憶往昔崢嶸歲月，看今朝潮起潮落，望未來任重而道遠(yuǎn)。
Summary
As the start-up life in Zip2 and PayPal hit?Musk hard, he decided to escape the incredibly lucrative rat race and began to?chase a bigger stage—space exploration . After failing to buy a missile from Russia, he?came up with the idea to build one. Then, SpaceX, a company aimed at the lower?end of the satellite market, was founded in June 2002 and came to life in humble?setting. It was to be America’s attempt at a clean slate in the rocket?business. Thanks to some of the start-up techniques learned in Silicon Valley?and a crew of bright, committed engineers. SpaceX finally saw the Falcon I?completed in 2006. But the energy smarts, and resourcefulness of the Space X?team still could not overcome their inexperience or the difficult conditions. The?launch of the Falcon I failed. Despite the fact that the company had been?chewing through his fortune at a worrying rate, Musk committed himself to seeing this thing through to the end.
Musk also had a passion for electric cars?and later invested in Tesla Motors. He saw the potential with a larger goal of?trying to end the United States’ addiction to oil. Designing and building a car?from the ground up comes with plenty of challenges. But a committed team finally?made prototype cars. The early success of prototype cars coupled with Tesla’s?engineering breakthroughs boosted the company’s confidence. And people rushed?to make orders. However, the problems mounted, as the whole team had enjoyed?the thrill of the engineering challenge over the beginning years but were?burnt-out beyond repair—as a result , lots of engineers left and worst of all , the company?was running out of money in 2018 .
Mice in Space和All Electric兩章讀完，兩章都是轟轟烈烈的奮斗史。找到一句詞，感覺概括這兩章是極好的—攜來百侶曾游，憶往昔崢嶸歲月稠。創(chuàng)業(yè)如此艱辛，兩章講的都是一幫激情飛揚(yáng)，懷揣夢(mèng)想的年輕人幾乎從零開始，書寫了執(zhí)著奮斗的篇章，其間充滿了汗水、失敗、沮喪和希望。我們會(huì)感慨世事維艱，每一點(diǎn)進(jìn)步背后有多少人的不懈付出。感慨懷揣共同夢(mèng)想的人所迸發(fā)出的無窮力量，例如在Space一章，常規(guī)三百人的團(tuán)隊(duì)也未必能完成的任務(wù)，三十人的團(tuán)隊(duì)極其高效得完成了。
SpaceX’s thirty-person team had real pluck?in the face of adversity and inspired everyone on the island .A traditional?three-hundred-person-strong aerospace launch crew would never have to tried to?fix a rocket like that on the fly .
通過這兩章，Musk的形象也更加豐滿。一方面，他對(duì)于未來趨勢(shì)的準(zhǔn)確把握和敏銳洞察，面對(duì)困難永不退縮，執(zhí)行過程中的不斷追求讓人印象深刻。但是另一方面，也能感受到他的強(qiáng)勢(shì)、不留情面，過于理性的痕跡。
Lyons came away with no illusions about?Musk’s personality but with the utmost respect for his vision and drive to execute.
People found Musk’s style aggressive …Some?people thought Elon was too tough or hot-tempered or tyrannical.
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這一章中有關(guān)精神、士氣之類的表達(dá)
發(fā)揮…精神Operate in the spirit of a silicon valley start-up .
發(fā)揮不屈不撓的精神put Space X’s relentless ethos into play .
鼓舞士氣the resultant mammoth government contractor held a picnic to boost?morale but ended up failing at ever this simple exercise.
本性使然：Bowing to his nature, Musk set an insanely ambitious timeline forall of this.
本章中最長(zhǎng)的一個(gè)單詞，可以學(xué)習(xí)下用連字符組合一個(gè)形容詞。palm-tree-and-vegetation-covered island would be transfored into their launchpad .?
