Ho hum... Bris Vegas has infested several of my company threads lately and I thought I'd take a break from all that mind-numbing attention-whoring negativity to focus on a can-do person:
(excerpts from the The New York Times article to follow)
"If Silicon Valley was holding out for a hero after Steve Jobs' death, a disrupter in chief, it has found a brawny one in Musk. This South African-born entrepreneur, inventor and engineer is the animating force behind companies (Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity) that have made startling advances in non-indoor-cat arenas: electric cars, space exploration and solar energy. He is all of 43.
Musk is about as close as the US has, circa 2015, to early industrial titans like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Along with his swagger, he totes surprise, style and wit. Tesla's Model S sedan was not only Motor Trend's Car of the Year in 2013 — the first non-internal-combustion engine vehicle to win that award — but it also has a sound system that, in a homage to the film Spinal Tap, you can turn up to 11.
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Bits from this biography have already made internet gossip ripples. According to Vance, Musk berated a male employee who missed a Tesla event to be present for the birth of his child. Musk has denied this. Either way, he does not come off like Alan Alda. He has been married three times — twice to the same woman — and, while thinking about fitting a new relationship into his schedule, he asks: "How much time does a woman want a week? Maybe 10 hours?"
Other eye-popping details, not all of them previously reported, are flecked atop this book like sea salt. His five children don't merely have nannies but have had a nanny manager. He worries that Google is building a fleet of robots that may accidentally destroy mankind. He rents castles and sumo wrestlers for his parties. At one of them, a knife thrower aimed at a balloon between the blindfolded Musk's legs.
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Musk got started in space exploration by first learning all he could about it, sometimes reading Soviet-era rocket manuals. There were many failures, and several near-bankruptcies, along the way to making SpaceX what it is today, notably the only private company to have docked with the International Space Station..." http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...disruptive-industrialist-20150513-gh0cd7.html
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is the name of the book.
