Book SummaryElon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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.