Elon Musk - genius or madman?

Elon Musk :- A controversial businessman, a visionary who chases his dreams, a boss who does not talk in words. And also the father of five sons and a guy who wonders how much time a woman needs a week. "Maybe ten hours? That would be the minimum?" We publish excerpts from the book "Elon Musk. Biography of the creators of Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX".

-Thanks to SpaceX, Musk has become a competition for the giants of the US military and industry, including Lockheed Martin and Boeing. It also competes on the international arena, mainly with Russia and China

-SpaceX has made a name for itself in the industry as a cheap supplier. But this in itself is not enough to win. The space industry requires entanglement in a network of politics, cronyism and protectionism that undermine the foundations of capitalism. Steve Jobs also struggled with them as he struggled with the music industry, trying to market iPods and iTunes. Capricious Luddists from the music industry is a pickax compared to Muska's enemies who build weapons every day and decide about the emergence of new states.

-SpaceX tested reusable rockets that could carry loads into space and land precisely on their launchers on Earth. If a company were able to improve this technology, it would have done a devastating blow to the competition and almost certainly would push some of the old industry out of the industry by establishing the United States as a leader in the space industry for manned and unmanned space vehicles. This, according to Muska, caused him a lot of fierce enemies. - A list of people who would not mind if I suddenly disappeared, he keeps growing - he said. - My family is afraid that the Russians will murder me.

Thanks to Tesla Motors, Musk wanted to change the way cars are made and sold, simultaneously creating a global fuel distribution network. Instead of hybrids, which in his opinion constitute a compromise partly acceptable, he fights for the production of fully electric cars, which people want and which push the technological boundaries a step further. Tesla does not sell them in showrooms, but in the network and Apple-style stores located in exclusive shopping centers. It also does not provide huge service gains, because an electric car does not require oil change or other maintenance procedures necessary for traditional cars. The direct sales model adopted by Tesla was a huge offense for dealers who were used to haggling with customers and earning excessive fees. Fast charging stations are now operating along many major highways in the US, Europe and Asia, allowing you to recharge your energy for hundreds of miles almost every twenty minutes. They are powered by solar panels and free for Tesla car owners. While most of the country's infrastructure is falling into disrepair, Musk decides to build a futuristic transport system that will allow the United States to defeat the rest of the world. His vision embodied in life seems to derive from the legacy of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller

Thanks to SolarCity, Musk has built the largest company that installs and finances solar panels for individual and business customers. He helped create an idea for the company, and now he is the president, while his cousins ​​Lyndon and Peter Rive are in charge of running it. The company managed to reduce prices, thanks to which it has become one large service in itself. At a time when many companies that pursue the maintenance of the technological process bankrupted, Musk created two that achieved the world's greatest success. Powerful empire Musk Co. with a net worth of around ten billion dollars, employing thousands of employees and the right people in leadership positions, has changed Muska into one of the richest people in the world.

A visit to Musk Land gave some light on how Muska managed to achieve it all. While the talk about "placing a man on Mars" may seem crazy to some, he has gained a unique advertising slogan for his business. It is a vast goal to determine the principle around which all his actions focus. Employees of all three companies know this, as well as the fact that they strive for the impossible every day. When he sets unreal goals, invents his employees and forces them to work beyond strength, it is known that this has - at some level - the success of the mission to reach Mars. Some love him, others hate him, but they remain strangely loyal to his passion and sense of mission. Muska managed to develop what so many entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley lack, namely a concrete worldview. He is a possessed genius following the most wonderful path that anyone would dream of. He is less a director chasing wealth than a general commanding troops wishing to secure victory. While Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share the baby's pictures, Musk wants ... well ... save humanity from voluntary or accidental annihilation

Musk - finds little time to relax, but when he finds him, he parties with a swing equal to all his other activities. He rented an English castle for about thirty people for his thirtieth birthday. From the second night to six in the morning there was a game similar to the "hide and seek" called "sardines", in which one person escapes and hides, while the other seek. Another event took place in Paris. Musk and brothers and cousins ​​got up at midnight and decided to ride around the city on bikes until six o'clock in the morning. They slept all day and in the evening they got into the Orient Express, where they did not sleep all night again. The avant-garde group of artists called the Lucent Dossier Experience spelled the train from the palm of your hand and performed acrobatic performances. When the next day the train reached Venice, the Muska family ate dinner, and then rested on the hotel's patio, admiring the Grand Canal until nine in the morning. Musk also loves costume balls. On one he appeared in the guise of a knight and fought with a dwarf in Darth Vader's suit instead of a sword fighting ... with an umbrella.

For one of his last birthday events, Musk invited fifty people to the castle - or at least the best American imitation castle - in Tarrytown, New York. The leitmotif of the event was the Japanese steampunk, which sounds like a wet dream of every science fiction fan: a mix of corsets, leather and machine worship. Musk disguised himself as a samurai.

The celebrations included a performance titled "The Mikado," a Victorian comedy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan with action set in Japan in a small theater in the city center. "I'm not sure if the Americans understood her," said Riley, whom Musk had married again after his plan failed ten hours a week. All, however, liked what happened later. Back to the castle Musk put on an eye patch, he was pushed against the wall, in both hands he held balloons and another between his legs. Knife thrower went to work. "I've seen him before, but I was worried he might have a worse day," Musk said. "Still, I was hoping to get one nucleus, not both. The watchers were amazed and worried about his safety. "It was bizarre," said Bill Lee, a technology investor and one of Muska's close friends. "But Elon believed in a scientific explanation of everything.

Elon Musk - Visionary, genius, unbearable boss, the most insolent entrepreneur of the Silicon Valley, one of the richest people on earth. Man put in a line with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Steve Jobs.

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