Great documentary on the life of Elon Musk (by Bloomberg, August 2011) Covers his early life, leaving South Africa for college (in Canada then the US), the dot-com era (Zip2, Paypal) and finally his post-2000 companies in more depth (discussing the rocket company SpaceX, the solar panel installation company SolarCity and the electric car company Tesla Motors) For this programme, Bloomberg conducted its own interviews directly with Elon Musk, Maye Musk (mother), Kimbal Musk (brother), Max Chafkin (Inc Magazine profiler), Franz von Holzhausen‎ (designer Tesla Model S, Model X, also designing the yet-unnamed, unrevealed "Tesla BlueStar" and presumably also Tesla's recently announced fourth vehicle, a smaller, more affordable SUV), Steve Jurvetson (Investor, Telsa/SpaceX board member), Eric Noble (Telsa detractor, president of consulting firm Car Lab) and a few other people, as well as using a few clips from past interviews. Here are the links to Max Chafkin's Inc Magazine profiles alluded to at 7:01 into the video 2007: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20071201/entrepreneur-of-the-year-elon-musk.html 2010: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/elon-musks-guide-to-the-galaxy.html There's also this more recent magazine piece by Business Week (September 2012) that people might be interested in: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-13/elon-musk-the-21st-century-industrialist If you live in a country with Netflix, there's a HD version on Netflix Instant: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Bloomberg_Risk_Takers_Elon_Musk/70219876 Please like and share :) --- Original Bloomberg source is available below: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184-elon-musk-profiled-bloomberg-risk-takers.html Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- "Bloomberg Risk Takers" profiles Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who helped create PayPal, built America's first viable fully electric car company, started the nation's biggest solar energy supplier, and may make commercial space travel a reality in our lifetime. And he's only 40."

• published: 03 Jan 2013
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