Eccentric, billionaire, controversial and passionate. That’s how it is Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet and the businessman who has grabbed the headlines these days, after buy the social network Twitter for a record amount: US$44,000 million.
(Elon Musk looking to buy Coca Cola and McDonalds?).
This physicist and economist by profession has been able to make history and establish himself as a great business benchmark, but is Musk a genius or a crazy visionary?
Its past and its present have been full of good successes, risks and the consolidation of large companies such as Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, Open AI, among others, ratifying that business philosophy that reads: “ You always have to think big.
(Elon Musk stays with the social network Twitter).
It is clear that not even the sky is the limit for this South African businessman, naturalized American, who seeks to touch the stars. He has already shown that it is not enough to build a rocket without first going through years of hard work, research and self-discipline. Or as he says, work between 85 to 100 hours a week.
According to the financial and stock market analyst Andrés Moreno Jaramillo, Musk’s curiosity and his desire to innovate They have led him to stand out as a businessman “a visionary” when starting a business project.
“Elon Musk has always proven to be a dedicated man, who has insisted on his ideas and who has sought to innovate. He prepared himself, he was curious and that helped him to be a disruptive person in everything related to technology. Something that Musk has done is think in the long term, without a doubt an example for entrepreneurs”, Moreno highlights.
Being a strategist is another of Musk’s characteristics and that was evidenced by the 50-year-old tycoon’s latest move to acquire Twitter, which involved the sale of a block of shares in Tesla, the electric car company that is going through its best moment. And it is that, there are those who affirm that Musk has made this purchase more on a whim than a business maneuver. However, other opinions focus on the fact that this decision could take the Little Blue Bird network to a new level.
Sebastián Rueda Quesada, law and technology adviser and consultant, affirms that Elon Musk is a “visionary” who points to unexplored markets that are a risk, but that in the medium or long term end up generating good returns.
“The figures show us that all the investments that this businessman has made end up showing exponential growth. Beyond being crazy, he ends up being a visionary. Something eccentric, but visionary. He has seen different lines of business, such as Tesla, much more futuristic sectors such as Space X, and now he is going for a social network that has always been famous, but that has not had the same figures as its competitors, ”adds Rueda. Cheese.
BUSINESS LESSONS
Although Musk has also been in the eye of the hurricane for his controversial tweets and for the famous event of the “unbreakable” glass, which broke after the businessman hit it, his experience with business also leaves great lessons.
For the entrepreneur Mateo Carmona Arango, Musk leaves as a business lesson his self disciplinebe sure of the objectives, focus on strengths, know how to organize work teams and know the needs of the market.
“This businessman has several traits that are identified with the ideal that one has as an entrepreneur to know what one wants, and that was made clear by Elon since he was a teenager and sold his first video game; his self-discipline, to be able to manage time and be organized; think about the strengths that they have and it is admirable how he is interested in understanding the needs of the market, ”concludes Arango.
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