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The Chronicle of Elon Musk In 1995 he unsuccessfully applied for a job at Netscape. In 1996 he was ousted as CEO from a company he founded — Zip2. In 1999 the first product of PayPal was voted as one of the ten worst business ideas. In 2000 he was ousted from his company — PayPal — while on a honeymoon. In that same year, he almost died from cerebral malaria. In 2001 the Russians refused to sell him rockets he wanted to use to send mice or plants to Mars. In 2002 the Russians turned him down again — This is what gave him the impetus to start SpaceX. In 2006 his first-ever rocket launch ended in an explosion and millions of dollars lost. In 2007 his second rocket launch ended in an explosion and millions of dollars wasted again. In 2008 his third and critical rocket lunch which also had NASA satellites onboard failed and exploded during lunch. In December of that same year, both Tesla and SpaceX were on the brink of bankruptcy. In 2013 his rocket failed during landing in the ...