Sometimes that entailed a bit of truth-bending, but whatever. He was able to talk his way into whatever he needed and deftly talk his way out of trouble as well. He seemed to have been blessed not only with exceptional analytical capabilities, and probably an eidetic memory, but an impressively immense set of cojones. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.It might have seemed like visiting another planet when Musk split his home country of South Africa as a teen and headed to North America, anything to get away from an abusive upbringing. Here is what it says on the SpaceX website SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future biographer Ashlee Vance gives us a picture of both the dreams and the man, peering back to where Musk began, describing his journey from then to now, looking at how he is impacting the world today, and gazing ahead to where he wants to go. But, like Jobs, and Stark for that matter, he might be an acquired taste on a personal level. There is no question that Musk is a special individual, someone with BIG dreams and the drive, talent, and money to make them happen. Elon Musk is not exactly a name that rolls easily off the tongue, like say Tony Stark, the fictional person to whom he is most often compared, or even Steve Jobs, a real-world visionary, whose mantle Musk now wears.
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