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Elon Musk holds a special place amongst hackers. After growing up in a difficult
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family situation in South Africa, working his way in small jobs until reaching
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Los Angeles, teaching himself to code, and making hundreds of millions
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co-founding PayPal, he kept on building.
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It was a huge honor last month to have Elon [spend an hour in a Hack Club
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AMA](https://youtu.be/riru9OzScwk)—at one point he remarked we were “asking
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better questions than all the mainstream media.”
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Afterwards, Elon wanted to support Hack Club further.
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# Today, I’m proud to share: Elon Musk is donating $500,000 to Hack Club.
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In so many ways, this is a milestone for every Hack Clubber. 6 years ago, I
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started Hack Club as a 16-year-old programmer living on my own, scraping by,
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barely able to make rent. Now Elon Musk is one of our largest supporters.
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Elon is supporting us because we are a community of builders. When hackers see
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problems in the world, we don’t blame someone else: we try to take them on
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ourselves to solve. Elon is very selective about the nonprofits he supports and
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I’m proud Hack Club is one of them.
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So…how is Hack Club going to invest $500k? We want to use this to help 1000 more
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students start and join Hack Clubs in their communities. For those already in
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Hack Clubs, we look to you to help us make a more high-quality experience. We’re
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a lot of what we’ve already been doing (and [what I wrote about at the beginning
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of the year](https://zachinto2020.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/as-midnight-approaches/)):
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we’ll spend as little money as possible at all times, and we’ll hire a small
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number of diverse staff from video game engineers to media producers to make
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Hack Club better. We are pushing hard now to expand users of [Hack Club
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Bank](https://hackclub.com/bank/), and continuing to try and make the Hack Club
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Slack the best place to be a teenager on the intenet.
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We’ll have a proper announcement in a few weeks, but one thing we’re doing after
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winning the [Frank Grant](https://grant.frank.ly/) and now receiving Elon’s
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gift, is open sourcing our finances. Hack Club HQ has been running on Hack Club
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Bank since February and starting today, you can see our account publicly at
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https://bank.hackclub.com/hq. You can track how we spend every single dollar of
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Elon’s gift. Soon, we will also launch https://frank.ly/ on Hack Club’s
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website.
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Hack Club’s mission is to build a new generation of hackers. This starts in high
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school, where Hack Club students learn to be technically proficient, build their
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friend network, learn to raise and spend money, and develop into kind, curious,
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thoughtful, optimistic, and honest leaders.
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Elon Musk is now supporting you and your work, so go out and do amazing things.
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Elon can’t wait to see what you make.
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—Zach
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