#Doccie – Risk Takers (Elon Musk)

Elon Musk helped create PayPal, built America’s first viable fully electric car company, started the United States’ biggest solar energy supplier and may make commercial space travel a reality in our lifetime. And he’s still in his 30s. Musk combines technical and business talent with what he and his colleagues say is his passion to make the world a better place.

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, Model 3, and presumably also the fourth vehicle, a smaller, more affordable SUV discussed by Musk in past interviews), 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.