It was not difficult to choose Elon Musk as a topic for our research project. Noel had heard mention of Elon Musk beforehand at a college visit to the University of Connecticut, and Charles became enthralled with the technical skill and daring of Elon Musk. He exemplified leadership, and will have a lasting legacy. He fights for humanity in a way that sometimes can come off as ludicrous, but the difference between him and everyone else is that Elon Musk is a success. Elon Musk supports our views for a sustainable future, and will leave a legacy that is a necessity for comfortable survival more than just cultural enlightenment.
How we conducted our research:
We conducted our research through school-provided databases and other reputable networks. As a result of one source that was an excerpt of a book that was released May 19th, 2015, we purchased the book and it became the most invaluable source. Our primary location for finding information that we used was the Gale group database containing the New York Times archives.
Why we chose a website:
We chose a website for our research project presentation because it is easier to make aesthetically pleasing due to web-provided tools. We created our project by selecting a theme from weebly.com and then continued to modify the website that we created through modification tools provided on Weebly. It was necessary to create a brief explanation of Elon Musk’s life in order to provide a backdrop to his drive, and in order to show that Elon Musk did not become the Corporate Executive Officer now through work over the past five years, but rather, work over the past thirty-five. The Website allowed for easier separation of topics, as well.
How Elon Musk relates to Leadership and Legacy:
Elon Musk’s legacy began the day he was born, but his place as a leader became much more prevalent once he had started his first company. Elon Musk began his computer programming life with a video game that had the goal of stopping the aliens from destroying humanity. To this day, Elon Musk claims that he promotes interplanetary travel due increase humanity’s hold on the universe. He does not want humanity to be wiped out with one natural disaster. However, Elon Musk did not have the money to create a space exploration company from the start, nor was he confident enough in himself after being brutally attacked in school and being mentally and possibly physically tortured by his father. As a result, for Elon Musk’s first company, he made Zip2, and then sold it later for twenty-two million dollars, which funded his next venture: X.com. It then sold as PayPal to Ebay for 1.5 billion dollars. Now Elon Musk is the Chief Executive Officer of two companies: Tesla and SpaceX. He has created a legacy that promotes one to put everything that she or he has into what she or he does in order to achieve success. He also promotes the idea that people should do what they believe in like he did making SpaceX, a company that could have put him into poverty but ultimately achieved success.