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Elon Musk's early interest in technology began at age 10 when he learned programming and created a video game, leading to his first business venture, Zip2, which was sold for $307 million. He later founded SpaceX with ambitions for Mars colonization and has proposed transformative ideas for healthcare through Neuralink. Musk's visionary leadership is evident in his ambitious projects like Tesla and the Hyperloop, which aim to revolutionize transportation and inspire innovation in technology.

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Unit 3

Elon Musk's early interest in technology began at age 10 when he learned programming and created a video game, leading to his first business venture, Zip2, which was sold for $307 million. He later founded SpaceX with ambitions for Mars colonization and has proposed transformative ideas for healthcare through Neuralink. Musk's visionary leadership is evident in his ambitious projects like Tesla and the Hyperloop, which aim to revolutionize transportation and inspire innovation in technology.

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UNIT-3

(Short answers)

1. Describe Musk’s early years and how it inspired his interest in


business and technology.

Technology became an escape for Musk. At 10, he became acquainted


with programming using a Commodore VIC-20, an early and relatively
inexpensive home computer. Before long, Musk had become proficient
enough to create Blastar—a video game in the style of Space Invaders. He
sold the BASIC code for the game to a PC magazine for $500.7

2. . Briefly describe two of Musk’s early business ventures.

He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University. However,


Musk dropped out after two days and, with his brother Kimbal, co-founded
online city guide software company Zip2. The startup was acquired by
Compaq for $307 million in 1999, and, that same year Musk co-founded
X.com, a direct bank. Zip2, former American technology company (1995–
99) that was the first enterprise founded by Elon Musk. It provided a
searchable business directory that could be described as an Internet
version of the yellow page’s telephone directory with maps included.
Market cap: $29.11 billion.

3. What is SpaceX and what has been its impact on space exploration?
SpaceX plans to build a crewed base on Mars for an extended surface
presence, which it hopes will grow into a self-sufficient colony. A
successful colonization, meaning an established human presence on Mars
growing over many decades, would ultimately involve many more economic
actors than SpaceX.

4. How have Musk’s business ventures attempted to transform the


healthcare industry?

Musk has detailed a bold vision for Neuralink: Both disabled and
healthy people will pop into neighborhood facilities for speedy surgical
insertions of devices with functions ranging from curing obesity,
autism, depression or schizophrenia to web-surfing and
telepathy. Eventually, Musk has said, such chips will turn humans into
cyborgs who can fend off the threat from sentient machines powered by
artificial intelligence.
(Long answers)

1. How have Tesla and the Hyperloop radically revolutionized


transportation?

The idea was picked up by Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers as a


means to disrupt a proposed California High-Speed Rail system and
described as a transportation project involving capsules supported by
air-bearings in low-pressure environment inside a tube. First
envisioned by SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, the Hyperloop is
a transportation concept in which passenger-filled pods are accelerated
through a low-pressure tube to their destination. The startup
Hyperloop One (which is not affiliated with Musk) has begun
construction of a full-scale test track, known as the DevLoop, in the
Nevada desert. Contactless magnetic levitation and propulsion systems
enable a comfortable and silent passenger experience. Hyperloop
combines the key benefits of speed and flexibility, comfort and safety
as well as sustainability.

2. In what way has Musk proved to be a visionary leader of cutting-


edge technology? Discuss with relevant examples.

Visionary leadership is centered around long-term goals and


strategies and Elon Musk has a clear vision. He knows what he wants
to achieve, and this is reflected in his leadership style. He constantly
pushes himself and his team out of their comfort zone by setting daring
goals with ambitious timelines. Musk is undoubtedly a great visionary –
this is a man who wants to put people on Mars, after all. He is able
paint a very vivid, inspiring picture of the future as he believes it can
be – and this is what draws talented people to work for him and commit
to the punishing hours that he demands of them.

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