I created this place to pen down some of the thoughts and feelings flowing through my consciousness which add a new paradigm
to the way I perceive and experience life.
Elon Musk is a South-African born American, He has in the
past co-founded Zip2, led and later sold PayPal, is CEO-Tesla Motors,
Chairman -Solar city, CEO -Space exploration technologies, is somewhere
worth close to USD 7 Billion ( INR +40,000 Cr ) and is Fortune magazine’s
Businessperson of the year-2013 ( Oh! and he's just 42 years old ).
No, this post is not his autobiography.
In 2002, he founded Space Exploration Technologies, it designs,
manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, with an ultimate
goal of enabling people to live on other planets. Currently it has secured
long-term contracts with NASA and has 50 launches in its manifest representing
USD 5 Billion in contracts.
Let’s just think about what he’s trying to do here, he’s
trying to build a business around the opportunity of colonizing other Planets
in the universe!!!
What really intrigues, rather inspires me is the sheer
conviction he has not only in his dream but also in his ability to eventually
see it come true. At one point of time he virtually put everything he had in
order to keep SpaceX afloat.
I don’t know if he’ll succeed in eventually achieving what
he has set out to, what I do know is, here’s a man who has the audacity to
conjure up a dream larger in magnitude than any in comparison and has the
genius and courage to pursue it.
George Bernard Shaw famously said, "The reasonable man adapts himself
to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Elon Musk fits marvelously well
into this quote.
P.S : All facts and figures are
collected from the following sources:
1.
Wikipedia
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