Book review of Elon Musk (Ashlee Vance) by Mukesh Bhavsar

1. BOOK- ELON MUSK
HOW THE BILLIONAIRE CEO IS
SHAPING OUR FUTURE
Chandan Kumar
Mukesh Bhavsar

2. Elon’s World
 Second entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley who
managed to create three companies with a
market cap of more that $1 billion
 An inventor, innovator and engineer
 Known for SpaceX, Paypal, Tesla Motors,
Hyperloop, SolarCity
 Man of perseverance, hard work, self analysis
and critical thinking

3. Early life and Education
Early Childhood
 Born in, Pretoria, South Africa on June 28, 1971
 Spent his childhood in South Africa and bullied
throught his childhood
 At the age of 9 he got his first computer, the
Commodore VIC-20
 Graduated from Pretoria Boys High School and
moved to Canada in 1989

4. Early Life and Education Continued…
University
 At the age of 19, he entered into Queen’s University
in Kingston, Ontario
 In 1992, he moved to the US because of scholarship
from the university of Pennsylvania
 In 1995, he moved to California to begin a PhD in
applied physics at Stanford University

5. Zip2
 In 1995, Musk with his brother Kimbal created his
first IT company Zip2
 Musk obtained contracts with The New York Times
and the Chicago Tribune
 In 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million in
cash and $34 million in securities

6. Paypal
 After Zip2, the X.com startup became his new
business
 In march 2000, X.com merged with a rival company
Confinity
 In 2001, X.com was renamed to Paypal and Elon
became the chairman and chief executive of Paypal
 In 2002, eBay bought Paypal for $1.5 billion > $165
million to Musk

7. What after $ Millions??
 Internet, renewable energy and outer space
 "An asteroid or a super volcano could destroy us,
and we face risks the dinosaurs never saw: an
engineered virus, catastrophic global warming or
some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the
end of us. Humankind evolved over millions of
years, but in the last sixty years atomic weaponry
created the potential to extinguish ourselves.
Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond this
green and blue ball—or go extinct."

8. First Private
Spaceflight
Company
First Private
Spacecraft to
reach Orbit and
visit
International
Space Station
Working on
Mars
Mission
More than $5
Billion in
Contracts
Both
Commercial and
NASA Missions
Mars colony
by 2040, with
a population
of 80,00
Highly
Efficient
Falcon 9
Development Cost
3x Less Than it
Would in NASA

9. Sustainable Energy
Tesla Roadster
The First Fully Electric Sports
Car
Supercharger Network
462 Stations in 4 Continents
270 kms of range in about 30 minutes
$50 Million Investment
by Toyota and Daimler AG each

10. Number One
Residential Solar
Provider in US
Cheaper
Alternative to
Traditional
Electricity
No Monetary
Installation Cost
$200 Million
Worth of Solar
Bonds

12. Leadership Values
Authentic
Self-Awareness
Persistent
Intuitive
Outspoken
Shortcomings
Overconfidence
Far-fetched
Ideas
Lack of
Empathy

13. THANK YOU