Here's a profile of him at BusinessWeek.
A list of his accomplishments and goals:
- SolarCity, where Musk is chairman of the board, is a player in the residential and commercial solar markets [ comment: this is a little doubtful to me, but it is an IPO, so people are willing to bet money on it.]
- Musk is chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX
- Musk led his brother and cousins in a number of ventures, such as selling Easter eggs in the neighborhood and starting a video game arcade.
- in 1995 he bailed out of a graduate program in applied physics at Stanford and, with Kimbal, started an Internet map and directory venture called Zip2. Four years later, they sold Zip2 to Compaq Computer for more than $300 million.
- Musk took his winnings and plowed them into another startup called X.com. This was basically an online bank and would later become PayPal.
- funded a data-center software company called Everdream...And then the rich guy’s deus ex machina arrived when Dell (DELL) acquired Everdream, of which Musk was the major shareholder, for $120 million.
- Next year, SpaceX looks to launch eight flights, and as many as 16 the following year.
- Freeing mankind from the scourge of carbon, not to mention its terrestrial shackles[ comment: Wow!]
- Musk is cooking up plans for something he calls the Hyperloop [ comment: a very fast type of ground transportation]
- “I would like to die on Mars,” he says. “Just not on impact.”
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