A biography of Elon Musk, the South African born entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. The real-life inspiration for the }Iron Man{ series of films, Musk wants to save the planet and form a colony on Mars as well as making money. Charts his childhood as a bright kid who was bullied at school and abused by his father, to how he paid for his own way through university, to his early dot-com successes and his current status at the pinnacle of business success.