Rob Sears - Elon Musk’s: Billionaire School

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First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2022 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

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This digital edition first published in 2022 by Canongate Books

Copyright Rob Sears, 2022

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Contents

Welcome to Billionaire School

Most business schools promise an enriching experience, but not many can guarantee that their students will soon be among the worlds wealthiest people.

Elon Musks Billionaire School is different because the tips and home exercises in our curriculum are based on the proven strategies of todays richest and most visionary tech billionaires, including Elon Musk himself.

That means we can guarantee you a ten-figure net worth and at least one admiring profile piece in a major newspaper within thirty days of completing our course.

Youre on the verge of the super-rich life of your dreams. Picture it: youll be running either 69 or 420 different major tech companies at once. Your inventions will be so smart theyll invent more inventions. Every single one of your shower thoughts will spawn new industries, currencies, branches of law...

Some readers may be sceptical that we can really deliver on these fantastic claims. To remove any doubt, wed like to share a few of the Frequently Asked Questions we sometimes get from prospective billionaires during our open days, along with our responses.

Q: How could a few lessons possibly make me a billionaire?

You should believe in yourself more! Just by opening this book youve demonstrated a proactive attitude to wealth accumulation. In fact, give or take $500 million, youre halfway there already.

Let us try to lay out how straightforward it can be using a chart that many of our students find helpful.

You are currently at point 1 on the graph you might not have much money but, all being well, youve plenty of time ahead of you. If youre young, you might even be a time billionaire, with over a billion seconds left to spend however you please! All you have to do now is convert your remaining time on earth into dollars at a sufficiently quick rate that you can reach your target WAD (wealth at death) before you become time bankrupt and expire (point 2).

Success is that easy!

Q: Ive heard that Elon Musk had a privileged up bringing. What if I dont have the right back ground or education to be a billionaire?

It is true that many billionaires fit quite a narrow demographic. Musk is one of nine white men in the worlds top ten richest people according to Forbes.

However, the Billionaire School is working to ensure that tomorrows extreme inequality is more diverse and inclusive. We offer grants, scholarships and mentoring programmes for both non-white and female candidates who have demonstrated a genuine interest in becoming billionaires (i.e. an accumulated net worth of $50 million or more).

Q: I dont have any money. Ive got family responsibilities and a job I cant afford to leave. How do I even get started?

Please note that we also offer hardship bursaries. To apply, simply find our stand in the VIP section at the Davos conference.

Even if you dont receive a bursary, consider what really matters in life. Your family might not see you so often, but wouldnt they be happy if you came home one day with a billion dollars and an electric nanny?

As for your regular-paying job, you may not actually have to leave it. With hard work, anyone can accumulate a billion dollars. Youll just have to be prepared to work weekends and take on overtime. And continue doing so for 15,000 years.

Admittedly, founding your own start-up might be a more practical route.

Q: What is your schools connection with Elon Musk?

The Billionaire School is not officially endorsed by Elon Musk, as he has not replied to our emails, but his influence on our teaching and philosophy cannot be overstated. To us, he represents the pinnacle of what a billionaire can be. Not only does he have the most, he also gives the most, sharing with the world his technologies, his considered views on the issues of the day, his optimism for humanitys multi-planetary future and his potent genetic material.

Q: If all this was really as easy as you claim, wouldnt everyone be a billionaire?

Being a billionaire has come to be regarded as something thats somehow elite, exclusive or out of reach but that couldnt be further from the truth. If you spend time with billionaires in their private jets or while theyre getting blood transfusions from youll find they are just like us. The only difference is that theyve worked harder and smarter.

Today, the lives of the tech billionaires are public. Anybody can follow their example and emulate what they have and if you dont, you only have yourself to blame. In fact, we would go further: billionaires are the people saving our world, so if youre not rich, or at least intent on getting rich, youre not a good person.

At the Billionaire School we believe everyone should be focused on building their personal asset base, through any means possible. Yes, your path to wealth may require you to build a demonic AI, or ravage the environment and exacerbate climate change but its only through the money you make that you can also hope to solve the terrifying problems you have created.

Thats why if you want to be a billionaire theres nothing wed find more enriching than to teach you.

Not a guarantee. See lesson 16, Promise the moon.

Beyond the tech world, we are also inspired by non-tech tycoons such as old-school French fashion magnate, Bernard Arnault, who has been #1 richest person as recently as 2021 but otherwise stays out of the limelight (he has a fortieth as many Google hits as Musk). Or #59, billionaire Qin Yinglin, with his pig-breeding empire. Although our school draws chiefly on the examples of high-profile tech billionaires, we believe the principles we teach can help students dominate any industry they choose.

Visualising your goal

To help you decide on a personal financial goal and track your progress as you work through this book, weve created the visualisation tool opposite.