It is important to understand how Musk operates in order to comprehend his extraordinary success. Musk is a risk taker. He time and again, promises to do the impossible. He purposefully commits to doing things that are really really difficult. What’s the most amazing thing you can imagine in a product: he will promise that in the next model, coming out in 2 years. It is easy to call him delusional....
(A primer to my review of Elon Musk Biography by Ashlee Vance) I first came to know about Elon Musk, by reading about a new private space company launched their first rocket in orbit. I certainly at the time, was not aware of the huge significance of it. The name “Elon Musk”, from then on, would continually pop-up in news. Later i’m reading a highly passioned Oatmeal article about why Tesla Model S is the best car ever built with highest safety rating, customer satisfaction; and it’s electric, meaning doesn’t kill mother earth....