin, which maintains a market value of $ 40 billion, there has been talk of transitioning to proof of stake these days. The suggestion by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, that Dogecoin should not switch to PoS, brought this issue back to the agenda.

There is also the issue of updates for Dogecoin. The update, which will greatly increase the transaction speed and capacity in Dogecoin, is still in the works. It remains unclear when it will be put into operation.

With all this, the short-term outlook in Dogecoin is as follows:

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The self-made billionaire has always credited his father for his success. His father taught him about investing and introduced him to books.

The Berkshire Hathaway owner had met his second mentor, also a well-known economist, at Columbia University. From understanding market fluctuations to analysing them, Graham guided Buffett with his profound, yet simple, investment principles.

Talking about his third teacher, in his 2017 documentary 'Becoming Warren Buffett', he had shared that his wife - who passed away in 2004 - has helped him open up emotionally to the world.

Buffett ranks ninth in the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List 2021 with a net worth of $103.7 billion.

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The Harvard drop-out had credited the well-known investor for helping him deal with difficult situations. He also said Buffett taught him to always keep a long-term goal in mind.

Gates has also praised Buffetts efforts to simplify complex concepts that can help a layman understand better.

Earlier in August, Gates officially ended his 27-year-long marriage, and divorced former wife Melinda French three months after their first announcement. Various shocking revelations have come to the fore since the couple split.

Currently, Gates is at the fifth position in the 2021 Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List with a net worth of $133.2 billion.

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During a 2018 panel discussion at the George W Bush Presidential Centers Forum on Leadership, Jeff Bezos listed Warren Buffett, JPMorgan Chase Chairman Jamie Dimon and Disney CEO Bob Iger among his idols.

The Amazon founder said he has been a fan of Buffett since his early 20s, and loves to read everything he writes.

Bezos further praised Dimon for being a "terrific executive" at a "very complicated company."

Iger's quick wit and ability to fulfil long-term goals made him the wealthiest mans third pick.

Bezos tops the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List 2021 with $200.1 billion net worth.

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The SpaceXs VP of business development Jim Cantrell, also known as Tesla CEO's industry mentor, had shared with Esquire in 2012 that Musk used textbooks to teach himself rocket science. Musk also ensured he kept in touch with industry heavyweights.

When Musk was asked if he has had any mentor who had an influence on him at The Economic Club of Chicago in 2012, he was quick to reply, "I love reading biographies.

He said that he has read biographies and autobiographies of Apple founder Steve Jobs, the US founding father Benjamin Franklin, and inventors Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Issac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Musk has been edging close to Bezos at number two spot on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List 2021 with a net worth of $190.7 billion.

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The Apple founder had shared his pearls of wisdom with the self-made billionaire on developing a management team. He had advised him to focus on building a high quality team.

Soon after Jobs's death in 2011, Zuckerberg took to social media to thank him for being his mentor and a friend.

Zuckerberg has secured a place at the fourth place with $137.3 billion net worth in the 2021 Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List.

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Teachers' Day Special: Paying Tribute To Mentors Of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg - What's Life Without A Mentor - Economic Times