Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic
Future, Ashlee Vance
What surprised me the most about Elon is the determination
he had to learn about computers and technology since he was very young. Which
is also one of the most admiring things about him is that no matter what to him
or his family he kept on learning to improve himself mentally. I think that
least admirable thing about Elon Musk is that even after he was kicked out of his
CEO spot in PayPal he still invested in it afterwards. I would not be able to put
money into a company that I knew they pushed me out of my job. Elon Musk fought
diversity all through his life from being bullied while a kid, to being fired
for using the wrong coffee maker, to being told you are k=no longer the CEO of
your company, to having his first son die, to having multiple rockets explode,
divorcing his college sweet heart and told his company will never work. He has always
just reevaluated the situation and moved forward with new ideas and innovation
that will help save the world.
The competencies I noticed was that he left his Stanford PHD
after two days to build a company and even after being pushed out of multiple
companies and selling them off he still had future ideas and propositions to
follow.
The only part of the reading that was a little confusing was
the notion of the deflating American soul.
The two questions I would ask Elon Musk are:
Would leaving Earth
and going to Mars and eventually off into space actually save everyone in the
long run or are people going to be left behind somewhere along the way?
If you could take back
one piece of technology that exists right now back in to time to when you were
first an entrepreneur what would it be and why?
I would ask these two questions because I am curious about
his future idea of space travel for all of humankind and how he would change
time with a single technology and why that would be the most important to him.
Elon Musk would probably consider hard work a necessity for entrepreneurship
and innovation. I would definitely agree to this idea because without the handwork
of mathematicians and scientists we would not have the science and technology
that helps keep our society up and running even if it seems to be in the
background of your daily life.
Hey Zac! Elon Musk is a super interesting person to learn about! I was not aware that any of those things happened to him. It is super sad that his first son died and he divorced his college sweetheart but also super admirable that he pushed through those difficult times and still came out on top. I also didn't know that he still invested in PayPal after he was pushed out as CEO which I find surprising as well. Great job!
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