Book Summary - Elon Musk

Chapter 1 - Introduction

• “Do you think I’m insane?"
• One goal. Make mankind an interplanetary species by colonizing mars
• Very risk taking - pump almost all the money into new ventures
• Extremely busy, hardworking. Expect employee to be the same.. including working discipline.
• Split time only between work and children. Not enough time to maintain girlfriend or wife (divorced twice now)

Chapter 2 - Africa

• Really adventurous and enterprising grandparents an parents. Engineering and business (chiropractic clinic)
• Father is an engineer but splitted with mother. Elon had an unhappy stay with him during teenage years.
• High school - extremely nerd, got bullied. But still has "intensity" since he was a kid.
• Went to canada through mother citizenship, then US. Life got much better in college, again having many mini-businesses.