Steven Bink

Happy Birthday to the greatest entrepreneur of all time, @elonmusk What a trip around the sun it's been for this guy. In the last 12 months he unseated the President of the States, caught the world's biggest rocket booster with chopsticks, and launched the first pure vision driverless cars. Even for a man who has seen many crazy years, this one is next level. Elon faces more torment, hatred, and resistance than maybe anyone else on the planet. He is the favorite villain of do nothing losers who bravely call him names like "nazi" from behind their keyboards. If you pay too much attention to these idiots, it's easy to forget who he actually is. He's the guy who built his own rocket company from the ground up, achieving milestones in reusability that have pushed America's space capability forward by decades. He kickstarted a sustainable energy and transport revolution that has sent us on a path to a brighter future. He fought for free speech and is steering AGI in the right direction. He kick started the current humanoid robotics craze with Optimus. I could go on for a long time talking about his impact, but what really sets him apart is that he has an amazing heart. He's not driven by money or accolades, he's passionate about his work in a way that I've never seen in anyone else. You can feel it in the products. They are products that change peoples lives for the better. They are products that sometimes save peoples lives. It's not just that the products are fun to use, but you can feel that the teams behind them had fun making them and that shines through the product to the customer, across all his companies. You can love him, you can hate him, you can call him names or quote him... just about the only thing you can't do is ignore him. Because he changes things. Because one tweet from his phone can set the wheels of history in motion. The crazy thing to me is that despite everything he's done, it feels like he's just getting started. Happy Birthday Elon. I hope it's a great one, because you deserve it. You have changed my life in so many ways and will always be a living legend to me. I'm sorry for any times I've let you down, because I feel like we all owe you a lot. You really did it. I feel stupid for all the times I doubted you. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat" — Winston Churchill