Musk on business risk and close calls with failure

This is not a polished speech, but Musk fans will find his humble vision and work ethic inspiring. Far from putting their personal net worth on the line, many public corporate executives today are focused on their own entitlements, extracting huge benefits and pay packages while weakening the company under their management and in some cases literally driving it into the ground. Musk’s story is a relatively rare story in modern times: one of personal risk in service of a vision for the greater good.

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., speaks about his career, businesses, trials and near failures in this 34 minute speech. He speaks at the Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte, Montana. Here is a direct video link.

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