1) You read about an entrepreneur: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance 
  • What surprised you the most?
The most surprising thing to me from what I read about Elon Musk is that he is a Stanford dropout, choosing to forego the rest of college in order to become basically an entrepreneur and utilize the internet for his ideas.

  • What about the entrepreneur did you most admire?
What I most admired about Elon Musk is that he has put profits 2nd in order to push true ingenuity and innovation at the forefront of his business ideas. He absolutely has made money from his ideas and a lot of it, but for the most part, these were after calculated risks he undertook to put himself in a successful position. He also hosted Meme Review which deserves plenty of praise.

  • What about the entrepreneur did you least admire?
What I least admired is nothing. There are some personal dings that he has but those types of issues hold true for a large number of people. I thought the book highlighted those but I did not personally have any negative feeling towards these things about Elon.

  • Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about it?
There were a lot of instances that Elon Musk had encountered adversity and even failure. One of these encounters was the issues he had with his Tesla Model 3, and the delayed production, defects, and all around bad publicity associated with this at the time latest model of Tesla cars.
2) What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited?

One competency that I noticed from Elon Musk is his visionary ability, and being able to see a problem and the solution for it.
3) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

One part of the reading that was confusing to me was why the board of the company kept removing Elon as CEO, then reinstalling him later on. They did not seem to agree about his competency but there was not enough to truly oust him permanently.
4) If you were able to ask two questions to the entrepreneur, what would you ask? Why?

One question I would ask Elon Musk is if he will host a second Meme Review because PewDiePie needs more subscribers.

The second question I would ask Elon Musk is how soon he estimates that humanity will have the capable technology to send a manned mission to Mars.
5) For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?

Elon Musk definitely appreciates hard work and does as much as he can to make his product worthwhile and successful. He has put in countless hours into his companies and does not sleep a lot every night.