CEO and Chairman, Tesla
- Elon Musk is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth and in space.
- His automaker, Tesla Motors, which was founded in 2003, is bringing fully-electric vehicles to the mass market.
- He settled with the SEC in September 2018 for making alleged "false statements" about a plan to take Tesla private, and had to step down as chairman.
- SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, is now valued at more than $20 billion. He grew up in South Africa, then immigrated to Canada at age 17. He landed in the US as a transfer student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read this book. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
If something is important enough you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.
— Elon Musk