ABSTRACT

Multipreneurs, as all human beings, display personality traits and characteristics specific to their activities. The transition of an individual to entrepreneur starts with him as an incubating/nascent multipreneur and, at least from the point of view of his attributes and skills, he is at the stage of a specialist. This chapter discusses the brief story behind high-profile multipreneurs. Fueled by motivation and engaging the proper attributes and resources, the entrepreneur starts his business, fulfilling by himself at that time many of its functions such as promotion, accounting, customer and supplier relations. Born in South Africa, Elon Musk is probably the 'geekiest' of modern entrepreneurs, to use the slang term for technology entrepreneurs. With the profits he made, Elon created PayPal, offering online financial services and email payments. Elon was also involved in another venture at the time, Solar City, which was developing solar power systems.