Biography: Elon Musk

Quite recently I had read a book about Elon Musk, Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future, by Ashlee Vance. The book was so interesting that it made me write on Elon Musk and how he has been described in the book. Ashlee Vance has indeed made a good enquiry about Elon Musk and has delivered the information wonderfully in this book making it very interesting.

The book starts with Ashlee Vance describing his troubles in finding about Elon Musk. However, I am not going to explain much about the book but rather talk more about Elon Musk…

How great he is and how he became one of the world’s best entrepreneur…

Elon Musk, a small poor boy back then, was born in Pretoria, South Africa in June 28, 1971.

Even from a small age Musk had great dreams. His dreams started getting true when he published the Blaster video game in 1984.

He had a great time in colleges and universities as he studied more and turned out to be a genius.

In the year 1995, he founded Zip2, a software with his brother Kimbal Musk. And his inventions continued- X.com in 1999, Paypal and a lot others. As he grows better and better, he sells Paypal to Ebay and forms a great company later in 2002, SpaceX.

That started his time of triumph. It grew well. He had great plans for future. His plans were always ahead of other space companies. His main objective was going to Mars and live there. He worked a lot to do that. And in the year 2003 he gives another kick off! He founded The Tesla Motors.

Things went good in the begining but sooner he started losing his money and faced great loses in the company. The loses reached too high that he ended up in a situation to choose between the two! The failure of the rockets launched by SpaceX aided this great loss. But never giving up his efforts, Musk tried again and again and sooner his good old success days were back.

With his inventions increasing continuously, Musk has proved to the world that the impossible could be done if efforts were put. He turned out to be a great entrepreneur.

As I read through the book reading about his continuous losses and failures and realised that he never gave up, I found out that Elon Musk was indeed a great entrepreneur!

Today, he is one of the richest people of the world and a role-model for every hard working entrepreneur…

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