Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashley Vance -- A short review

Elon Musk is the closest successor to the fame and vision that has so widely been attributed to the late Steve Jobs. He is, in other words, bringing sexy back to the world of Space and Automobile industries, along with quite a few others. What made him choose this path and what made him the person that he is today? Read on to find out.

Elon Musk was born in South Africa and then moved to Canada to further his studies. From there, he moved to the United States of America to University of Pennsylvania to get degrees in business and physics. At the age of 24, he founded a startup called 'Zip2' which was later on bought by 'Compaq' for $307 million. Musk recieved $22 million for his 7 percent shares.

After that he started working on 'X.com' with $10 million from his Zip2 payout. It was a payment gateway and an online financial services company which was later on merged with 'PayPal'. PayPal was then bought by eBay for $1.5 billion of which Musk received $165 million, as he was the largest shareholder of the company at that time.

He invested $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla, and $35 million into SolarCity.

The book talks at length about how Elon has always possessed a great mind ever since he was a child. There are very few people who can manage to run one company successfully but he has managed to do that quite a few times with multiple companies, actually. He is a multi-billionaire now but he was also once struggling to keep his companies afloat but what kept him going and got him through was his vision to change the world, to make it a better place and to find an even better place for the survival of the human kind.

Definitely pick this book up to read in-depth about the man, the myth, the legend -- Elon Musk.

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