Most people reason by analogy — doing what has been done before. Elon Musk reasons from first principles, breaking problems down to their fundamental truths and rebuilding from there. Here is how i...
On August 7, 2018, Elon Musk tweeted nine words about taking Tesla private. He did not have a finalized deal. The SEC sued him, and the f...
Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems, then wrote the check that got Google started — before the company was even incorporated. H...
Hastings offered his resignation at Pure Software. Musk was removed as CEO while on his honeymoon. Both came back stronger. What does tha...
In June 2014, Elon Musk removed Tesla's patents from its headquarters lobby and opened them to the world. It looked like charity. It was ...
Scott McNealy co-founded Sun Microsystems at 28, led it for over two decades, battled Microsoft in the courts and the marketplace, and wa...
Tesla was not founded by Elon Musk. It was created by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003, inspired by a tiny electric sports car...
In 1985, Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple, the company he co-founded. He spent 12 years in exile building NeXT and Pixar. When he retur...
Behind every Silicon Valley origin story are women who built the infrastructure, shaped the culture, and broke barriers that others got c...
