Elon Musk&#x27;s dad was an engineer, and his mother was a model. Even if assuming he wasn&#x27;t crazy wealthy, he was at least partially exposed to engineering, and brushed with educated people from an early age.<p>Not to mention, from Wikipedia <i>&quot;In 1995, Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a web software company, with US$28,000 of their father&#x27;s (Errol Musk) money.&quot;</i><p>I adjusted for inflation, that was $44k in today&#x27;s dollars - quite a substantial amount of money to be gifted from a parent. Plus in 1995 the very idea that the web not only existed but had investment potential was still limited to tech geeks.<p>So at a time when I literally spent 2 full years furiously arguing to my own dad about why he should simply allow me to hook up my modem using the household phone line, somewhere else in the world is Elon Musk - smart, exceedingly well educated, born in a year with a small generational cohort, along with his also ambitious brother - cashing a generous $28k check from his engineer dad to build, at the exact perfect time in history, a website business in a space that has been duplicated literally thousands of times since, and later sells it for $307 Million. How many people even have the opportunity to nail a combo like that?