
How I Became the Real 'Iron Man'
Elon Musk gets the profile treatment in this entry from Bloomberg's "Risk Takers" series, tracing a career built on repeatedly betting against long odds. The film moves through PayPal, the online payments company Musk helped build and sell, before turning to Tesla, which it credits as America's first viable fully electric car company, and SolarCity, described as the country's biggest solar energy supplier. It closes on the harder bet still in progress: Musk's push to make commercial space travel routine within our lifetime. Rather than dwelling on any single company, the film treats Musk himself as the subject, a founder willing to sink his own money and reputation into industries that conventional wisdom said couldn't be disrupted, electric cars, solar power, and rockets among them. It is a compact business biography more than an origin story, built around the pattern in his choices rather than the mechanics of any one venture.