ELON Musk's ability:
- to turn hyperbole into reality;
- his intense focus on driving every problem down to the level of basic physics;
- greater than normal ability to calculate risk and emotional ability to tolerate it;
- driven by a larger sense of mission;
His products:
- Tesla: electric cars and self-driving ones.
- Tesla Energy: solar roof tiles and battery walls.
- SpaceX: launch humans into orbit.
- Starlink: rebuilding the Internet in space.
- Neuralink: human machine interfaces, link to the neurons of a brain.
- Boring Co. : building tunnels designed to conquer the scourge of traffic.
- Starship: the biggest rocket which take us to Mars someday.
Earlier innovators:
- Thomas Edison and Telsa Nikola: expends 90% of his time on the nuts and bolts of his products.
- Henry Ford: to devise the products and build factories to churn them out.
- Steve Jobs: to question every assumption in order to drill down to the first principles of physics.
- Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos: hardcore intensity that can drive colleagues to near madness, drive them to do things they thought were impossible.
- Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci: obsessive and playful curiosity about all of the wonders of nature.
He has become the most important single individual in designing and deploying the innovations that bring us a few steps closer to each of these aspirations.
Reference
[1]. Tomorrow's Innovator, Walter Isaacson, 2021.
