Silicon Valley sank into a deep depression. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2007, it left behind a slew of empty-handed investors and mediocre companies. Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation," Vance writes. "He is less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory. Vance asserts that Musk has what so many in Silicon Valley lack – a meaningful world view.
Vance believes Musk will leave an indelible mark on the world through his transformative work. Musk had a deep commitment to explore Mars and he would find a way to make it happen. If that meant man should pursue cleaner energy technology or build spaceships to extend the human species' reach, then so be it. Musk came to see man's fate in the universe as a personal obligation. In college, he became convinced there were three areas that would change the future of the world for good: the internet, sustainable energy and the ability to live outside our planet. Musk has always been a man with a mission and a higher calling. In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, the South Africa-born inventor opens up to writer and reporter Ashlee Vance about the rocky road he traveled to become America's most innovative modern industrialist. Experts described it as the fastest bout of wealth creation in history. Remarkably, Musk not only topped Jeff Bezos, but accrued $150 billion of that net worth in the prior 12 months alone. On January 7, 2021, Musk was named the richest person in the world with a net worth of $188.5 billion.
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