ELON MUSK BY ASHLEE VANCE

I always  wanted to discover  the man behind companies like :Tesla ,Space X and SolarCity.Ashlee Vance brought me the chance to discover entirely his evolution for the man who wants to save our Planet and colonise Mars.

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria South Africa.Being child he wanted to follow the American dream.At 17 years old he left South Africa and moved to Canada.Elon enrolled at Queen University in Kingston Ontario in 1989.

His first entrepreneurial experience started in 1995  when he launched ‘’ Global Link Information Network’’ after spent some time in Silicon Valley in entership  renamed Zip 2.In February 1999  Compaq Computer offered 307 mil$ for Zip 2 and Musk got 22 mil $ for this deal.

Another startup that he launched was Paypal  ,eBay offered 1,5 billion $ and Musk got 250 mil $ .

Since he was a child had a passion for rockets.Probably to most challenging project that he is involving is Space X.Tom Mueller  was one of the first person that helped Musk and developing and creating rockets.After many falling attemps on 22 of May 2012 Falcon 9  rocked off from Kennedy Space Center In Cape Canaveral Florida rached to International  Space Station .Is first the first time on a private company  dock at the ISS.

Space X declared that would send unmanned mission to the Red Planet b y 2018 with human mission still on schedule for 2025.

In the fall of 2003 Musk meet Straubel come with the idea of an electric car.Straubel showed Musk ‘’Tzero’’  which went from 0-60 miles/hour in 4,9 seconds and so  Tesla  starting to take shape.Von Holzhausen joined Tesla didn’t know that the company was a verge of collapse.In may 2009 Tesla had been unveiled the Model S.Daimler acquired a 10 % stake in Tesla for 50 millions $ and the Departament of Energy offered 465 million loan .On 29 June 2010 Tesla went public it raised 226 million .

In conclusion I recommend  for everyone who aspire to be an entrepreneur it’s very motivating and inspiring.Elon Musk is not only a genius entrepreneur but also a good manager who has the quality to  recruit good people.From making rockets to electric cars he is visionary that he is changing our world,hard worker close to fanatism we can include him in the select group that changed our world togheter with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.What admire most of him is the syntagm that everything is possible if  you have passion and never never give up is the quality that fascinated me.