Changing the World
Elon Musk is a man who wants to change the world. Through his companies. As Google founder Larry Page said, here’s what Musk seeks to do: “Solve cars, global warming, and make humans interplanetary.” (The car + global warming fix is electric cars, via his company Tesla. The let’s-settle-in-Mars attempt is via his other company, SpaceX). It’s his successes at revolutionizing Internet payments via PayPal first and making electric cars sexy via Tesla that makes Page wonder: “Maybe it’s not luck. He’s done it twice… Maybe we should get him to do more things.” But wait a minute: colonizing Mars? Is Musk delusional? Then consider what his friend Jim Cantrell said on Quora : “I am going to suggest that he is successful not because his visions are grand, not because he is extraordinarily smart and not because he works incredibly hard. All of those things are true. The one major important distinction that sets him apart is his inability to consider failure. ...