[easywood]

Elon Musk, whose father owned but a humble emerald mine, and was driven to school in a Rolls Royce? Or another, poor Elon Musk?

[WalterBright]

Since you know so much about this, how much did funding did Elon's father give him to start his businesses?

[acuozzo]

Funding doesn't matter as much as mindset.

If you know you can always go live with your rich family, then the cost of failure is pretty close to 0, so you can repeatedly take big risks until one of them pays off.

Worst case? You end up a trust-fund brat.

[piva00]

Maybe you need to read it coming directly from Elon's dad then? [0][1]

[0] https://futurism.com/elon-musk-dad-emerald-mine

[1] https://www.the-sun.com/news/7911051/elon-musks-dad-errol-em...