I ran a web hosting company for fifteen years. It never grew. I sold shares, changed owners three times, tried everything I knew. Nothing...
In 2008, SpaceX had failed three launches, Tesla was hemorrhaging cash, Musk's marriage was collapsing, and the global financial crisis h...
JB Straubel grew up tearing apart machines in Wisconsin, turned a junk Porsche into a world-record electric car, and then met Elon Musk a...
Elon Musk compares founding a company to eating glass and staring into the abyss. He slept on the factory floor, worked hundred-hour week...
In November 2019, Elon Musk announced Tesla would build its first European factory near Berlin -- right in the homeland of Audi, BMW, and...
Elon Musk compares the cost of a finished part to the raw materials that went into it. If the ratio is high, something is wrong. He calls...
Most people reason by analogy — doing what has been done before. Elon Musk reasons from first principles, breaking problems down to their...
Eugene Kleiner was one of the Traitorous Eight who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild. A decade later, he co-founded Kleiner ...
