years later, now manufactures launch vehicles that are being tested and
used by organizations such as NASA.
As Musk’s mother once said “He goes into his brain, and then you just
see he is in another world. He still does that. Now I just leave him be
because I know he is designing a new rocket or something.”
Musk once said on space travel:“There’s a fundamental difference, if
you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring
civilization, that’s out there exploring the stars … compared with one
where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction
event.”
TESLA
But, it was in 2003 that Musk took a big gamble on the future of the car
industry and decided it was ripe for disruption. Tesla Motors was born
and while it has taken a while to get off the ground and the broader car
industry poured scorn on him in the early years the things about
entrepreneurs is they know how to play the long game. Today the
company has laid out plans to expand its electric car charge stations
across North America and Musk’s 32% share of the business is
estimated to be worth about $18 billion.
On Tesla he once said: “If something is important enough, even if the
odds are against you, you should still do it.”
but soon had a falling out with the Board over the CEO’s role. Compaq
eventually bought the company (Zip2) for US$ 307 million of which
Musk received $22 million.
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