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Jan 17 Funding Secured: The Tweet That Cost Elon Musk $40 Million and His Chairman Title → Jan 05 Tesla Gave Away All Its Patents -- And It Was the Smartest Thing Elon Musk Ever Did → Nov 27 SpaceX's First Three Failed Launches -- And Why the Fourth Changed Everything → Nov 23 Elon Musk Almost Died from Malaria After Being Ousted from His Own Company → May 03 SpaceX Launched Its First Rockets from a Tiny Island in the Middle of the Pacific → Apr 27 Mary Beth Brown -- The Woman Who Was Elon Musk's Real-Life Pepper Potts → Apr 21 Tom Mueller -- The Man Who Built SpaceX's Rocket Engines Starting in His Garage → Apr 17 The Rive Cousins: How Elon Musk's Childhood Friends Built SolarCity → Apr 09 How Elon Musk Got Fired on His Honeymoon Flight to Sydney → Apr 01 Elon Musk Tried to Buy Russian Rockets -- They Laughed Him Out of Moscow → Mar 27 Elon Musk at Penn: The Party House, the Papers, and the Two-Day PhD → Mar 22 The Six-Year-Old Who Walked Across Pretoria Alone to Get to a Birthday Party → Mar 14 The Books That Made Elon Musk: From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Encyclopaedia Britannica → Mar 08 The 12-Year-Old Who Sold a Video Game for $500: Elon Musk's First Business → Mar 04 Justine Musk: The Woman Who Married Elon at His Hungriest and Left at His Richest → Feb 27 Errol Musk: The Brilliant, Difficult Father Who Shaped Elon Musk in Ways Nobody Talks About → Dec 16 Elon Musk Left South Africa at 17 with $2,000 and a Suitcase of Books → Dec 12 Maye Musk: The Mother Who Worked Five Jobs to Raise Three Entrepreneurs → Dec 08 The Road Trip That Started It All: How the Musk Brothers Found Their First Business → Dec 03 Greg Kouri: The Man Who Bet $8,000 on Elon Musk Before Anyone Else → Nov 20 How Zip2 Almost Died Before It Became a $307 Million Exit → Nov 12 From Zip2 to X.com: How Elon Musk Bet Everything on Online Banking → Nov 04 Kimbal Musk: From Zip2 Co-Founder to Farm-to-Table Pioneer → Oct 30 Tosca Musk: The Third Sibling Who Built Her Own Streaming Empire → Sep 12 Elon Musk at Queen's University (1990–1992): The College Years That Shaped Everything → Sep 06 What Elon Musk's First Website Actually Looked Like: Zip2 in 1996 → Jul 27 Elon Musk Crashed His Million-Dollar McLaren — Uninsured — While Showing Off to Peter Thiel → Jul 10 How The Musk Family Got Rich → Jul 06 How the Musk Family Left South Africa: The Full Story of Elon, Maye, and the Migration to Canada →

Dec 25 How Tesla Started as Martin Eberhard's Dream Before Elon Musk Took Over → Dec 20 Steve Jobs: The Man Who Got Fired From Apple and Came Back to Build the Most Valuable Company on Earth → Dec 16 The Women of Early Silicon Valley Nobody Talks About → Oct 25 How Steve Wozniak Built the Apple I in a Garage for $1,300 → Aug 20 Nobody Remembers the Second Founder → Feb 10 The Best Business Advice Is Three Words Long → Jan 27 Sibling Founders: Why Brothers and Sisters Build the Best Companies → Dec 21 Founders Who Got Fired From Their Own Companies — And Built Something Greater → Oct 10 Peter Thiel's Zero to One: The Contrarian Philosophy That Built PayPal and Palantir → Aug 29 The Garage Myth: How Apple, HP, Amazon, and Google Really Started → May 12 Donna Dubinsky: The Woman Who Made the Palm Pilot Possible →

Jan 04 The Dot-Com Crash: 8,000 Companies Died, but the Survivors Built the Future → Nov 28 The Netscape IPO That Started the Internet Gold Rush → Oct 16 What Silicon Valley Was Actually Like in 1995 → Jun 07 MapQuest: The Website That Taught America to Get Directions Online → May 06 The First Webpage: Tim Berners-Lee and the Invention That Made Everything Possible → Apr 20 The First Online Sales: A Sting CD and a Pepperoni Pizza → Mar 18 ICQ: The Israeli App That Invented Instant Messaging Before WhatsApp → Feb 06 Napster: The Teenager Who Broke the Music Industry -- And Built the Future of Streaming →

Aug 14 How Netflix Killed Its Own DVD Business to Become a Streaming Giant → Aug 03 Netflix Opens the Books: Why Reed Hastings Shares Everything with Every Employee → Jul 20 Netflix Has a Five-Word Expense Policy — And It Works Better Than Your 200-Page Handbook → Jul 08 How Netflix Culture Almost Failed in Japan, Brazil, and the Netherlands → Jun 23 Netflix Is a Team, Not a Family, and That Changes Everything → Jun 02 Netflix Pays No Bonuses — And It Is the Smartest Compensation Strategy in Tech → May 12 Netflix 4A Feedback: The Rules That Make Radical Candor Actually Work → Feb 21 How Reed Hastings' First Company Failed — And Why That Was the Best Thing → Feb 17 From a Classroom in Swaziland to Netflix: How the Peace Corps Shaped Reed Hastings → Feb 10 What Netflix and PayPal Have in Common: Talent Density Built Two Empires → Feb 04 The 124 Slides That Changed Silicon Valley: Inside the Netflix Culture Deck → Jan 23 Patty McCord: The Woman Behind the Keeper Test Who Eventually Didn't Pass It → Jan 11 Reed Hastings Gave Away Billions — And Most of It Went to Education → Dec 28 No Rules at Netflix: How Unlimited Vacation and No Expense Policy Actually Work → Jul 21 Blockbuster Laughed Netflix Out of the Room: The $50 Million Mistake → Jul 14 Marc Randolph: The Forgotten Co-Founder Who Actually Started Netflix → Jun 25 The Netflix-Blockbuster Price War That Almost Killed Both Companies → Jun 21 The Red Envelope That Changed Everything: How Netflix DVD-by-Mail Actually Worked → Mar 27 Mitch Lowe: The Man Who Built Netflix's DVD Catalog — And Then Created MoviePass → Jan 25 The Secret Strategy to Success of Netflix →

Sep 22 How PayPal Survived Four Near-Death Experiences Before Going Public → Oct 23 The PayPal Mafia: How One Startup Produced the Founders of YouTube, LinkedIn, and Tesla → Sep 27 David Sacks: From PayPal COO to Hollywood to White House Crypto Czar → Sep 20 Max Levchin: The Ukrainian Refugee Who Co-Founded PayPal with $700 → Sep 16 Roelof Botha: From PayPal CFO to the Most Powerful Investor in Silicon Valley → Aug 17 Three PayPal Engineers Started YouTube Because They Couldn't Find a Video Online → Aug 12 Reid Hoffman Built LinkedIn in His Living Room Six Months After Leaving PayPal → Aug 08 How PayPal Started as a Way to Beam Money Between Palm Pilots → Jun 15 The Story of PayPal's First Customer — And the $10 That Changed Fintech →

Jun 15 Marc Andreessen: The 22-Year-Old Who Built the First Web Browser → Jun 07 Sabeer Bhatia Sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 Million — On His Birthday → May 25 Pierre Omidyar Started eBay with a Broken Laser Pointer → May 08 Jerry Yang and David Filo Built Yahoo in a Stanford Trailer → Sep 20 Stop Calling Every Startup Story a Garage Story → Aug 22 The Company That Bought Zip2 — And Then Disappeared: The Rise and Fall of Compaq → May 19 How Amazon Almost Failed: The Early Years Nobody Talks About → Apr 13 Bill Joy: The Genius Who Built BSD Unix, Co-Founded Sun, and Warned Us About AI → Apr 07 Sun Microsystems: The Company That Gave the World Java → Apr 02 Xerox PARC: The Lab That Invented the Future — And Let Someone Else Sell It → Mar 22 John Doerr: The VC Who Bet on Google, Amazon, and Netscape Before Anyone Else → Mar 11 Vinod Khosla: The Indian Kid Who Read About Intel at 16 — And Built Sun Microsystems → Mar 03 Arthur Rock: The Man Who Invented Venture Capital -- And Funded Intel with 15 Phone Calls → Jan 24 Robert Noyce: The Mayor of Silicon Valley Who Invented the Microchip → Jan 16 How Google Started in a Stanford Dorm Room as a Project Called BackRub → Jan 12 Gordon Moore: The Prediction That Shaped 60 Years of Technology → Jan 07 Andy Grove: The Hungarian Refugee Who Made Intel the Most Important Company in the World → Jan 03 The Traitorous Eight: How One Resignation Created Silicon Valley →