Giao Phan’s Reviews > Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future > Status Update

Chap 6: this chapter is about Elon’s spaceX from start to Falcon 1. Up until the end of this chapter, space X had not succeeded yet in launching the falcon rocket.

Chap 5: Elon musk and the aerospace start-up
Musk started by joining the community, then to support the project to grow a plant on mars. He then tried to buy a missile from Russia, but failed, before coming up with the idea to build the missile on his own.
“Musk would inspire people to think about exploring space again by making it cheaper to explore space”

Chap 4: Paypal Mafia
Elon’s X.com and Confinity are rivals in financial industry. They conquer the impossible legal barriers to set stones for digital financial services. Later on, when both companies are merged into Paypal, Musk displayed some navigations that led company to negative directions, and Thield saved it. Hence some claims that Musk is not a good part of Paypal.

Chapter 1, 2, 3: family background and early childhood
- his maternal grandparents are Canadian who flew to S.A on their own jet. They seemed to be wealthy.
- as a kid, he showed interests in sci-fi and other features as photo-graphic memory
- he came back to canada and then studied physics and economics in Penn state