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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

By: Ashely Vance

Entrepreneur Book Presentation

By: Sachin Maharaj

The Book

  • Author: Ashely Vance
  • Publisher: Harper Collions
  • Date Published & Copyright: 2015

Who is

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk

Founding member of Zip2, CTO, Chairman

Founder of X.com, CEO

Founder & CEO of SpaceX

Largest Shareholder of Tesla, CEO and Co-founder

Chairman and Largest Shareholder in Solar City

Pages: 60, 61, 77, 84, 86, 89, 113, 154, 320

Personal History/ Background

  • Born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa
  • Maye and Errol Musk
  • 1984 PC and Office Technology source code competition
  • Teenage Years
  • Canada

Personal History/ Background

Pages: 25, 32, 39, 36, 35, 23, 41, 42, ,49, 53 - 55

SpaceX

SpaceX

Turning

Point

Turning Point

1. Ousted from PayPal

2. Mars Society

3. NASA Website

4. Life to Mars Foundation

5. Trying to buy Russian ICBM

Pages: 98, 99, 101, 103 - 104, 112, 105 - 108

The Start

Starting a Rocket Company

"The areospace companies had little comptetion and tended to make supremely expensive products that achieved maxium performance. They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick." - Pg. 116

Smith, Rich. “How Does SpaceX Make Money?” The Motley Fool, The Motley Fool, 25 June 2016, www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/25/how-does-spacex-make-money.aspx.

Pages 113 - 116

What the business is ?

Description of the Business

SpaceX's main business now is launching satellites into orbit.

Valuation: $12 billion

Shanklin, Emily. “Falcon Heavy Test Launch.” SpaceX, SpaceX, 7 Feb. 2018, www.spacex.com/news/2018/02/07/falcon-heavy-test-launch.

Business is booming

SpaceX Now

Low - Earth Orit 2010

Dragon delivery 2012

Reflight of a used rocket 2017

Falcon Heavy Test Launch 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ey0yNiTVVo#t=1m52s

WHAT'S NEXT?

WHAT'S NEXT FOR ELON

  • Hyperloop
  • Boring Company
  • Tesla
  • SpaceX

Elon' s Philospohy

Elon' s Philospohy

In my opinion:

To set out to change the world in a meaningful, good way and never compromise reaching that original goal.

Page: 187

What I learned...

  • Always room for Improvement
  • Relentless hard work pays off

What I learned...

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