Back in the day, a 17-year-old kid landed in Montreal with basically nothing—roughly 2,500 Canadian dollars (about 2,000 USD), one bag stuffed with books, another with clothes. That's it. No connections, no safety net, just guts and a couple of suitcases.

Fast forward to now, and that same person is shaking up industries from electric vehicles to space exploration—and yeah, even sending crypto markets into a frenzy with a single tweet.

The gap between showing up in a foreign country with pocket change and becoming one of the most influential figures in tech and finance? That's the kind of trajectory that reminds you anything's possible when you bet on yourself early.