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雑誌FortuneがBusines Person Of the YearはElon Muskを選んでいました。Tesla Model Sをヒットさせ、Hyperloopで新交通システムの夢を語り、ビジネスとイノベーションを高いレベルで実践していた活躍を考えると順当な選出でサプライズではありませんね。日本人にとってはAkio ToyosaさんがGoogleのLarry PageやWarren Buffet、MarissaMayerを抑えて７位に選ばれていたことがいいニュースでしょうか。
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity
--Cultural impact --No. 1 revenue gainer --No. 2 stock price gainer
It is no Secret that Elon Musk is a triple threat: The co-founder of PayPal has gone on to disrupt aeronautics with Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX; shake up the auto business with Tesla Motors (TSLA); and retool the energy sector with SolarCity (SCTY). (He is CEO of the first two companies and chairman and largest shareholder of the third.) But 2013 was an especially notable year for Musk, as investors and consumers wholeheartedly embraced his ideas and vision. After a rocky start a decade ago, Tesla has emerged to become the world's most prominent maker of all-electric cars. Revenue at Tesla is up more than 12-fold for the first three quarters of the year, and the company is on track to top $2 billion in sales in 2013. The stock is up more than fourfold year to date, and that's after giving back some gains when recent vehicle sales missed some analysts' estimates. (A series of troubling car battery fires has not helped.) And just as SpaceX has helped reignite interest in space exploration, Musk's plans for a "hyperloop" between San Francisco and Los Angeles got Americans buzzing about ultra-high-speed transit when Musk released his design plans in August. Musk's creations have already made him tremendously wealthy -- Bloomberg Wealth says he is worth $7.7 billion -- but it is his audacity and tenacity that make him Fortune's Businessperson of the Year.
--Adam Lashinsky
TedのChris Andersonがスティーブジョブズとの共通点を挙げてマスクを誉め立てている自己啓発的な記事を書いています。元気が出る読み物なので英語学習者にもオススメできます。今でこそ成功者のシンボルですが、始めた当初はI thought the likeliest outcome was failure.と思っていたようです。
The shared genius of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
By Chris Anderson @FortuneMagazine November 27, 2013: 9:28 AM ET
And if his clarity comes from physics, the desire fueling Musk's conviction stems from his core beliefs of what a better future looks like. Since his college days, he's been certain that humanity must move to sustainable energy and that it must find a path to expand beyond Earth. Those are fundamental to who he is. So when he saw a possible path to get there, he was willing to gamble everything to attain it.
And that's why conviction doesn't necessarily mean certainty. Indeed, Musk emphasized to me that in the early years of both SpaceX and Tesla he had zero certainty that they would succeed. "In fact," he said, "I thought the likeliest outcome was failure." Now that's an astonishing statement. But he insisted that all he knew when he started was that success was a possibility. The reason he plowed ahead was his strength of feeling that the possibility had to be pursued.
In the case of SpaceX, Musk was convinced first and foremost that someone had to do something about humankind's increasingly uninspiring efforts in space. He had been horrified to discover that NASA had no serious plans to send humans to Mars. In his worldview, that amounted to gambling our species' entire history of progress. Human civilization on Earth faced numerous risks. We had to become a multiplanetary species to ensure long-term survival. (I can hear cynics saying, "C'mon, that's spin. He's just doing it to get rich." Those who know Elon well would profoundly disagree.)
記事の最後にTALE OF TWO ENTREPRENEURSとジョブズとマスクの類似点をまとめてくれています。ちょっと脱線しますが、TALE OF TWO …の書き方はディケンズのA Tale of Two Cities（二都物語）を意識してのものでしょう。単なる書き方だけなので、たいして気にする必要はありませんが、書き出しもちょくちょく引用されるものなのであわせて確認しておきます。
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
それはすべての時世の中で最もよい時世でもあれば、すべての時世の中で最も悪い時世でもあった。叡智の時代でもあれば、痴愚の時代でもあった。信仰の時期でもあれば、懐疑の時期でもあった。光明の時節でもあれば、暗黒の時節でもあった。希望の春でもあれば、絶望の冬でもあった。人々の前にはあらゆるものがあるのでもあれば、人々の前には何一つないのでもあった。人々は皆真直に天国へ行きつつあるのでもあれば、人々は皆真直にその反対の道を行きつつあるのでもあった。――要するに、その時代は、当時の最も口やかましい権威者たちのある者が、善かれ悪しかれ最大級の比較法でのみ解さるべき時代であると主張したほど、現代と似ていたのであった。
TALE OF TWO ENTREPRENEURS
Dropping out • Musk earned business and physics degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1995 nearly started a Stanford University Ph.D. program in materials science and applied physics. He left to start a business before ever taking classes. • Jobs spent only one semester at Reed College before he dropped out in 1973.
First company • Musk launched Internet software company Zip2 in 1995 and sold it to Compaq for $ 300 million. • Jobs started Apple with Steve Wozniak from his parents' garage.
Uniform • Musk prefers form-fitting T-shirts. And jeans. • Jobs wore black mock turtlenecks. And jeans.
You're fired! • Musk was fired as CEO of X.com (later PayPal) while on vacation in 2000. (He was replaced by co-founder and friend Peter Thiel.) Musk later joked, "That's the problem with vacations." • Jobs was pushed out of Apple in 1985 after clashing with then-CEO John Sculley.
Power play • Musk ousted Tesla co-founder and then-CEO Martin Eberhard in 2007. The next year, he installed himself as CEO and started working on a turnaround. • Jobs returned to a troubled Apple in 1996 after it bought his company, NeXT, and helped push out then-CEO Gil Amelio. He became interim CEO in 1997 and permanent CEO in 2000.
Lucrative sideline • Musk is the chairman and a major backer of SolarCity. • Jobs acquired Pixar in 1986 and as CEO (while running NeXT and later Apple), he released the first CGI animated feature film, Toy Story. (He sold Pixar to Disney in 2006 for $7.5 billion.)
成功者の太鼓持ちみたいなガイアのなんとかみたいなテレビ番組になってしまっているのが鼻につく記事ですが、マスクなら本当に火星にコロニーを作ってしまうのではないかと思えてきました。
先月のAtlanticはInvention特集だったのですが、そこでも現代の偉大なInventorとして選ばれていました。
NOVEMBER 2013
Who Will Tomorrow's Historians Consider Today's Greatest Inventors?
We asked leading figures in technology, science, medicine, and design for nominations. Here's what they said.
NICOLE ALLAN
OCT 23 2013, 7:08 PM ET
Elon Musk
Co-founder, PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors
NOMINATED BY: Adam Cahan, senior vice president, Yahoo; Mark Hurd, co-president, Oracle; Susan Wojcicki, senior vice president, Google
In the spirit of inveterate and wide-ranging tinkerers like Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, Musk has transformed virtually every field he’s taken an interest in, from electronic payments to commercial spaceflight to electric cars.
Raised in South Africa, Musk studied physics and business in the U.S. Like any good entrepreneur, he dropped out of a Stanford graduate program to launch his first company, an online mapping and directory service whose sale enabled the launch of what would become PayPal—and Musk’s ticket to big-time innovation.
Like many of his PayPal colleagues, Musk used his fortune from the sale of that company to fund a flurry of new ventures, including Tesla, a manufacturer of electric cars, and SpaceX, a commercial spaceflight operation. He splits his time between the companies’ facilities in Palo Alto and Los Angeles, and at one point resorted to taking loans from friends to keep Tesla alive.
The range and scale of Musk’s ambitions have attracted skepticism, but over time, he has proved himself to be not only an ideas man but an astute business thinker. “He’s a guy who dreams big dreams,” says Hurd, “and then makes them happen.”
Musk’s latest dream is the Hyperloop, a giant pneumatic tube that would transport passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in 35 minutes. It sounds crazy, but as Wojcicki points out, “Elon Musk is one of the few people who can propose the Hyperloop and be taken seriously.”
ちょうどいいタイミングで雑誌Economistも四半期ごとのTechnology Quarterlyの号です。
Innovation awards
And the winners are…
Innovation awards: Our annual prizes recognise successful innovators in eight categories. Here are this year’s winners
Nov 30th 2013 | From the print edition
興味深い情報があればご紹介したいと思います。
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity
--Cultural impact --No. 1 revenue gainer --No. 2 stock price gainer
It is no Secret that Elon Musk is a triple threat: The co-founder of PayPal has gone on to disrupt aeronautics with Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX; shake up the auto business with Tesla Motors (TSLA); and retool the energy sector with SolarCity (SCTY). (He is CEO of the first two companies and chairman and largest shareholder of the third.) But 2013 was an especially notable year for Musk, as investors and consumers wholeheartedly embraced his ideas and vision. After a rocky start a decade ago, Tesla has emerged to become the world's most prominent maker of all-electric cars. Revenue at Tesla is up more than 12-fold for the first three quarters of the year, and the company is on track to top $2 billion in sales in 2013. The stock is up more than fourfold year to date, and that's after giving back some gains when recent vehicle sales missed some analysts' estimates. (A series of troubling car battery fires has not helped.) And just as SpaceX has helped reignite interest in space exploration, Musk's plans for a "hyperloop" between San Francisco and Los Angeles got Americans buzzing about ultra-high-speed transit when Musk released his design plans in August. Musk's creations have already made him tremendously wealthy -- Bloomberg Wealth says he is worth $7.7 billion -- but it is his audacity and tenacity that make him Fortune's Businessperson of the Year.
--Adam Lashinsky
TedのChris Andersonがスティーブジョブズとの共通点を挙げてマスクを誉め立てている自己啓発的な記事を書いています。元気が出る読み物なので英語学習者にもオススメできます。今でこそ成功者のシンボルですが、始めた当初はI thought the likeliest outcome was failure.と思っていたようです。
The shared genius of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
By Chris Anderson @FortuneMagazine November 27, 2013: 9:28 AM ET
And if his clarity comes from physics, the desire fueling Musk's conviction stems from his core beliefs of what a better future looks like. Since his college days, he's been certain that humanity must move to sustainable energy and that it must find a path to expand beyond Earth. Those are fundamental to who he is. So when he saw a possible path to get there, he was willing to gamble everything to attain it.
And that's why conviction doesn't necessarily mean certainty. Indeed, Musk emphasized to me that in the early years of both SpaceX and Tesla he had zero certainty that they would succeed. "In fact," he said, "I thought the likeliest outcome was failure." Now that's an astonishing statement. But he insisted that all he knew when he started was that success was a possibility. The reason he plowed ahead was his strength of feeling that the possibility had to be pursued.
In the case of SpaceX, Musk was convinced first and foremost that someone had to do something about humankind's increasingly uninspiring efforts in space. He had been horrified to discover that NASA had no serious plans to send humans to Mars. In his worldview, that amounted to gambling our species' entire history of progress. Human civilization on Earth faced numerous risks. We had to become a multiplanetary species to ensure long-term survival. (I can hear cynics saying, "C'mon, that's spin. He's just doing it to get rich." Those who know Elon well would profoundly disagree.)
記事の最後にTALE OF TWO ENTREPRENEURSとジョブズとマスクの類似点をまとめてくれています。ちょっと脱線しますが、TALE OF TWO …の書き方はディケンズのA Tale of Two Cities（二都物語）を意識してのものでしょう。単なる書き方だけなので、たいして気にする必要はありませんが、書き出しもちょくちょく引用されるものなのであわせて確認しておきます。
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
それはすべての時世の中で最もよい時世でもあれば、すべての時世の中で最も悪い時世でもあった。叡智の時代でもあれば、痴愚の時代でもあった。信仰の時期でもあれば、懐疑の時期でもあった。光明の時節でもあれば、暗黒の時節でもあった。希望の春でもあれば、絶望の冬でもあった。人々の前にはあらゆるものがあるのでもあれば、人々の前には何一つないのでもあった。人々は皆真直に天国へ行きつつあるのでもあれば、人々は皆真直にその反対の道を行きつつあるのでもあった。――要するに、その時代は、当時の最も口やかましい権威者たちのある者が、善かれ悪しかれ最大級の比較法でのみ解さるべき時代であると主張したほど、現代と似ていたのであった。
TALE OF TWO ENTREPRENEURS
Dropping out • Musk earned business and physics degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1995 nearly started a Stanford University Ph.D. program in materials science and applied physics. He left to start a business before ever taking classes. • Jobs spent only one semester at Reed College before he dropped out in 1973.
First company • Musk launched Internet software company Zip2 in 1995 and sold it to Compaq for $ 300 million. • Jobs started Apple with Steve Wozniak from his parents' garage.
Uniform • Musk prefers form-fitting T-shirts. And jeans. • Jobs wore black mock turtlenecks. And jeans.
You're fired! • Musk was fired as CEO of X.com (later PayPal) while on vacation in 2000. (He was replaced by co-founder and friend Peter Thiel.) Musk later joked, "That's the problem with vacations." • Jobs was pushed out of Apple in 1985 after clashing with then-CEO John Sculley.
Power play • Musk ousted Tesla co-founder and then-CEO Martin Eberhard in 2007. The next year, he installed himself as CEO and started working on a turnaround. • Jobs returned to a troubled Apple in 1996 after it bought his company, NeXT, and helped push out then-CEO Gil Amelio. He became interim CEO in 1997 and permanent CEO in 2000.
Lucrative sideline • Musk is the chairman and a major backer of SolarCity. • Jobs acquired Pixar in 1986 and as CEO (while running NeXT and later Apple), he released the first CGI animated feature film, Toy Story. (He sold Pixar to Disney in 2006 for $7.5 billion.)
成功者の太鼓持ちみたいなガイアのなんとかみたいなテレビ番組になってしまっているのが鼻につく記事ですが、マスクなら本当に火星にコロニーを作ってしまうのではないかと思えてきました。
先月のAtlanticはInvention特集だったのですが、そこでも現代の偉大なInventorとして選ばれていました。
NOVEMBER 2013
Who Will Tomorrow's Historians Consider Today's Greatest Inventors?
We asked leading figures in technology, science, medicine, and design for nominations. Here's what they said.
NICOLE ALLAN
OCT 23 2013, 7:08 PM ET
Elon Musk
Co-founder, PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors
NOMINATED BY: Adam Cahan, senior vice president, Yahoo; Mark Hurd, co-president, Oracle; Susan Wojcicki, senior vice president, Google
In the spirit of inveterate and wide-ranging tinkerers like Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, Musk has transformed virtually every field he’s taken an interest in, from electronic payments to commercial spaceflight to electric cars.
Raised in South Africa, Musk studied physics and business in the U.S. Like any good entrepreneur, he dropped out of a Stanford graduate program to launch his first company, an online mapping and directory service whose sale enabled the launch of what would become PayPal—and Musk’s ticket to big-time innovation.
Like many of his PayPal colleagues, Musk used his fortune from the sale of that company to fund a flurry of new ventures, including Tesla, a manufacturer of electric cars, and SpaceX, a commercial spaceflight operation. He splits his time between the companies’ facilities in Palo Alto and Los Angeles, and at one point resorted to taking loans from friends to keep Tesla alive.
The range and scale of Musk’s ambitions have attracted skepticism, but over time, he has proved himself to be not only an ideas man but an astute business thinker. “He’s a guy who dreams big dreams,” says Hurd, “and then makes them happen.”
Musk’s latest dream is the Hyperloop, a giant pneumatic tube that would transport passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in 35 minutes. It sounds crazy, but as Wojcicki points out, “Elon Musk is one of the few people who can propose the Hyperloop and be taken seriously.”
ちょうどいいタイミングで雑誌Economistも四半期ごとのTechnology Quarterlyの号です。
Innovation awards
And the winners are…
Innovation awards: Our annual prizes recognise successful innovators in eight categories. Here are this year’s winners
Nov 30th 2013 | From the print edition
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