Kimbal Musk

Elon Musk is, from my point of view, one of the most important character in my generation. He created Tesla, a company that develops electrics cars, Paypal, a intelligent and useful way to pay by internet. He also created Zip2, a program that he define as a primitive Google Maps that meets Yelp. The most important of all his projects is SpaceX. This company/project is suppose one day to help the human race to move on Mars. He also developed SolarCity, a company that produce solar panels so they…

If I was driving from Maine to California, I would drive in a car with Elon Musk, (probably a Tesla). I choose him for many reasons, I believe that traveling with Elon Musk would allow me to better myself by observing how hard working he is. I would also stay entertained due to how smart he is, and how that would allow me to have many conversations with him. The last, and most important reason I would travel with Elon Musk is how passionate he is and how he takes an uncommon and innovative…

Musk certainly have been through a lot of things until he became the 87th world’s richest person in the world. He was born in South Africa 28 june1971, obtained Canadian citizenship on 1989, and eventually became an American citizen on 2002. He is the founder of Tesla Motors, co-founder of PayPal and the CEO of Space-X industry who aiming to colonize Mars in the future. Even though Musk had terrible experience from his early childhood, he was able to become a successful businessman by will power…

Elon Musk is a man that will forever change the way of future of technology. With the recent success of Tesla, it is almost unheard for one to not know about them. Elon Musk has changed the automobile scene. Musk has created a new genre of cars that will grow later in the future, but Musk’s life has not always been successful. From growing up in South Africa, Musk was not able to have an exciting childhood with technology, and not too much money . Other than school, his day mostly consisted of…

all have one thing in common: their South African-born leadership. Elon Musk is at this point a name known by people young and old across many disciplines, whether in business, investing, or engineering. His net worth is estimated at $11.4 billion as of October 31st, 2016, making him the 94th wealthiest person in the world (Forbes, Elon Musk). His companies also share the goal of revolutionizing how and where, mankind lives. Musk forms companies with the intent to solve a problem that he sees…

before it can reach any form of success. They embrace this fact and attack it with hesitation. Successful technologist and engineer, Elon Musk, was asked if he ever thought about quitting after his third consecutive failure with the Falcon 1 rocket. His response was “Never. I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated” (SpaceX). After Musk was quoted, he put everything on the line with a fourth rocket launch which resulted in success. Musk’s statement through his…

Elon Musk has never been shy to spend an exuberant amount of money in order to fulfill his ambition. Musk spent over $100 million in SpaceX, over $70 million in Tesla Motors, and over $10 million in Solar City upon entry into these markets without foreseeable returns (Vance, 2015). Musk dedicates large sums of money towards creating production facilities. Making up for the equipment expenditure relied on profits made from the Tesla electric vehicles and investor confidence (Vance, 2015). The…

brainchild of Silicon Valley engineers. The founding partnership between Martin Eberhart and Marc Tarpenning expanded to include fellow engineer, Ian Wright and product designer, Malcolm Smith. Several rounds of significant capital funding began when Elon Musk provided the initial financial investment, and became the chairman of the board in 2014. The team “wanted to prove that people didn’t need to compromise to drive electric – that electric vehicles can be better, quicker, and more fun to…

Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa on the date of June 28, 1971. He is composed of three nationalities, South African, Canadian, and American. Elon lived an excruciating childhood. Musk was a ¨bookish” and awkward young boy who gained an interest into computers. His father wasn't the best, he was abusive and strict with his children. In addition, he was bullied during school. It was said that Elon´s best friend gave away his location and he was then beaten, in some other cases…

employees, like Martin Luther King, Jr. did. Without repercussions entrepreneurs like Jean-Pierre Clamadieu can create a pool of shared ideas that will help Solvay become a more successful and varied company. Similar to Jean-Pierre Clamadieu Elon Musk encourages his employees at SpaceX to innovate and share ideas as he says “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” This entrepreneurial quality of encouraging innovation can be implemented into any…