马斯克年轻时的罕见采访，当时同居的女朋友也一起出镜了。

他回顾了自己刚创业时的窘迫。
为了省钱租200美元一个月的办公室，屋顶漏水，脏得不行，他舍不得另外租房，就在那住了三四个月，洗澡就去社区中心。

为了省网费，他们还在地板上打了个洞，直接接楼里互联网服务商的服务器。

【The not so glamorous startup days】

Before the multi-billion-dollar valuations, the rockets, and the global headlines, there was just a 24-year-old kid trying to keep his code online.

A rare early interview clip of a young Elon Musk has been making the rounds, capturing the raw, deeply unglamorous reality of building his first startup, Zip2, back in 1995.

It's a stark reminder of what the "grind" actually looks like before the world notices.

Here is what "building from zero" looked like for him:

The $200/Month Office-Home: Unable to afford both a place to live and a place to work, he rented a tiny, leaky office space and simply lived out of it for three to four months, sleeping on a couch.

The Community Center Routine: Because the cheap office lacked a shower, his morning routine involved walking to a local community center just to get cleaned up before the workday started.

The Internet Hack: In a move of pure, cash-strapped resourcefulness, he literally drilled a hole through the floorboards to run a cable directly into the building's internet server provider downstairs, bypassing a commercial bill he couldn't afford.

The Takeaway: It’s easy to look at massive tech empires today and assume their success was always inevitable. But almost every breakthrough started as a series of scrappy, uncomfortable compromises just to survive another week.

True resourcefulness isn’t about having the best tools; it’s about a relentless willingness to figure it out with whatever you have available.

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