At thirty-one, Elon held a check for one hundred eighty million dollars.

Instead, Elon invested one hundred million dollars into a rocket venture.

He poured another seventy million dollars into a struggling electric car startup.

Friends sent him videos of rockets exploding to change his mind.

Elon replied, 'If something is important enough, you still try.'

Even before that money came, he had already flown to Moscow to buy rockets.