2008 Was The Worst Year Of Elon Musk's Life

Between scoring a contract to shuttle astronauts to the ISS, unveiling the latest model of the groundbreaking Tesla, and making ownership of solar power systems more affordable than ever before, to say that Elon Musk is having a good year would be a serious understatement. But just 6 years ago, things looked very different. Ross Anderson from Aeon writes: It was 2008, a year Musk describes as the worst of his life. Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy. Lehman had just imploded, making capital ha...