Elon
Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla and Spacex, is a South African immigrant who
chose USA, the land of opportunities, as a destination for realizing his dreams
of making an imprint on the globe. He started with a software company in 1995
and later became the founder of Paypal. Later on, due to problems with the
board members, he was ousted from the very same company he helped conceiving.
He went on to buy the shares of the company in bidding due to his sentimental
values attached to it. Later on, he ventured into aerospace industry and
launched his aerospace company Spacex. This man had to undergo rebuke and many
administrative obstacles from the industry such as NASA legends Neil Armstrong
and Eugene Cernan for his ambitious dreams to make reusable rockets and land
humans on Mars. Elon Musk teared up in an interview when anchor asked him that
your hero Euegene Cernan remarked in a congress testimony that: “Now is the
time to overrule this administration’s (government at the time) pledge to
mediocrity, a direct snide on Elon Musk and Spacex. He never bogged down from
such statements and came true on his promises when his rockets successfully
landed back with a successful recovery. Currently, Spacex is the leader in
aerospace industry and eyeing to catapult 100 metric tons of cargo in space
which will enable the humanity to pursue its dreams of landing on mars till
2030. He also launched satellite constellations (star link) which will enable
high speed and non disrupting internet facility to areas as far as Antarctica
at a phenomenally less premium than its competitors. Elon Musk has launched
Tesla which is a clean electric vehicle technology that lessens our
dependability on hydrocarbons centric vehicles. The company has shown 300
percent growth in the last five years. He is also funding his brother’s venture
to grow sustainable vertical growth agriculture that can guarantee food
security in the face of booming population. He also has an ambitious project
called “Neuralink” to implant chips in differently abled humans in order to
give them the means to live their lives as normal humans with excessive
capabilities like better memory and eyes. It can revolutionize the health
industry and can enable patients of strokes with another opportunity to live
healthy. In order to achieve all this and better concentrate, he has shifted to
specially-made minimalistic house which is the cheapest home for a billionaire
on this planet.
Due
to Elon Musk’s visionary thinking, he may surpass Einstein and Newton in terms
of the utility he promises to give to the mankind. Landing humans on mars may
enable new avenues for interplanetary research. The search for life on other
planets will give clues on the origin of life in the universe. He is pushing
the limits of humanity. Through Tesla, he is helping the world cope with global
warming and giving sustainable alternative technologies rather than expensive
and climate enemy hydrocarbons. With NeuraLink, a new hope has emerged to
enable the crippled people with better life. It is not about whether he will
achieve all these ambitious ventures but the promise and excitement he brings
by going the other way and disrupting the conventional thinking.
Once
Steve Jobs remarked about the disruptors of technology in a Stanford graduation
ceremony, an institute from where he had to drop out, that:
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits.
The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who
see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for
the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignoring them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy
ones, we see genius. Because the people, who are crazy enough to think they can
change the world, are the ones who do."
The above comments suits Elon Musk’s persona
and achievements in letter and spirit.
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