29 September 2017

Way Out There Building A Future: Elon Musk

The fascinating life of Elon Musk, captured in one giant infographic    
Published: Sept 29, 2017 12:43 p.m. ET http://www.marketwatch.com
From getting bullied and thrown down the stairs in grammar school to becoming “Earth’s most future-oriented person” and earning billions of dollars in the process, it’s hard to wrap one’s brain around just how much Elon Musk has managed to stuff into his 44 years of life. But that’s where this massive infographic, created by information designer Anna Vital, comes in.
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“In a hundred years, when most people reading this and the person writing this are long gone, Musk’s cars and rockets will still be circling the Earth and the skies,” writes Anna Vital from the Funders and Founders blog. “How can such a person get started against all odds is the question I ask here. And, more importantly, what can we learn from him?”

Elon Musk is now Earth’s most future-oriented person.
How did such a person come to be?



Learning from Musk might seem naive. After all he is an outlier even among billionaires. I think this is exactly why he is worth studying – you don’t get insight into the extraordinary by studying the ordinary.

Read more > https://blog.adioma.com/how-elon-musk-started-infographic/ 


 

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