Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos are not extreme entrepreneurs. At least, not compared to Elon Musk.
At 12 years old, he created a videogame that he sold to a computer magazine for $500 — essentially a million dollars when you are 12.
4 years later, Musk sells Zip2 for over $300 million.
Can you believe this list still goes on???
Musk aims to put people on Mars.
Coming from an engineering background, gives Elon the ability to dominate a variety of industries from a technical standpoint. For example, since founding SpaceX, Musk has been able to reduce the cost of building rockets by 10-fold. Such a cost reduction could save an organization like NASA billions of dollars. The initiative to aim to put people on Mars was spurred from his distaste with NASA's current timeline to put people on Mars.
ded in dramatically reducing the cost of rockets. Not only that, but SpaceX is also the first company to launch a shuttle that successfully connected with the International Space Station.
The team is now focused on building cheap rockets that are able to land casually on the martian surface.
How many entrepreneurs can say they are working on a project of that magnitude? It is for this reason, as well as his overall experience across diverse industries (tech, energy, space exploration) that I consider Elon Musk to be an extreme entrepreneur.
Can you think of any other extreme entrepreneurs? Leave a comment down below with anyone you think fits the bill.