Biography

He cofounded PayPal in 1998.

CEO & Product Architect of Tesla Motors and CEO & CTO SpaceX.

Inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 2014.

He was the chairman of Solar City, which later merged into Tesla Inc. as a subsidiary.

Read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica at age nine.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.