Where does success come from? Is it hard work, or luck? We dive deep into biographies of remarkably successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and outliers - based on the philosophy of The Unfair Advantage Book.
Elon Musk is one of the most successful, provocative, and meme-able people in tech. With his achievements so vast, innovations so mind-blowing, and ability to prove the naysayers wrong so relentless, he's often accused, half-jokingly, of being an alien or robot. But, assuming he is a mere mortal, how on earth did Elon Musk become Elon Musk? What was his background? What was his upbringing like? What role, if any, did luck play in his success? Is there anything we can learn from him? Or is he just a one-in-a-billion outlier — a superhero figure? (I mean, he actually was the inspiration for Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man.) Find out how, after becoming a hundred-millionaire in his 20s, his life went downhill so badly that he was broke, so broke that he had to borrow money to pay for rent back in 2008. How was he able to crawl back up from the brink, from the edge of the abyss to his now meteoric rise to the top, in the process of disrupting multiple legacy trillion-dollar industries? Welcome to Success Decoded, a new series about the remarkably successful: the entrepreneurs, the ultra-achievers, the game-changers. I share with you their stories, attempt to decode the factors that made them successful, and what practical lessons we can learn from them to find our own success. This is the first episode of Success Decoded, a new super in-depth article and podcast series based on The Unfair Advantage book which I (Hasan Kubba) co-authored with the brilliant Ash Ali. Sign up to the newsletter: successdecoded.substack.com Connect with me: If you enjoy it, please share it and tag me on social media: linkedin.com/in/startuphasan instagram.com/startuphasan twitter.com/startuphasan The Unfair Advantage Book: https://theunfairadvantage.co.uk
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