I think I'm going to start giving a brief overview of some of our Board Members, in no particular order, but as I think of them, or find something interesting that they've done.
Starting with Elon Musk, who was the gracious host of this past Board Meeting, which I had the pleasure of attending.

Elon Musk, from South Africa, is a computer programer who came to fame and fortune by co-founding the online payment system PayPal. After PayPal was sold to eBay, Elon moved on to start and run several exciting companies. Elon is the CEO & Chief Technology Officer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of access to space ultimately by a factor of ten. SpaceX launched Falcon 1 into orbit on September 28, 2008, which was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket. They are also the preferred launch provider for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Elon will offer rides to anyone competing in the prize at cost, which is a great deal. One of my favorite parts of the Board meeting was getting a tour of the SpaceX facitility from Elon himself.
Elon is also the Chairman of Tesla Motors, a builder of electric vehicles. You've probably seen the sleek looking Tesla, either in person if you live in So. Cal., or floating around the Internet. It's a beautiful looking car. Tesla is planning to enter the Progressive Insurance Autmotive X PRIZE.

Elon is also the Chairman of Solar City, solar energy system design, financing, installation and related services.
2 comments:
I believe Elon sold PayPal to Ebay, not Google.
You're right, my mistake. I was reading http://www.googlelunarxprize.org as I was writing this. Guess I've just got Google on the brain!
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