While Elon Musk has become mostly known for his creation of Tesla, his unique lifestyle, wild tweets, and now, buying Twitter, he position on the global stage comes from his impressive entrepreneurial practice. Elon Musk, throughout his career of serial innovation and venture starting, has been relentlessly focused on mission over profit. From a purely financial basis, many would write him off as foolish for how he has allocated his personal wealth towards his passion projects. However, his passion projects include Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, and so many more global brands. So how was he able to accomplish such big feats while ignoring traditional entrepreneurial wisdom? Curiosity. He was so curious about the best-case outcomes for his inventions, that he poured nearly all of his personal net worth into SpaceX and Tesla, instead of allocating it all to one venture, which with traditional wisdom, would have given him the best chance at any level of success with either venture. However, he was so driven with what was possible and did not lock himself in with what was feasible. Now, he is the richest man in the world, with both companies thriving both financially and also on an impact basis. While business owners should use logic in there choices, sometimes they need to dare more than they are used to.
Great job, this is very well written. It is incredible how Elon Musk rewrote entrepreneurship. He confirmed that out of curiosity and doing what you really love anyone can make money. As you mentioned curiosity is a huge part of it. Having the earge to search past what has already been discovered can lead to so much success. Elon Musk has that imagination and “think outside the box” mindset.
This blog post was written very well. I especially like how you described how Musk uses a mixture of strategic decisions and daring decisions in his path to success. While it is very important for entrepreneurs to use strategy and calculations when making decisions, sometimes you just have to dare to innovate and do things that nobody else have even thought of doing, and Musk is a perfect example of this.