Musk’s early career is also not without controversy, in that he has been involved in a few company takeovers and shareholder agreements that have gone wrong, including Zip2 (a web-based information service) and X.com (the precursor to PayPal). However, he is also seen to possess little empathy for others and to take credit for breakthroughs not his own, leaving some disgruntled ex-employees and managers in his wake. An unrelenting taskmaster, he expects a similar commitment from his employees, and manages to hire and inspire some of the very best aerospace and automotive engineers on the planet to meet deadlines that to most people would seem impossible. How has Musk achieved so much to date? It does take an exceptional individual, and we learn that Musk is highly intelligent and has the physical and mental stamina to work punishing hours (even 100 hours a week!), travelling extensively as well. These two businesses have made significant impacts on the automobile, energy and space industries in the short time they have been around, as has SolarCity, the solar power installation company Musk helped to start with his cousins.
Thanks to numerous innovations in engineering and technology, Tesla has successfully brought down the cost and improved the viability of battery-powered cars, while SpaceX has slashed the costs associated with safe space travel. Hence, his drive to form Tesla Motors and SpaceX. So what are Elon Musk’s dreams? Through Ashlee Vance, a business journalist at Bloomberg, we learn that they are to make electric cars the dominant automobile on the planet in order to help save the environment, and, more importantly for Musk (but farfetched to many others), to make it possible for humans to colonise Mars as a “fallback” in case Earth is no longer a healthy option. Rather, you should read this biography because it provides an outstanding lesson in what one individual can achieve through the application of tremendous persistence and passion in pursuit of his dreams. You shouldn’t read Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future because it chronicles the very interesting life of a South African who has made good abroad (his net worth is currently estimated by Forbes at just over US$12 billion).
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