The Engineer

The Meaning of Life 77 water. But remember that Elon is a big fan of facts and they say that the world is becoming a better and ...

The Meaning of Life 78 we should be is simple: We read newspapers both offline and online and watch the news on television. “The ...

The Meaning of Life 79 Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man. I realize that this is in some measure an ...

The Meaning of Life 80 President George Bush encouraged Apple to get computers into Russia to “foment revolution from below.”^3 ...

The Meaning of Life 81 Miles away from the launch platform, everyone in the VIP area could feel the vibrations as the Saturn V l ...

The Outsider Elon Musk wasn’t sure if he could work within the three areas that in the future will most affect the future of hu- ...

The Outsider 83 fit perfectly inside of electric vehicles. The large drawback with them is that it takes a long time to charge t ...

The Outsider 84 Stanford he wanted to start a career within Internet, the chairman thought Elon would fail. “Well, give it a sho ...

The Outsider 85 wanted to do that in an existing company, or if he had to create his own company.^324 Because he didn’t get a jo ...

The Outsider 86 the journey they talked about founding an online medical database.^320 Kimbal, who had studied at the Queen’s Un ...

The Outsider 87 They never expected to make a large sum of money from this Internet venture. Elon wanted to make enough money to ...

The Outsider 88 “It was Internet publishing, mapping, yellow pages, white pages, calendar. Basically, what my first company real ...

The Outsider 89 on continuing to provide new and innovative features in the years to come.^262 The 1996 version of the Zip2 webs ...

The Outsider 90 Internet service provider had their own office. To get a fast Internet connection to Zip2’s office, they drilled ...

The Outsider 91 was gonna be a fad,” Elon said.^27 One venture capitalist threw a phone book at them and asked, “Do you really t ...

The Outsider 92 is considered to have the best car design ever made, it’s also unreliable. Elon recalled that the “Jag” was like ...

The Outsider 93 board members also represented the clients, so Elon didn’t have much influence regarding the company’s future di ...

The Outsider 94 merge Zip2 with Altavista to compete with Yahoo.^319 But Elon was angry at the investors. He thought they sold t ...

Joining the Mafia Elon was bored. But as we’ve seen before, boredom can lead to great things. “It’s not that I’m a workaholic, I ...

Joining the Mafia 96 Wall Street with an entrepreneurial company. “Something about the culture of startups, at least at this poi ...