For
people who have been working for years in an engineering company, most of my
colleagues and I always hope that the direct boss that we are working with is
someone with sufficient technical experience or at least someone who has at
least a basic understanding of the technical stuff that we are dealing with on
a daily basis. However, this is not always the case and it can be quite
frustrating if you are working for a Yes-man or someone who follow exactly the
instruction given by the top management and care only the KPI results but knows
nothing about the things that are going on in the office or without interest to
know more. What if Elon musk be my boss? From paypal to spaceX, Tesla and then
the Hyperloop. What he has done so far really gives me a better idea how a CEO
in technical industry could be. As compared to achieve the KPI every month, the
passion to change the world with technology could contribute more to the technological
development for the mankind. Instead of creating something that can allow
people to upload their baby’s photos to share with others online and see how
many “Like” the photo is worth for, perhaps we need more powerful batteries,
greener electricity driven car or powerful space shuttles that could take us to
the Mar under the space migration project that seems practicable in the next
two or three decades.
This
book shows the readers the unknown sides of the entrepreneur that we could not know
from the mass media in details. How he created all these companies and made
them the leaders in their respective industries? How he continued believing
that his plan was practicable after repeated failure and long delay from the targeted
dates? And even his private life, his young
age, marriage and children. This book gave me a better understanding on how the
life of an entrepreneur in west coast of US could be. Opportunity and timing is
important. When you seize them, you must work the hardest you could to make use
of what you have so that you won’t be regret of no making full use of them
later. And, one more important thing, the life of an entrepreneur is many times
more exciting than a white-collar job with daily 9 to 5 working routines. If
you have passion for something, you should pursue it and challenge it. While
reading this book, I can’t help but keep comparing my current job with an
engineer in Silicon Valley or more specifically the engineer working in one of
the Elon’s companies like Tesla or SpaceX. I think that they must be very
passionate about what they are doing and that’s why they can continue advancing
forward in spite of the difficulties and technological challenges. An engineer job
in a company that makes its profit using the technology of last decade and
almost no investment in R&D seems not promising at all. Perhaps this is one
of the many reasons why many talented people migrate to US to pursue their
dreams and look for a bigger world that can make use of the skills that they
have!
Very
interested to know how the future of the abovementioned technology companies
would like and whether, in the coming future, would there be any new company to
spearhead the technological development of the world…
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