This book tells the inspiring and exciting story of Elon Musk, who emigrated from South Africa to Canada when he was 17 and founded some of the world's most visionary companies. He got his starting capital from selling Zip2, an online city guide, to Compaq. He then founded X.com, an online payment service that later merged with PayPal and revolutionized online payment. With SpaceX, he made space travel affordable again through revolutionary ideas: he developed spaceships that landed back on earth and have since transported people into space, one day taking them to Mars and beyond. Since 2004, he has been shaking up the automobile industry with Tesla (which was not founded by him, but a year earlier by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning), and he has made electric cars suitable for the masses.
Elon Musk's story shows what people can achieve when they set themselves high goals and pursue them with an unconditional will and uncompromising commitment. Musk has repeatedly put his entire fortune at risk and has never let setbacks deter him.
The book addresses both his good and bad character traits, such as his lack of social skills and his expectation that all his employees show at least as much workaholic commitment as he does.
The biography is from 2015, and what Musk has achieved since then is no less impressive: With OpenAI, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, he has founded three more companies, and in May 2020, SpaceX was the first private company to fly people into space.
🎧 Suitable as an audiobook? Yes, absolutely.
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