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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 ...

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight -- A short Review

'Shoe Dog' captured along with Nike shoes displaying the famous 'Swoosh' logo. Nike -- a brand that has became a phenomenon not too long ago and has remained that way ever since then. The famous Nike 'Swoosh' that you see in the aforementioned logo or the generation-defining 'Just Do It' slogan -- they became a worldwide craze. A lot of know about these shoes and the company that makes them, right? But how many of us know about the person who created this company and the story behind it? Not too many, I'm sure. Phil Knight, the creator of Nike, is not a very social person and hadn't really ever much interested in talking about his story... until he decided to write this book. The book came out a few years ago but I only had the chance to read it this year. In short, it is brilliant. Not something that you'd expect from a multi-billionaire mogul, surprisingly. The book is so rooted and grounded that I sometimes questioned why he ne...