It’s been eclipsed by his subsequent entrepreneurial achievements, but Elon Musk has a banking background. Before he brought his talents to the U.S., he was going to school at Queens University in Canada while interning at Bank of Nova Scotia.
Biographer Ashlee Vance writes that while in the employ of one of Canada’s foremost financial institutions, Musk “had an inkling that the bankers were doing finance all wrong and that he could run the business better than anyone else.” Thought of another way, Musk learned a great deal in the presence of people from whom he learned very little.
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