Elon Musk and The Art of Failing Successfully: A Shadow Side
Introduction There's this meme which displays "Task Failed Successfully" that meme can be a perfect example for one particular person who faced a lot of failures and yet successful in it. Yes, we are referring about the Real Life Iron-Man, Elon Musk. From applying for a job in Netscape to launching rockets to Mars, Musk have traveled way too long in his life with numerous failures. There are some, the world knows and there are few that went under the radar. In this post, we're going to shout out loud about those failures which made the very man, Elon Musk and the dark side of Tesla! Ousted as CEO from Zip2 and PayPal Like I said earlier, the first stepping stone for him was, unsuccessful in applying job for Netscape. The Musk brothers founded an online guide for newspaper in 1996, Zip2. He ended up being ousted as CEO and sold it for $300Million with a share of 7% to his name. That's roughly $22Million. With that money he started X.com, an online financial servi...