ShareElon Musk (wikipedia) is one of the most interesting entrepreneurs alive today. After creating Zip2 (sold to Compaq for $307m) and Paypal (sold to eBay for $1.5b), he’s kept busy. He financed and executive produced the rather hilarious libertarian movie Thank You For Smoking (imdb), and founded two remarkable companies:
Tesla Motors (my prior post; wikipedia; their website), a credible attempt at making an all electric car.
And
SpaceX, which is trying to create cheap rockets to help humanity finally get into space in a real way. Here’s an interesting profile of SpaceX: http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-06/ff_space_musk
Update, 6/20/07: Make that 3 companies. He’s also the founder and Chairman of SolarCity (http://www.solarcity.com/), a company that helps building owners or communities of homeowners install, finance and monitor roof mounted solar panel installations.
