Traits you'll need on the way Bernardo Moya Who are your heroes? @Bernardo_Moya
Elon Musk From Paypal to the Stars
Elon Musk is a man with vision. Born in 1971 he is co-founder of Paypal. But that's not all. He also co-founded Tesla Motors and founded the space company, Spacex, which designed the Falcon 9/Dragon, a private successor to the spaceshuttle. Musk showed his talent early on. As a 10 year old boy in South
Africa he bought his first computer and by the age of 12 sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blastar. After graduating from university and inspired by innovators
such as Nikola Tesla, Musk considered three areas he wanted to get into: the internet, energy and space. His projects over the following years saw each realised. In
1995 he started Zip2, which provided online content publishing software for news organisations, with his brother Kimbal Musk, which they sold for US$341 million in 1999. His next project was X.com, which later took over Paypal and
was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock in 2001. He then founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), in 2002, which was awarded a $1.6 billion NASA for 12 flights to the International Space Station, replacing the Space Shuttle. For Musk, this is the starting point of his goal of starting to colonise the stars. He even has plans for a greenhouse to grow crops on Mars. But he hasn't neglected Earth. Concerned with ecology, he also has developed the high performance Tesla Roadster, a car that runs on electricity and he has also conceived the idea of Solar City, designed to harness solar power.
In years to come, I believe Elon Musk will be one of the great inspirational names. The work he is doing is changing the world - and potentially much beyond it, too! Bernardo Moya
Nick Vujicic Life Without Limbs
Nick Vujicic was born in Australia in 1982 with tetra amelia syndrome, meaning he has no arms or legs, one toeless foot and the other with only two toes. Nick struggled with life as a child. He was bullied school and
by the age of 10 was ready to drown himself. As he says, the only thing that held him back was his love for his parents A massive change came in his life when he was shown
a newspaper story by his mother about a man living with a severe disability. It made Vujicic realize he wasn't unique in his struggles and he began to embrace who he was. From that moment on, he started to actively take charge
however he could in his life. He learned to write using a special pen grip designed for his two toes, he also learned how to use a computer and type. He even learned how to throw tennis balls, play a drum pedal, get himself a glass of water, comb his hair, brush his teeth, answer the phone and shave. As he grew older, he was elected captain of his school and
began working on fund-raising events for local charities and disability campaigns. By age 17, he was giving talks at his prayer group. He soon
began a non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs and now gives motivational talks and raises money to help disabled people. On 12 February 2012, he married his fiancée Kanae Miyahara. Nick Vujicic's example is one of the great inspirational stories for anyone who feels they are at a disadvantage in life.
For Nick, faith, love, gratitude and an amazing attitude turned his life around. It's something we all can learn from. Bernardo Moya
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.