South african born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind paypal space x tesla and solarcity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into spaceto form a colony on mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the iron man series of films starring robert downey junior. The personal tale of musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a greatdrama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at schooland abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditionsand the violence of apartheid south africamusk still thrived academically and attended the university of pennsylvaniawhere he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He started a pair of huge dot-com successesincluding paypalwhich ebay acquired for